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OK more info is needed please, you put in a new motor was it a rebuild or a used motor from another truck? if so what year? what old parts were reused on this new motor if any.
im no electrician i bouth the adapter to plug into the end of the plug wire to hook a mutimeter to it and alls i got was lit up trying to find what setting to put it .......
WTF???? OK. how do I start.....a multimeter will not work to measure the spark. The amplitude is too high and the duration is too low for a multimeter to measure. In English, a multimeter (owned by a non-electrician, and even most electricians) will not measure high enough voltage range. The spark is a very short duration and is gone before the average multimeter can read it (unless you have a very fast "peak hold" function.
Search for "weak spark" thread for a number of ideas to check. Do not get "lit up" doing this. There are a number of opinions about "old school" and other methods, and I will not debate which is best. Just be careful and read the threads.
And +1 on checking crank sensor and fuel pressure.
I have 94 dodge with 318 did something similar. would start and run in park or nuetral fine. Put it in gear would go just off idle and anything more on the throttle would spit and sputter, barley pull itself. New plugs, wires, coil, cap, rotor, temp sensor, crank sensor, same thing. Bought a 40 dollar fuel pressure gauge and stuck on it, I had 25psi at turn of the key, would start it up would drop down below 20psi while idling. Would drop even farther when driving it, supposed to over 40psi all the time. replaced fuel pump and have not had a problem since. Find a fuel pressure gage and see where you are at.