hey guys i own a 98 ram with only 128,000km on it and am having a stalling problem when i back out of a spot or when i come up toi a corner to idle last weekend i removed the throttle body and cleaned it and the top of the plenum. I also replaced the pcv valve. when i had the tb off i checked the inside of the plenum and there was a very little oil sitting in the valley pan. My covertor also sounds like the honeycomb is loose inside of it too so i am saving for that cause it costs like 400 dollars ffs. Anyways any ideas would be a huge help thanks guys

Chuuch

 

Did you pull the IAC valve, and clean out it's cavity in the TB? Did you disconnect the battery while you were working on stuff?

If your cat is clogging... that may be a cause as well. Do you have emissions testing there?

You should be able to get an aftermarket cat for a LOT less than 400 bucks.......

 

+1... and when the TB was off did you use a small mirror to look all around inside the intake?

 

yes i took every thing off and cleaned it with mopar carb cleaner

 

Did you disconnect the battery while doing so?

 

yeah did that too and there was barley any in there, no we dont have emission testing here either but i need to keep the truck quiet because i work nights and i dont enjoy bacon following me home lol. But I thought you could only get the oem convetor because of the oxygen senosor in the cat??? and thanks for the replys guys

 

no i dont think i did disconnect the battery when i did it either but the truck ran fine for awhile it just developed this problem all of a sudden.

 

Try disconnecting the battery for a few minutes, and let the PCM reset all the base values on it's sensors, see if that helps.

Magna-flow makes direct fit cats four our trucks. (and they flow better than stock as well.) There is also an "off road" y-pipe, that has no cat.... but, does have the bungs for the two O2 sensors. (probably need to do the non-fouler trick on the rear O2, to avoid setting a code.)

It's possible that the IAC motor is just bad...... if cleaning/resetting doesn't cut the mustard, might wanna just replace it.

 

okay do you guys know if putting a v8 throttle body on a v6 makes any difference

 

Not sure there is any difference.....

Might wanna test your TPS as well....