Yes the crank position sensor can cause the problems your having. If it the original sensor with lots of miles on it, it should be replaced.

 

I'm not sure if its the original or not, the motor is a replacement from another 95 ram 1500 and has around 160,000 miles I was told (dash says 221,xxx) also was told that the transmission had been rebuilt and had less then 20,000 miles on it when I bought it and had paperwork to prove it but its been 8 months and I have yet to see any paperwork and I continue to ask, but I know for sure the motor was replaced because its got the initials on it from the junkyard

 

Crank sensors are frequently victims of engine/trans swaps.....

 

Meaning??

 

they are very easy to smash when installing a heavy cast iron engine swinging around on a chain attached to an engine lift.

 

but it's been running fine for the last seven and a half months until I fried my computer, I change my distributor cap back to the old one and it still doing the same thing

 

I called my local Dodge dealership this morning and told them that I may need my computer flashed or reprogrammed they said they don't do neither all they do is change the VIN number and that it may or may not fix my problem

 

If you are working on a 95, there is no flashing anything. That is OBDI, and does not support flash programming. At all.

 

What are they talking about changing the VIN? Thats weird how just changing the VIN would do anything. But I have been reading that it could be the computer not set to my truck which would effect shifting, which I have to sometimes let off the gas for it to change to 4th (since computer change), I guess misfiring maybe because it slips around 55mph and if I'm at a consistent speed the slipping will continue untill I let off the gas or speed up, dodge told me it was $95 for them to change my VIN. I just don't have $95 to pay them and it not even fix it. I have no clue but I need my truck fixed

 

This has a nothing to do with the crank postion sensor.

Very rarely is the computer ever the problem. People jump to "it's the computer" becuas ethey domt understand how the whole system works.