I have a 2001 Dodge 2500 5.9 gas 5 spd. I was driving it at 60 mph, with cruise set, it made a noise and shut off, and hasn't started yet. I have 130 psi on every cylinder, 45 pounds of fuel pressure, and spark. I checked timing and it is on. I have new cap and rotor and plug wires. swapped out cam and crank sensor, for no reason, because it didn't help, and put old ones back on. Looking for some ideas on what to try next. I have heard of flywheels cracking, and then the crank sensor doesn't read correctly, but can that happen with a 5spd?

 

Shouldn't happen with a manual...... Are you getting GOOD spark? If so, then need to verify you are getting injector pulse.....

 

I am getting spark but not sure how good it is, trying to test coil now. I haven't verified injector pulse, but it wont start on starting fluid either.

 

Plugs

 

changed when i did cap ant rotor 7 months ago

 

What plugs did you put in?

 

In past jobs we would get cars in in the hook quite often, because they wouldn't start. A set of plugs would take care of quite a few of them this in the past days of carbs, first days of fuel injection.
plugs get flooded, gas fouled, and no amount of cleaning would fix them. Run into this on small engines all the time. All brands of machines, all brands of plugs.

Now get this... Surprised the hell out of me too. 2020 F150 with their 5.0 V8. 4,8xx miles from new (not a misprint) came in at current job as a no start. Started going down the rabbit hole, no codes, tried ether and would occasionally fire like once just as I let off of the key.
Took a fuel sample right off the rail and let the sample sit overnight on the bench. Came in the next morning, checked for spark. (Pulled coil off front cylinder, stuck a new plug off the shelf in it and it sparked like crazy. Pulled plug from that cylinder, repeated test and plug was glazed, shiney black but no spark.
Put in a set of plugs thinking "no way", thinking this was the result of something else but in that condition they needed to come out. What the hell, kit the key. It starts right up.
This truck is at a state facility where either idles around grounds and sits running a lot more than it should, crazy number of hours vs the miles but way less than what is on them when they usually need plugs. Like around 1000 hours which for most people that would put the n in 30-40k miles. Most vehicles today don't need plugs by even that miles anymore. Surprised the hell out of me. But true. Happened about a month ago. So saying you put plugs in "7 months ago" means nothing. Same with other parts put in "then" especially in today's world of ****ty quality parts.

 

How many miles on the engine? If the timing chain has jumped a tooth or two, NOT broken, it can be off just enough to not start.

 

ngk zfr6f are the plugs i put in it.

 

I just checked for spark again and I have it at the coil, but not the distributor. Maybe I got a bad distributor pick up?