Hello everyone. I am new to this forum.

I have a 2003 Dodge Ram 2500 pickup with the 5.7 liter hemi magnum. It has 202,886 miles on it. Not sure if this is related - but, I had purchased some gasoline from a local convenience store and the next day (the day "Irma" hit the east coast) my truck died and would not restart. The tow truck driver said it sounded like I bought some gas with water in it. (He started the refineries in Texas pumped out all of there gas and the particular store I purchased the gas from receives there gas from these refineries). So I drained all the gas out and put in fresh full (different gas station - which supposedly does not receive its gas from Texas refineries), added some STP gas treatment and the truck still won't start. I pulled one of the spark plugs and it was dirty and wet.

My question: what do you think could be the cause of the continued no start? I am thinking of replacing the spark plugs but I want to be sure this is the issue and not the timing chain.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Miper

 

I would pull one plug from each cylinder and do a compression test first. Then go from there.