Ram 1500 Having Issues
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Ram 1500 Having Issues
Hi I am currently a new member to the forum and was seeking some advice or help. I own an 04 Ram 1500 Hemi 4x4 with around 124k miles. I was driving home normally one day from work and truck started driving odd; dying at stoplights and stop signs, bogging down while accelerating from a stop or with a load, and the sound of a misfire. Popped a code for the IAT sensor so I cleaned it off and code went away and was replaced with an O2 sensor code. I proceed to change that also until yet another code popped for Cylinder 5 misfire. I went ahead and checked the sparkplug, which had fuel on it so I changed the fuel injector and all 18 sparkplugs cause they were worn also, runs a little better but still nothing changed. The misfire sound is on the opposite side of the engine where the flooded sparkplug was, so I thought it could be a plugged Cat cause back pressure on the valve, cat was clean so another option out. I checked the vacuum lines to look for a hole, took a pressure valve to the fuel rail and looked all good, took oHms readings of all coilpacks and EGR valve. Decided to bite the bullet and take it to a local shop to where they said it had a bad pushrod (on the misfire side) and that that was the only thing they found and that they never seen anything like this. I wanted my truck back to figure it out myself instead of blowing money on a shop that took too long before I need to go back to work. Today I unplugged an upstream O2 sensor and ran the truck to see if it would run worse and didn't change at all. So I changed out that one also. Yet again, truck runs a little better than before but still no solution to the problem. If you have any suggestions please comment where any advice is much appreciated.
Thank you
-KT
Thank you
-KT
Last edited by KTBlake; 07-02-2018 at 02:56 PM.
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