We bought a 97 Dodge Dakota SLT with the 318 in it. After already dumping 1200 bucks into the front end, we're now facing 2 issues.
First of all, the truck has a really hard time staying running in the morning until it's warmed up. We replaced the unit on the back of the throttle body ( for the life of me I can't remember what it's called) and also did a full tune up with plugs, cap and rotor and still dies in the morning if it doesn't warm up for about 5 minutes. Is there a cold start sensor of some kind to set the fuel/air/choke? Or any other possibilities?
Second problem is, it has the automatic but and the tranny shifts fine and doesn't slip at all but on the end of the gear shifter, I'm pretty sure there should be a button to push to turn the overdrive off/on and there's a little round plate covering it up so you can't push it. Really not sure what to do about that one. That plate on there tells me there had to be something wrong with shifting into overdrive. It still shifts into OD just fine but we can't turn it off cruising through town so when you hit the 40 mph range, it goes into OD and turns into a dog. Any ideas on this one? Any common problems with those transmissions?
Any and all help will be appreciated. We bought this for my son for his first rig and now he's not real happy bout the whole deal.
First of all, the truck has a really hard time staying running in the morning until it's warmed up. We replaced the unit on the back of the throttle body ( for the life of me I can't remember what it's called) and also did a full tune up with plugs, cap and rotor and still dies in the morning if it doesn't warm up for about 5 minutes. Is there a cold start sensor of some kind to set the fuel/air/choke? Or any other possibilities?
Second problem is, it has the automatic but and the tranny shifts fine and doesn't slip at all but on the end of the gear shifter, I'm pretty sure there should be a button to push to turn the overdrive off/on and there's a little round plate covering it up so you can't push it. Really not sure what to do about that one. That plate on there tells me there had to be something wrong with shifting into overdrive. It still shifts into OD just fine but we can't turn it off cruising through town so when you hit the 40 mph range, it goes into OD and turns into a dog. Any ideas on this one? Any common problems with those transmissions?
Any and all help will be appreciated. We bought this for my son for his first rig and now he's not real happy bout the whole deal.