looking for some info for a friend

[67newport]

he has a 1995 dodge 2500 4x4 360 that is supposed used to haul firewood from his woods down to his house. i believe it quit running last year and has not run since, he but a couple hundred $$ in to it over the summer and still will not run. he believes it is ignition related. his question is can these engines be converted over to carburated with a point distributor or are the heads to different that they will not take a carbureted intake manifold? he done this before his 90 f150 w/300 engine.

 

[70bigblockdodge]

he has a 1995 dodge 2500 4x4 360 that is supposed used to haul firewood from his woods down to his house. i believe it quit running last year and has not run since, he but a couple hundred $$ in to it over the summer and still will not run. he believes it is ignition related. his question is can these engines be converted over to carburated with a point distributor or are the heads to different that they will not take a carbureted intake manifold? he done this before his 90 f150 w/300 engine.

Yes, most likely one of the stupid hall effect sensors in the dizzy/can sensor, or the really fun to get to top right of the bell housing/crank sensor. If you crank it and put a scan tool on it and it reads one or the other it's probably both, ask me how I know. If it were me and just a farm truck I would convert it. You can drop it a points dizzy, buy a electric fuel pump and graft a carburetor on the 2 bbl holes on top of that POS intake (that probably has a vacuum leak on the bottom) and get it running for less than you will have in the crank and cam sensor.
Good luck, the frame will break next at the front leaf spring hangers, have fun hope he gets his wood hauled.
Heads are different bolt angle, not hard to drill and tap for correct LA bolt angle.
P.S. should have kept the 300 6 cyl Ford.

 

[67newport]

hope he gets his wood hauled.

P.S. should have kept the 300 6 cyl Ford.

he still has the ford but its a 2whl drive use it when its not to muddy even with chains. he rarely get rid of woods truck i think there are 5 or 6 of them. when they get to bad for the road they become a woods truck.

 

[Xenon]

Is there a way to convert a
mid to late 90's V6 to a dizzy and a carb....?

 

[Slap Stick]

There are carb intakes made for the Magnum V6/8s but they arent cheap.
The kegger intake is actually better on the bottom end than the aftermarket.
As stated earlier there is probably a sensor that is bad or the fuel pump is crap.
Do the key dance and read the codes on the dash. Hopefully it threw the fault codes and you'll know exactly whats wrong.

 

[70bigblockdodge]

Is there a way to convert a
mid to late 90's V6 to a dizzy and a carb....?

If the dizzy is the same dimensions as a V8 I suppose you could put slant six innards on top and cap (I think they have same dimensions as V8 cap) @halifaxhops could say for sure. Manifold is the problem along with bolt angle.

 

[67newport]

are the 318 & 360 distributors the same?

 

[halifaxhops]

Not sure ion the V6 distributors, but a 318/340/360 are the same size different curves. Not sure of the innards of them but probably a HAL effect distributor. Have to look it up and see.

 

[halifaxhops]

Wait v6 or V8? V8 yes easily.

 

[twostick]

Is he sure the fuel pump didn't quit?

Kevin

 

[70bigblockdodge]

Is he sure the fuel pump didn't quit?

Kevin

Those ignition systems are a nightmare. For those of us in the rust belt the screws break that hold the dist. cap on so even if you wanted to change the $$$$$ hall effect sensor you end up changing $$$$$$$$$ dist for a woods/farm truck. Everyone of these trucks that sit a lot the hall effects, **** the bed, exactly what you don't want from a farm truck.
Yes the fuel pump takes a beating sitting for long periods, it is actually the easiest to check, push the schrader valve in on the rail. The no pulse at the coil is easy also, but that only leads you back to the $$$$ hall effect sensors that are a PITA to diag which one, especially when a magnetic sensor takes 30 seconds to diag. A magnetic sensor was good enough to do literally billions upon billions of miles and time. In Chrysler electronic ignitions and other makes that continued to use magnetics after MPFI became widespread, so.....
Lastly would just like to say thanks to the engineering group that decided the more complicated sensor is the way to go.

Rant off

 

[WissaMan]

To test if it's a fueling issue, it should kick over and run for a few seconds if you spray starter fluid in the intake, shouldn't it? I had a late 90's Taurus that one day decided not to start. It would start and run as long as you were spraying starter fluid into the throttle body. I assumed it was a failed fuel pump but I junked the car so never actually found out