Texas/New Mexico Stateline | Last summer, 1998 Dodge fell on its face one morning. Didn't have enough power to pull the hat off your head. Overheating. After some stewing around about it ( I was about 15 miles from home at my parents house) reading the internet determined it might be the catalytic converter stopped up.
I unhooked the header pipes to see how it ran, and it ran good. So I just drove home.
DON'T DO THAT, EVER!
Melted vacuum lines behind the engine and messed up the 4wd engagement that is troublesome anyway. I spent a good afternoon replacing some of those lines and now I think that is fixed.
But now I am having trouble with the park lights. It is blowing a fuse, and I suspect there is a short there beside the engine/exhaust/starter area. I noticed working under there it melted some insulation on a wiring harness. Of course it is in the most impossible place on that whole vehicle to get to.
I am thinking I may have to take the wheel off and cut a section out of the wheel well to really get to it and find out what is going on.
What a mess. |
Don't ever unhook header pipes and drive that way. Dodge pickup
