Top 10 1997 Dodge Ram 1500 Club Cab Questions & Answers

I also have a 97 Ram that did the same thing. First thing to do is add a trans cooler and remove the rubber lines at the radiator. If you feel the truck takes off in 2nd gear you need to replace the transducer and governor pressure switch inside the trans pan on the pass side of the valve body.

mine is doing the same thing, what i found out is that if you put one hane on it, on the opposite top rear corner and as you are pulling down also pull towards the other corner, in other words, sitting in the drivers seat you will place your hand on the top of the console between the pass. seat and the console, now put pressure on the con by pulling it toward yourself, now down at the same time.

I have a 97 ram 1500 with the same thing 45-50 OD kicks in and it would start bucking unless you turned off the overdrive and for me the problem was powerloss due to the injecters, i pulled them off and 2 were 100% clogged. if you clean your injecters be sure to sprey from the bottom to blow out the dirt/rust out of the top to be sure you are not just jamming everything further into the injecters, every easy fix took me a lil over a hour 4 bolts hold the injecter rail in and each injecter has a clip that holds them in after you remove the click carefuly turn the injecter side to side while pulling on them to remove from the fuel rail,then use a pick to pull out the large amout of dirt/rust out of the top of the injecters then you will need to use something to get power to the injecter to open it up, i took 2 pieces of wire with flat ends on then pluged the wires into the injecter the hooked the other side of the wire to the battery, if you do not hear a click sound when u hook to the battery then the injecter is bad, after you hear the click use a cleanning spay and spray from the bottom of the injecter so that the spray comes out the top, after all injecters are clean put them back on the motor, just to be sure all the rubber bushing are on the injecters there are 2 on each injecter 1top 1 bottom, i used a light amount of lube on the rubber seals to put them back in.took it for a test drive and had twice the power and the bucking had stopped. i hope this helps

Under hood, center, rear engine area, mounted on rear passenger side of engine im guessing i would need to know what engine?this is based v8 5,2 2 wheel drive

Here is a diagram af a 1997 dodge Ram 1500 for either the 5.2 or 5.9 liter V-8 engines.

Look at fuse #18, a 15 amp fuse, in the fuse block. This fuse powers both the tail lights and instrument cluster lights. Usually both of these light systems are powered by the same fuse so when your cluster isn't lit up you'll know right away that your tail lights aren't working as it's not safe to drive without tail lights. Your brake, turn, and head lamps are powered by different circuits. Hope this helps and good luck!

THERE IS NO HEATER CONTROL VALVE ON THE WATER HOSES. NEW HEATER CORE. INLET LINE right before heater core hot, outlet after core look warm. Burped cooling system 5 times with engine at operating temp. Installed homade burp VALVE right after heater core outlet(high part of hose). Still no heat. Removed water pump, impeller still in good shape not stripped off shaft. Removed heater core hoses flushed water thrue the connections on the block to the water pump INLET and outlet. flushed water thrue heater core and hoses. Going to put it back togeter today. Used known good gauge to check water temp for operating temp in test. 195 f

Not sure of your engine size so please pick the appicable diagram:

2.5L Engine Firing Order: 1-3-4-2 Distributor Rotation: Clockwise

3.9L Engine Firing Order: 1-6-5-4-3-2 Distributor Rotation: Clockwise

5.2L and 5.9L Engines Firing Order: 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2 Distributor rotation: Clockwise

The alternator needs to be removed to easily access and locate coolant temperature sensor.For more details and ECT diagram on 2001 dodge ram click the link below and follow the details to replace the coolant sensor:-----

http://technoanswers.blogspot.com/2012/10/dodge-coolant-temperature-sensor.html
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These details will help.
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