Help on best options!!!!

movinalong · Jun 10, 2014

I'm purchasing an 88 dodge ram 150 sc/sb auto with a 318. The guy said the carb is no good. The truck is a long way from my house so I was planning on taking a manifold and carb with me. Any suggestions will be welcome an very helpful on what the best products to purchase.

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rusties93LE · Jun 10, 2014

Edelbrock intake/600 cfm carb, intake gasket kit,t-stat & housing, rubber fuel line and clamps...

crazzywolfie · Jun 11, 2014

since it is a 88 with 318 it should be TBI and NOT CARBED. big difference but look the same

dodge dude94 · Jun 11, 2014

^Unless someone converted it over to carb...which might be the case since it doesn't run.

crazzywolfie · Jun 11, 2014

could be but people always confuse the 2 since they do both look similar but there is a huge difference.

movinalong · Jun 11, 2014

Ok if it's tbi it should be easy to convert it tho right just need a fuel pressure regulator?

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movinalong · Jun 11, 2014

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movinalong · Jun 11, 2014

Those are the picks I got

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crazzywolfie · Jun 11, 2014

that is a carb so someone must have converted it. i would wonder if the issue was with the wiring

movinalong · Jun 11, 2014

I dono but it's a 500 mile round trip for me I'd like to see if it'd run before I drug it home. He said it had been running until about 2 months ago

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crazzywolfie · Jun 11, 2014

pour a bit of gas down the carb and it should fire up.

movinalong · Jun 11, 2014

Cool thanks for your help. You seem to know are those engines worth a head an cam swap or should I just look into other options?

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crazzywolfie · Jun 11, 2014

as long as there is nothing wrong with the heads you should probably just leave them be. i don't think you will really find better head for them unless you want to spend way more money on the engine than it is worth. now changing the cam might make a bit of a difference but i think a cam for that engine might be a bit more expensive since i am pretty sure 88 was the first year they started using roller cams in the trucks.

movinalong · Jun 11, 2014

Well the truck I've been buying parts for is an 11 with a hemi an while old it's still mopar. Everything is high lol.

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movinalong · Jun 11, 2014

Can you recommend a good site where I can look up things like that? I'm lost on older mopar stuff

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crazzywolfie · Jun 11, 2014

i am not really sure of the best place to get a cam for them roller engines. i think you can get reground cams but still not sure. not too familiar with the later LA engines. i think you might be able to use a cheaper cam with the later engine but i think you would have to change push rods since i think push rods got shorter when they switched to roller cams.

dodge dude94 · Jun 11, 2014

Probably just start searching Summit. Just need to make sure you have a roller engine or not.

movinalong · Jun 11, 2014

I was wondering that was 88 a cross over year like 1/2 tbi roller 1/2 old school or something?

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crazzywolfie · Jun 12, 2014

kind of. 88 was the first year that the 318's were TBI and i am pretty sure it was the first year that roller cams were used. the only engine that stayed carb was the 360 but it was converted to TBI in 89

movinalong · Jun 12, 2014

Does that mean it could possibly be a 360?

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