Handymanfig
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- Ram Year
- 1998
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- 3.9
I have a 98 Dodge Ram 1500. Its my everyday truck and I only drive it's about an hour a day. Has about 200,000 miles on it and I've tried to do the general maintenance. It starts up even in this deep freeze Chicago weather but it takes awhile to start. Lately the car stalls while I am driving. I pop it into neutral and it'll start up again after several attempts. Also on these cold days it takes about 15 minutes for me to start it. it'll start/stall out and repeat for 10 minutes until I can finally get it to idle. I've changed the air filter, the oil, flushed the antifreeze, need an added fuel additives for winter performance. Also the heater does not work. The engine has to heat up for awhile before I get any residual heat through the vent. during the summer I had no problem starting it up so I'm pretty sure its a cold related problem but I would appreciate if somebody could point me in the right direction