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My 1999 Dodge Dakota R/T with problems.?
I am the only owner of this truck and I've had the rear main seal go out twice. Also the transmission doesn't want to engage quickly enough. I have a check engine light on all the time. lastly, I think it may be burning oil. I keep good oil pressure most of the time but occasionally, especially when stopping quickly, it just drops off to nothing. Any help out there?
4 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Okay, zero oil pressure is not good to your engine... Well, same thing happened to me before. I have a 318(5.2L) Dodge Ram, and your R/T should be 360(5.9L), but the construction of engine is pretty much the same push-rod V8.
The cause of "sudden zero-oil-pressure" at stop or 'when I shake the engine' was because of "sludge on oil pick up screen." I believe you got the same oil pick up... and you gotta clean it up ASAP.
Apparently, Chrysler's 318/360 engines are known to create lots of sludge, so I'm pretty sure that you have sludge issue.
I've done this "cleaning" twice, and before last time I put the oil-pan back, I had missed putting silicon on gasket at some spot, and a lil dirt got into the pan, and those dirt+bit of sludge again clogged the oil-pick up screen. Make sure that your oil pan gasket is fit and siliconed enough.
Well, because you are not getting oil pressure, you may have damaged piston-rings or valve-seals, that is making your engine to burn oil.
Secondary, your transmission. If it is an Automatic, Chrysler's Automatic on Ram and Dakota are known to have "valve-body" issue, which does not keep the fluid pressure on top of transmission. You may want to check on that also. (well, I had the same problem with my Dodge Ram).
Good luck, and check up your oil sump screen ASAP. Dakato R/T is a very nice truck
- 1 decade ago
In regards to the oil I had a 99 Durango RT with a 5.9 that sucked all the oil out past the intake manifold gasket. I to ran into no oil pressure after a stop because there was not enough oil to cover the pump pickup in the pan. After some research...I found that the intake manifold gasket is a real issue on the 99-02 5.9's.........Good Luck
- Anonymous5 years ago
If it tends to do it more when it's cold or when you first start using it during the day, change the Transmission Fluid. Dodge transmissions are notorious for not shifting out when the fluid becomes weak. There could be other issues but if the issues occur as I suggested then a fluid change may be the cure all.
