1990 dodge dakota stalled and oil light came on


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dawn28304
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Apr 5, 2008, 6:55 PM

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I have a 1990 dodge dakota with about 121,000 miles on it. I just replaces all plugs and wires, oil cylinoid valve, drivers side vavle cover gasket, cat converter, muffler, tailpipe, did a fuel flush,an engine flush, changed the oil three days ago and adjusted the idle. Today I was driving it at around 45 miles per hour and the whole truck just shut off and the oil light came on. When i tried to start it it wouldn't start, it took five tries of me being in the middle of the road to get it going again. It is runnig sluggish and to be honest that scared the crude out of me. I am not sure what happened and I really don't want it to happen again. it is still idleing rough and I don't know what to do. on occasion when I go from a higer speed to a lower speed it wants to shut off. please help me

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SMPL17
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Apr 8, 2008, 7:22 AM

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How much oil is in the engine? An oil light coming on is wicked bad but except for that unfortunately beats me. Some bolts not tight enough so loosing compression? Service engine soon light?

Tom Greenleaf
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Apr 8, 2008, 7:53 AM

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Certainly check the oil level. Light would come on with it stalling so that's inconclusive for now. This could be several things but I suspect there is a vacuum leak causing this problem and something may have been disturburbed by mistake or broke in checking air filter or something common to check at oil change intervals,

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way2old
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Apr 8, 2008, 10:40 AM

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Did the oil light come on before or after the engine died? If it came on after the engine died, that would be considered normal as all the instrument lights should come on. Did you change the distributor cap and rotor when you changed the plugs and wires? The dying could possibly be related to the idle speed control system somewhere. Please answer the above questions and we can zero in on this.

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