94 1500 dies when warm

My 1994 Dodge Ram 1500 is making me crazy. I can not figure it out. About 3 years ago pops took it in for a trans rebuild.

When it was done the shop called and said come pick it up. Some how it was broken and dad PAIED for the trans and brought home a busted truck.

I spent some time trying to figure it out with no luck then I took it to my buddy's shop and He worked on it off and on for a month before giving up. Now Im back screwing with it. @mech1nxh

It fires up fine. Runs and idels fine. Twenty minutes or so and it starts to stumble bad and will eventually die. By playing with the throttle pedal i can nurse it back to the shop but it is not happy.

So. No check engine light, no codes.

Just about all sensors are new. (Im not saying they all work, just that most have been replaced.)

Fuel pressure is good.


I have never been beaten by a vehicle but im starting to fear this may be the first time....

Any ideas or advice would be great! Thank you for your time and advice.


Check the distributor. There’s is a piece under the cap that takes a crap. It’s only a few bucks and I’m sorry I don’t know the exact name of that piece.


A guy I used to work with had a Grand Cherokee with a 318 that would not start when warm... For some reason he found that if he kept a spray bottle with water and sprayed the distributor, it would start... He eventually found a problem in the distributor, but I can't remember exactly what it was...

They may not have proppped the engine correctly when they removed the trans to fix it and the distributor hit/leaned on the firewall and screwed something up in there while they had the trans out and the distributor was supporting the weight of the engine....