Hello. I’m lost with this I am reaching out in the hopes that someone might have an idea what’s wrong with my car. I recently got a Dodge Ram 50 from someone for really cheap and all it needed was a clutch. I put a new clutch in and everything was great for a couple weeks. One day, I go to work and when I try to leave, it won’t start. Some passerby helped me start it. I’m not really sure what he did, he was sticking a screwdriver in the area where the throttle and choke components are. I then proceeded to drive home and noticed that it felt like the car had less power, the gas was less responsive. When I stopped at a traffic light and started to takeoff again the car stalled and then wouldn’t start again. I left it there for a few hours and when I came back to try to start it again, it was able to start but the engine sounded terrible and would only stay running if I was holding the gas down. I then pushed it home to mess with it later. I was able to get it to start again a couple days later but it would want to die unless I continue to hold the gas down. However, once it warmed up, it would stay running. When I tried to start it again though the next day, it wouldn’t start no matter what I did and this is where I’m at now.
It appears to be getting fuel fine (Sprays into the carburetor when I tap the gas and shoots out of the fuel pump line when I crank) and sparking fine(I tested each plug they all Spark), just no start. I have replaced the spark plugs which were rather dark and put on new wires because one broke when I was removing them. Also, I thought my coil was bad and put a new one in but it made no difference.
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