1985 Dodge Diplomat - Answered Questions & Fixed issues

Follow air box tube.... You'll see alluminum or plastic (I'm not sure) piece with throttle cables attached... Thats your TB (hence the name). I’m happy to assist further over the phone at https://www.6ya.com/expert/josh_8f8ad0a8f7e0e6d3

Disconnect the negative battery terminal. Remove the horn pad on the steering wheel-Phillips head screws from the back side of wheel. Then loosen the nut on the steering wheel center. Mark the steering wheel to column shaft position, so the wheel goes back in exact same position on the shaft. You may need a steering wheel puller to get the wheel off the shaft, not always, but sometimes the wheel is on pretty tight. Do not hammer on the wheel to get it off, use a puller if needed. These pullers are at parts stores and not expensive.

Doors also can be jammed by objects that have been placed on the dash and have disappeared down the defroster ducts. The cure here is to extract the object from the plenum by fishing through the heater outlet with a coat hanger or magnet - or removing the plenumGod bless you

Doors also can be jammed by objects that have been placed on the dash and have disappeared down the defroster ducts. The cure here is to extract the object from the plenum by fishing through the heater outlet with a coat hanger or magnet - or removing the plenum.God bless you

Common hand tools.

Hole in radiator hose or radiator.

This problem is caused by bad electric choke, or improperly adjusted choke. The Electronic Fuel Control system, as well as EGR, don't come into play until the thing's warmed up. Check the electric choke and its adjustment, also check the choke control on the right rear of the intake, and the charge temp sensor adjacent to the choke control, just in front of the distributor.

1985?? more like the carb idle jets need cleaning

Sounds like wireing... Check your grounds and positive at your starter.. Start there good luck

Unfortunately you're going to need an experienced differential mechanic to set up the new gears. The end play and gear backlash must be within thousandths of an inch or at best you'll have a noisy whining gear set, and at worst it'll destroy the gears in no time.

Make sure your coolant level is full first. Next, change your coolant sensor. It is located near the thermostat housing. When this condition happens 9 out of 10 times it's the coolant sensor malfunction or low coolant level! Good luck!

Make sure it's on before pressing the cruise control button.
If it's on, then check the vacuum control for the cruise control, and verify the cable is intact.
Check the wires and connections to the electronic module for the cruise control.
Is the speedometer cable operating the speedometer correctly, if so equipped?

I hope this helps.

Check your heater control valve. It is vacuum operated. your heater hoses conect to it.

short in fuse box or wires. need eletrical work.

#1 cyl on any v6 or v8 is the cyl that is closet to the front of the engine. if you look at the engine sideways you will notice one valve cover is ofset a little bit . the one most forward is no 1.
on a four cyl it is usualy the furthest from the tranny end but not always

check fuses

Check timing and then look to the carburetor (a carb rebuild may be in order). Sometimes the distributor can get loose and slip and can also cause this behavior. Distributor could use a rebuild if it hasn't been.

open up the fuel filter and turn the key to accessory, it should pump out gas, if not. then check to make sure your getting 12v to the pump. if so and not getting fuel out of the line. the pump is bad

It should be hooked up to the trans follow it

you should pick up a manual for your car as it will have the information you will need and diagrams for other work you would like to do to it.