Why is my truck loosing power and acceleration?

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Asked by rchabs23 Jan 29, 2016 at 01:36 AM about the 1998 Dodge RAM 1500 Laramie SLT Club Cab 4WD

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

I have a 1998 Dodge Ram 1500 5.9 liter. I can drive the truck, but when I start to accelerate, past 35-40 mph, it will start to rev higher and not accelerate. Almost like it is getting choked out, or is getting restricted. To the point where I have to let off the gas. I can't get past 40 mph. Then my "check engine" light comes on and stays on. I took it into Autozone to get the code read, and they said that it's saying that it has a miss fire in all of the cylinders. I had a tune up less than a year ago, and had all the plugs,wires distributer  and rotor replaced, my plugs look good, and the wires were on tight. I also just had my tranny serviced and they said that everything looked great, but were also concerned about the lack of power. Does anyone have any ideas, or can point me in the right direction thanks.

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This sounds like the catalytic converter is plugged. You can tell at night once it is all warmed up, pulling over & leave the motor run, then look in the dark at the converter to see it there is a orange glow to it. This would cause check engine light.

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My 97 Dodge Ram 1500 is losing power I let it run for about 15 minutes then it start losing power

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I have a 2004 Dodge Ram 1500 quad cab 4.7 in my trucks bogging down to whatever I can drive 30 to 40 miles an hour after that it bogs down and I took off my catalytic converter and it's still doing it why would it do it still

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My 2001 dodge ram 4x4 5.2l will randomly loose power. And by this i mean i will be driving down the road and all of the sudden i will loose throtle response. My foot will be on the pedal but the truck spits and sputers. As if its trying to gain power but cant get any. Please help

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