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Old May 15, 2011 | 11:50 AM
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Today I was drive down the highway cruise set at 65, out of nowhere every hill I got to (even the slightest) it would either drop to 60 or 55, and stop there, never inbetween those speeds just those. This has never happened before.
 
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Old May 15, 2011 | 12:24 PM
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Mine does pretty much the same thing. Set the cruise at 70, and it will slow to 60-65 going up hills. It simply will NOT downshift either......

What tire size, and gears ya got?
 
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Old May 15, 2011 | 12:27 PM
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you might have a vac leak in the rubber hose on the cruise line. when it starts leaking, it won't hold speed.

cruise module is under the battery tray. on a jeep you have to remove the battery and tray. i'm not sure if you have to remove all this on a ram or not.

edit - then again - our trucks can be real pigs, and can't climb a hill worth a crap. also, the TPS figures into this, and a bad TPS won't accelerate up a hill with only moderate gas pedal pressure.
 

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