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I have an 02 Ram 1500 with the gas 5.9L. When I go around corners my truck will stop accelerating as I start to come out of of the corner. It revs up a little and then will take off again. At first I thought it was probably low on tranny fluid but I checked that and it is right where it should be. I did notice that the problem started around the time I was using 4x4 this past winter, so my friend said it could possibly be something in the differential. I just thought I would see if anyone had any ideas before I started tearing stuff apart.
Do you know if they adjusted the bands as well? Checking fluid in neutral? (park gives an artificially high reading.) May just be an electronics problem..... Maybe....
It’s been doing it for a while, but I don’t know for sure how long. It is getting more common though. The other thing I just remembered is that it has died two different times when I turned a corner in a parking lot and stopped halfway through the turn.
That's gonna be fun to find. For the time being, treat it as two separate problems. I would be REAL tempted to drop the pan, and see what the filter looks like.