On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Joe E Thomson wrote:
> My dad was driving down the freeway, going about 75, in his 1996 Ram Van
> with the 5.2 V8 and the auto tranny. The check engine light came on, and
> he was low on gas. He coasted for about a minute or two, but upon
> realizing there was still gas, he accelerated. At about 35mph, he could
> here the engine laboring a lot harder than usual, on level road. It
> sounded as if he was going uphill towing a 5,000lb. trailer, floored.
> What are some of the possible things that could have gone wrong? Thank
> you for trying to help me with this matter.
I'm not sure what may have gone wrong, but if you check the codes,
it should narrow it down for you. Since its a '96, the key on-off
method should work as described here:
http://www.cs.fredonia.edu/~stei0302/www/dakota/codes
Once you get the codes, plug 'em into the form on that page, and that
should help you to narrow down the cause of the problem.
-Jon-
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