2003 ram won't slips in 2nd gear!

2003 ram slips bad in 2nd gear!

01-09-2008, 01:32 AM

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2003 ram slips bad in 2nd gear!

It hasn't stranded me...yet. I suppose the stress of adding a 62/14 turbo and running on "performance" aka, level 2 of my tripledog for the past 3k miles has put a hurt on my probably stock 48re. i bought the truck with 96k miles on it and it seems to shift gears fine, it just revs and shifts mushy on the 1-2 shift. Converter still locks up tight, still hauls butt in first gear. I just hotrodded it a bit the other day and it hasn't felt right since. All i did was some full throttle auto downshifts,while passsing other traffic, torquemanagemnt was fully enabled, and it has amsoil in the tranny. I havent overheated it either. The thing just revs the engine without accelerating the truck in 2nd gear. I used manula override 2nd to check it out and all other gears work fine. Help! I don't want to destroy my tranny just yet! I have taken care to granny-drive it with the exttra power to save fuel. My truck is 4x4. Could it be a shift solenoid going out?

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2003 ram 2500 4x4 quad cab, short box, Dick Cepek FC II 35 12.50 17's, 3:73 gears, FASS 150/150, HTT HTB2 62/14, 48re auto,tripledog with outlook, Banks Monster single 4" exhaust, homebuilt ram air, amsoil ea airfilter, amsoil bypass oil filter,106k miles plus!

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