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Engine loses power randomly

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Hey guys,

So I have a Ram 1500 Big Horn with about 60K miles on it and sometimes the engine will lose power. It rarely happens, but when it does, I'm unable to accelerate and need to pull over to turn the truck off and on again. Once I turn the truck back on, it works fine. Like today, I was accelerating to get onto the freeway and could feel the engine losing power. If I press on the gas pedal nothing really happens. But once I pulled over and restarted the truck it was fine.

I tried to recreate the issue with no luck. No warnings show on the computer either. Sometimes when it happens, I will lose Power steering and brakes.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thank you,
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Hey guys,

So I have a Ram 1500 Big Horn with about 60K miles on it and sometimes the engine will lose power. It rarely happens, but when it does, I'm unable to accelerate and need to pull over to turn the truck off and on again. Once I turn the truck back on, it works fine. Like today, I was accelerating to get onto the freeway and could feel the engine losing power. If I press on the gas pedal nothing really happens. But once I pulled over and restarted the truck it was fine.

I tried to recreate the issue with no luck. No warnings show on the computer either. Sometimes when it happens, I will lose Power steering and brakes.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thank you,