All I can say is wow.

 

I hope thats a good wow.

 

Alright well the update as of now, I put the hood back on and everything clears. Even the brake booster reservoir. As for the fitting that I wasn't able to find anywhere, well I found one. There was a 2011 Ram that was burnt to a crisp that had exactly has the metering blocks still on the frame. They were about the only parts intact. The guy that worked at the yard was surprised that I found anything useful on that truck and seeing that it was just a fitting he let didn't charge me for it. Free definitely beats the $80 it would have cost me from the dealership. So since I found the fitting I was able to finish plumbing the brakes today, I'll have my wife help me bleed the brakes tomorrow but that system is pretty much done. Tomorrow I'll start working on the air intake situation. Since the throttle is so close to the hood I can't just have a round elbow coming off of the throttle without hitting the hood. I'll make a "hat" type thing out of aluminum and use a regular silicone piece to connect them together.
Also I started connecting the wiring harness. It's not too hard seeing that I'm just matching wire colors and connectors. But things are coming together.

 

Somehow I missed this thread the same as another poster said; I have been out of town working odd hours so had almost zero internet time. Ashamed to say that often I wont spend to much time in a thread like this because its not something thats very applicable to my situation but I just finished reading the entire thread and I have to tell you how impressed I am with it. I am more of a "purist" I suppose but I like everything about your truck and the build. That fuel tank is awesome. The dash looks like it was made to go in there. So does the engine. Hats off to you and and your ingenuity, skill and work ethic juggling school, a wife and this build and I'm guessing, a job. Keep up the good work, I cant wait to see it when its done.

 

Alright Fellow FTE'ers I've hit another bump in the road. I have pretty much everything mounted up and ready to go. The brakes are done and bled. The fuel system was pretty easy and all most of the controls are mounted. I also have the wiring harness ran through out the truck. However I still have a TON of electrical connectors that don't have anywhere to go. Mostly because I don't have all the extra do-dads that the 2010 Ram had such as electric windows ect. At the front and back of the truck there are several connectors that I'm sure go to the headlights, turn signals and brake lights. I need to find the wiring diagrams for this truck so that I can narrow down these misc. connectors and label them for later use. The problem is that I can't find the diagrams anywhere. I tried the dodge dealership but they gave me some long excuse as to why they can't give them to me, and I haven't had any luck with google either. What I'm asking is does anyone know where I can find wiring diagrams for late model trucks such as 2010 models.

 

This link takes you to Ram info, but I didn't see wiring diagrams...

http://www.dodge.com/bodybuilder/2010/ram/drmo.pdf

This link is for chassis/cab, it contains wiring diagrams...maybe they are the same???

http://www.dodge.com/bodybuilder/201...cdm/drwdmo.pdf

and it only seems to work in Internet Explorer...google Chrome doesn't handle it well...

 

Nice thanks. I have learned that on those 2010 pages the 3500 has the wiring diagrams that I need, also the 2009 diagrams are there as well, which is pretty much the same truck. Thanks dlburch I really appreciate the help.

 

I have a buddy . He is stuffing a hemi in a 32 ford 9 inch , c6 , ask how .. Too much time on his hands . ( good song there ) His daily is an econoline pickup and a rampage . Guess they messed with him .Hope he does well with his build ,

 

Alright well there has been more progress. Thanks to some fellow FTE'ers I was able to get pretty much all the wiring harness figured out. There are still a small number of odds and ends but nothing bad. So I went ahead and started putting the bed back on.


All was going well up until I went to put the fenders over the wheels. The bigger tires were just barely touching the fenders and the front of the tires were extending past the fender about an inch.





The first thought that came to mind was to trim the fender, then I realized that was horrible idea. I decided to extend all my control arms two inches.
I went and bought some pipe the same thickness as the control arms, but the I.D. was just slightly larger that the O.D. of the control arms.



The only thing that was a little issue was that the inside of the pipe had a seam that was getting into the way. The way I got around that was by marking where the seam would interfere with the control arms and then grinding a groove into the control arms so the seam would clear. Then it was just a matter of sliding the pipe in the appropriate amount and tack welding it together.





Everything came out just right I put the control arms back in and the tires clear the fenders just fine. Tomorrow I will take them back out and finish welding them.





Now all I have to do is button up a few more wiring issues, get a key programmed and lift the front two inches.

SHE'S COMING TOGETHER!!!

 

im gonna need a napkin......

 

I just saw this thread for the first time. Your fabrication skills are awesome. Nice job.

 

Well everyone I'm sure some of you remember this build that I had going on. For a while there I was making outstanding progress. All that was left to do was to have a key made. Well I kept having issues with the anti theft system from the Ram and as it turns out I will need to have an aftermarket harness made. I guess that there is at least one thing I can't make myself. However unlike the generation III Hemi, there are not that many companies that make a harness and do aftermarket programming to the 4th gen engines that have MDS and VVT. I did find one company out of North Carolina that makes them and they will go ahead and program my key and my ECU and make my harness. However during this time the school load started getting kind of heavy, plus we were finishing up several projects around the house getting ready to sell our house in San Diego and finding a good job position out in Texas as well as working part time already. So I eventually did have to put the truck on the back burner. Then the day finally came where the house was sold and it was time to make the move back to Texas. Well the truck still didn't run yet so we just rented a U-haul trailer to bring it back. I was planning on sending my ECU and key in as soon as we got home to have the harness made then she'd be "done" or at least running under her own power.



All was well until we hit Arizona and had a flat tire on the trailer. It really wasn't that big of a deal, we called uhaul and they had some guy come out and replace the flat and we were on our way. Keep in mind that we were driving all the way from San Diego, CA to a small town in East Texas called Hallsville, its a pretty long drive. And we were only able to go about 50 mph because above that the trailer would start to sway. Well about 250 miles away from our destination about 2 a.m. a guy in a 2012 Dodge Ram 3500 tested the name sake of his truck and plowed right into the back of my truck at about 75-80 mph. It forced my truck up and over the side of the trailer. The rear axle tube itself was ripped out of the differential housing and almost all the control arms are bent. The only body parts of my truck that weren't damaged were the doors and the hood. Everything else did take some damage. The truck we were using to tow with was also heavily damaged. Luckily the guy hauling the trailer was able keep it under control as much as possible. The initial hit pushed them to the left and he tried to bring it over to the shoulder but when he did the driver of the Ram had apparently lost control of his truck and pushed them even more and they ended up in the ditch sideways. Luckily no one was hurt and none of the vehicles rolled, especially the one with people in it. God was definitely watching over them that night. So as you can see in the pictures my yellow truck is in pretty rough shape. The insurance company wanted to total it, but I told them that wasn't an option. I'm still not sure exactly how much I'll be getting to fix it, last I heard it was about $5200 that they are going to give me. However I won't be able to start repairing it until we buy a house out here in Houston, so that I will have somewhere to work at. Because driving 4 hours back every weekend just to fix a truck aint gonna work for me. But this time I'm thinking about doing it right. I'm gonna go ahead and strip it all down again, but this time I'm gonna go ahead and make a tubular frame with chromoly pipe, and go ahead and take the extra steps of figuring out the front suspension geometry. That way it'll be that much tougher and that much cooler. However on a good note, everyone of my welds held up and have no signs of cracks even after all that stress.

 

Oh, man. ******

 

Holy Crap!! Well at least you are gunna fix it! Was anyone hurt during this ordeal?

 

No one was hurt, which is honestly what I'm most thankful for. I can rebuild that truck a hundred times over. But you can bring someone back once they're gone.