This device shown in the pictures sit in the battery tray.
It's a temp sensor for the battery, and it helps determine charging rate at different temps.
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1998 1500 4x4 quad cab
k&n air filter
flowmaster exhaust
100watt KC Day Lighters
cb/xm radio/magellan gps
12 inch jbl sub with 750 kenwood amp
clarion cd player with 6 disk changer
151000kms
on its 3rd motor
285/75/16 BFGoodrich A/T
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Found this while surfing the net, tried it and it works great, makes all four bulbs burn at once for an extremely bright drive at nite
Possibly a new solution to an old problem.<br><br>I wanted to have my low beam lights to stay on when switching to high beams. I was poised with pen in hand getting ready to write a check for a Brite Box. Then I remembered that I was an electrical engineer and should be able to do this myself. I located the schematic for the lighting circuit in the manual and found out how it works. A simple procedure will eliminate the need for the Brite Box. There are those who will say that the light switch can't handle the current of both filaments being on at the same time. I have a 2002 so my switch maybe different than earlier years. I did, however, perform this modification to a friend's 2001 without any problems at all. To do the mod, remove the panel below the steering column. This will expose a bundle of wires coming from the multifunction switch as well as the horn, cruise control, etc. The wires of interest on my 2002 as well as my friend's 2001 are light green and violet with a white stripe. There are two light green wires. Make sure of the one you need before doing the mod. I used a piercing circuit tester light and found the correct light green wire by grounding the tester and piercing each light green wire and watching which wire caused the tester light to go on and off when the light switch was turned on and off. Having located the correct wires, I used a wire tap connector to short these two wires together. The wire tap is designed to allow you to connect a new wire to an existing circuit. In other words, one side of the tap goes all the way through and the other dead ends. Take a knife and cut the dead end plastic out so that both wires can go all the way through. Place both the light green wire and the violet with white stripe wire in the tap and press it home with pliers. Be careful not to short the pliers to ground while doing this. I used a dab of dielectric grease in the tap just to be safe from corrosion later on. What this mod does is simply short across the low beam disconnect contacts of the multifunction switch. This will make the low beam filaments light as long as the light switch is turned on with the multifinction switch in either high or low beam position. I can now see the road better and it cost me $0.11 instead of $95.00. Questions are welcome.
anouther thing you can do is use a relay to turn on your low beam lights on wen the highbeam is on this way you dont run the risk of burning out your dimmer or headlight swirch because it is the relay switching not the dimmer or headlight switch and it only costs about 15$.
First get a relay and some wire
Second hook post 30 on the realy to the positive termnal on the battry
Third hook post 85 of the relay to a good ground
Fourth splice 86 into high beam
Fith splice 87 into low beam
and now your done and it is 100% legel at least in canada anyways (im not responcple if its not leagel where you are)if you want the option to trun this on and off(so your low beam isent always on wen highbeam is on) just hook a switch in the wire going fron 86 to highbeam and run it into your cab. this will help your low beam bulbs last longer. you can do it with a single bulb that has high and low in it too (2 headlights insted of 4) but you half to watch they dont get too hot. hope it helps
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1998 Dodge Ram 1500 4X4 318 (5.2L)
too much to list....
Another item on front lighting...
The same guy that was on you list for the Sport headlights sells the clear driving lights that come on the 99-02 non sport. He refers to them as 94-01 He also sells on E-Bay. There is a link from their web site or look under EBay seller ivm1 or look at Item number: 8045955644. .
I got a set last year from http://stores.ebay.com/MakotoAutoTrends. The price was about the same. They look a lot cleaner, instead of the ridged lenses that came on the earlier models. I have a 97 sport and they look great. Put out more light than the earlier ridged lense models. Mine stay on all the time and my old lenses where starting to crack and get a dull center from age. The new ones came with a different bulb so just use your old one. Been on for a year, no problems.
Just remember these are the ones that came on the 99-02 Non Sport.
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97 1500 Sport 5.9 Auto, 3" PA Body lift 4.56 Gears, 37x13.5x15 Claws on 15x10 rims, Flow Master, 2 MTX Amps, 4 Infinity's & 2 MTX 10's
3" Rancho lift coming off, 6" Dick Cepek lift in progress.
"Buy American, It Might Just Be Your Job You Save"
maybe we should also mention the brake line failer behind the gas tank.
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97 dodge ram aka the beast (wheelin rig) 98 dodge ram. lifted and hooked up ( the DD)
05 Jeep wrangler. of course mods lol.. ( the gf's rig)
08 Yamaha R6. ( the go fast toy)
Hey everybody I don't know how to make a new post or thread so sorry its off subject I have a 1997 dodge ram 1500 4x4 and i want to dual out the exhaust but a true dual exhaust i need to know how to reprogram the ECU so the O2 sensors will work with the new setup and dimension of piping and still pass emissions if anyone has any thoughts or could help that would be very appreciated thanks a lot
i have an 2001 dodge ram 1500 with the 5.2 litler engine and i have extremely bad low end power i took the motor is completly stock i took it to the track this weekend and it would barley do a burnout in the water box it ran and 18.36 is this normal or is something wrong is there anything i can do to make lowend better
thanks alot, cody
there are a ton of mods you can do to help low end, and upper end... some are cheep, some are not. the cheepest would be to swap the thermostat to a 180 deg, slot the crank position sensor and drop in a K&N filter in place of the stock air filter. Post a performance question down below in the general forum and you'll get plenty of responses...
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