Cup Holder
nice interior. clean and simple. the geno holder looks a lot better than i imagined. i noticed yours was a 97 but where is the cupholder that is in the dash? did you remove it and get a filler piece?
i was just noticing on your bumper, how the heck do you have that black piece so dark? i've been looking for a product to bring out the shine. also, is a ram sport bumper a direct bolt on to a nonsport?
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My 96 is the same as yours. I removed the cupholder from the dash and took the bottom out and it works great!
It holds everything I drink except Lipton ice tea in the glass bottles.
Dave
It holds everything I drink except Lipton ice tea in the glass bottles.
Dave
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Hardly "cutting edge" engineering, but this is what worked for me......
Needed: Couple short lengths of black 16 ga. multi-strand wire, four small crimp "eye" connectors, one black screw for plastic.
This is what was broken on mine when I bought the truck a few weeks ago. It held to a point. But add a drink and a good bump in the road and you had a disaster.
The wire and four crush/crimp eye connectors. I didn't measure the length of the wire. I just cut it to the needed length with the cupholder in position, then snipped a milimeter or two more to compensate for the length of the "eye". It's also important to cut both to the same length so each shares equally in load bearing later.
Used the two existing factory mounting screws for the cup holder and then drilled one new hole into the plastic. I THINK I used 11/32" bit, but not sure. I just sized it to the screw. In the area where I drilled, the plastic appears to be about 1/8" thick and very tough. The plastic screw seated nicely. I like the plastic screws since they have a little deeper threads, but black sheet metal would also work. Either way it should hold the weight of pretty much anything that will fit in the holder:
Here's what you see from the driver and passenger position height. I used short lengths of some silicone fusion tape to cover the blue plastic of the connectors, but black electrical tape would work just as well. :
Just a shot showing how nicely the small gauge wire folds up as you close it. They don't interfere with anything and IMO it doesn't look bad.
~$1 in cost vs the cost of new or even used. And this should last for as long as the rest of the truck.
Needed: Couple short lengths of black 16 ga. multi-strand wire, four small crimp "eye" connectors, one black screw for plastic.
This is what was broken on mine when I bought the truck a few weeks ago. It held to a point. But add a drink and a good bump in the road and you had a disaster.
The wire and four crush/crimp eye connectors. I didn't measure the length of the wire. I just cut it to the needed length with the cupholder in position, then snipped a milimeter or two more to compensate for the length of the "eye". It's also important to cut both to the same length so each shares equally in load bearing later.
Used the two existing factory mounting screws for the cup holder and then drilled one new hole into the plastic. I THINK I used 11/32" bit, but not sure. I just sized it to the screw. In the area where I drilled, the plastic appears to be about 1/8" thick and very tough. The plastic screw seated nicely. I like the plastic screws since they have a little deeper threads, but black sheet metal would also work. Either way it should hold the weight of pretty much anything that will fit in the holder:
Here's what you see from the driver and passenger position height. I used short lengths of some silicone fusion tape to cover the blue plastic of the connectors, but black electrical tape would work just as well. :
Just a shot showing how nicely the small gauge wire folds up as you close it. They don't interfere with anything and IMO it doesn't look bad.
~$1 in cost vs the cost of new or even used. And this should last for as long as the rest of the truck.
is it still holdin up good?
