I have a 2000 ram 1500 that had the 360 in it and I am doing a diesel conversion to my 24 valve cummins block that I bought and the 1500 is completely stripped to the frame and I have every part I need to convert it, one ton axles front and rear, 6 speed tranny, new tank, lines, transfer case and all the other parts I don't want to list but before I started I just had one question, how do I reenforce the frame to support the block? Do I need to? Pretty sure I do so I was wondering how should I go about that?

 

Do you have the frame from the donor truck? If you do, have a look, and see what differences, if any, there are. Take it from there.

 

IIRC the frame is the same

 

I know that on 97s the frame was the same for gassers (1500) and diesels (2500). Probably the same throughout production.