Swapped front clips on my new to me ram 2500. Now I've melted my running light fuse, my headlight bulbs glow very low orange (enough to illuminate the lense but not see), and my radio is completely dead. Any thoughts? I have checked the grounds on the fender, but am going to go back through and reclean them all. Two on the front driver fender and one that is heavier duty that I connected to the frame. That's where I currently am.

 

What year front clip did you use?

 

1996. Now when I turn the lights on the horn honks lol.

 

That's just not gonna work without some rewiring. Things changed in several circuits in the intervening years. You can download the factory service manuals for both years from here, and find the differences.... Not sure what you are going to have to do to resolve them.

 

Front fenders and bumper were changes. I removed all the wiring from the donor vehicle, and kept all of my stock wiring. The only thing that stayed in the new fenders were the headlight housings.

 

That should work just fine then..... Maybe you missed some grounds somewhere??

 

I worked to clean the grounds up as much as possible, but never could get them to work. I was nervous to take the big ground wire loom apart and clean each individual, so I ran a separate ground to the headlights. Worked like a charm! Fixed! Thank you all!

 

I had a whole host of things what either didn't work at all, or only worked when they felt like it... One thing they all had in common, was their ground point. G100, down on the base of the drivers side front fender, right behind the headlight housing.... There are a dozen or so wires that all went to the same LARGE connector that grounded there, and 2/3rds of the wires were broken, or only had a few strands remaining. Regrouped them into new ring terminals, remounted 'em, coated 'em with liquid electric tape, and all those problems went away.