Head liner
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RE: Head liner
I gotta think you need to remove everything that could possibly hold it up there, including the front pillars. I've taken out headliners in a couple of previous vehicles (not Rams) and they never seemed to go back in with the same fit and finish. Good luck, though.
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Step 1: Removing the headliner
a) Remove driver and passanger side A pillars. To do so, take your small flathead screwdriver and pop the cicular tabs open gently. Next use your 10 mm socket and remove all 4 bolts from inside the A pillars(2 on each side, 4 total). With a little force pull upwards and out on the handle to remove the A pillars. The drivers side will have a wiring harness behind it that powers all your roof accesories, we will refer to this as the "roof harness". The passengers side has the optional cab light harness, but in most cases it will just be the female end of the plug. As I would imagine, most trucks with the cab lights also have the overhead console factory equiped.
b) Remove sunvisors. Use your T-20 torks socket and remove 6 (3 on each side) torks screws from the pivotal part of the sunvisors. Next pull firmly downward to release them from the roof.
c) Removing misc clips. No tools needed here except a little finness. On the 2 in the front(that hold the sunvisors in) pull gently downward, part of them will slide down. Not too hard or they will break, trust me
. On the rears pull outward, the rears may require some serious pulling, as mine for example, were in pretty darn good.
d) Unplug the wiring. Unclip the harness from the drivers side A pillar. There will be a couple snaps to pull out the harness from the body. The 3rd brake light can unplug, as can the dome light, and autodim mirror, and lighted sunvisors, if equiped. Drop the headliner. Now it's ready to come down. Pull gently from the front, middle section and it will disconnect. Next, slide it forward and then it should drop down. Note, on quad cabs some additional side trim may need to be removed.
a) Remove driver and passanger side A pillars. To do so, take your small flathead screwdriver and pop the cicular tabs open gently. Next use your 10 mm socket and remove all 4 bolts from inside the A pillars(2 on each side, 4 total). With a little force pull upwards and out on the handle to remove the A pillars. The drivers side will have a wiring harness behind it that powers all your roof accesories, we will refer to this as the "roof harness". The passengers side has the optional cab light harness, but in most cases it will just be the female end of the plug. As I would imagine, most trucks with the cab lights also have the overhead console factory equiped.
b) Remove sunvisors. Use your T-20 torks socket and remove 6 (3 on each side) torks screws from the pivotal part of the sunvisors. Next pull firmly downward to release them from the roof.
c) Removing misc clips. No tools needed here except a little finness. On the 2 in the front(that hold the sunvisors in) pull gently downward, part of them will slide down. Not too hard or they will break, trust me
. On the rears pull outward, the rears may require some serious pulling, as mine for example, were in pretty darn good.d) Unplug the wiring. Unclip the harness from the drivers side A pillar. There will be a couple snaps to pull out the harness from the body. The 3rd brake light can unplug, as can the dome light, and autodim mirror, and lighted sunvisors, if equiped. Drop the headliner. Now it's ready to come down. Pull gently from the front, middle section and it will disconnect. Next, slide it forward and then it should drop down. Note, on quad cabs some additional side trim may need to be removed.
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You speak of wiring harnesses along the pillars... one for the console...and the other for roof lights? does that mean i'm not goin to have to wire a switch for my lights to work?
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Picture of my truck-s smoked roof lights installed a week ago:
http://pilt.delfi.ee/picture/683262/
RemoveA pillar plastic covers, plastic around safety belts,overhead computer and plastik hook-s
above the rear window.Power wire we connect to parking lamp wire...next to headlamps under hood.Also added extra switch because those lights can work here only with trailer or towing.
http://pilt.delfi.ee/picture/683262/
RemoveA pillar plastic covers, plastic around safety belts,overhead computer and plastik hook-s
above the rear window.Power wire we connect to parking lamp wire...next to headlamps under hood.Also added extra switch because those lights can work here only with trailer or towing.
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So i'm in for a ride? is it really that hard to do this?.. i was just thinkin just dropin the front enough to pull the wires down and tie them off to the side... do i really have to remove the entire headliner to do so?...
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Some drilling required for wires and small bolts to hold lights on roof.And the overhead computer is quit close if you drill holes for center light. Problem for me was roof height. DONT step on fender or hood even slightly.