I just got my first Dodge truck. It is a 2005 HD 2500 Laramie 4X4 diesel. Since I have never owned a Dodge and this thing is brand new, I am nervous about drilling holes. I need to run some wires for my Ride-Rite suspension airbags, CB, Etc. and I am not sure where the best place would be to drill a hole the size I need. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Or is there a drain plug somwhere in the cab I can use to run the wires?

Thanks.

 

I havent looked at the floor board of mine but there should be some holes with gromets in them.

when I ran my boost/EGT wires I used the hole the hood latch cable uses. it's a tight fit but it works

 

Look on the firewall just forward and above the brake pedal. There is a rubber grommet with 1 cable running through it. I've ran several wires and a cb antenna through it. From the engine compartment, it's to the inside and below the brake master cylinder.

 

if u want ur holes to Come out perfect... take some maskin tape, and mask the area you want and then with a pen just make a circle where u need to or if not just start drilling.. it will keep your bit from going all over the place and ruening ur metal.

 

hrm i need to check that out with my truck.. hopefully its there so i can run my wires from my 4x4 fog lights thru there

 

the place Don is talking about is the same one I used for my boost/egt lines.

it is the hood latch release cable that goes through it.

 

Oh yea - It makes it easier if you pull the gromet out from the engine compartment side of the firewall. Very easy to reinstall. When I wired my Mopar trailer harness, that was the recommended routing by Mopar.

 

That Grommet can be easily access. If you only have a couple wires, use a coat hanger, tape the wires to one end and then poke the other end through that grommet and carefully lace the whole hanger and wires through the grommet. It keeps a tight seal (as tight as it could be) around the set of wires and when you might want to remove it - it just might (doubtful though) snap back into shape. Just thought I thow my 2 cents out there.

 

Thanks for the tips guys. I used the hood realease cable hole for some of the wires I needed to run since there is no fusebox inside the cab on the 2005 (that I could find anyway). I also found some punchouts in various places under the cab of the truck that could be punched out. I had to run small air hoses in there for my Ride-Rite Air bag controls so I was able to just punch one of those out. I found a piece of rubber I was able to slip in the hole and drill out small holes for each hose. No noise increased in the truck so I think it works well.

Thanks again for all the replies.

 

the true test will be if it leaks. . .

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