Need Info 2003 Ram Cummins Intake Grid Heater
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Need Info 2003 Ram Cummins Intake Grid Heater
2003 Ram 3500 HO
I am far from home in the Pacific Northwest with a problem and need to disable the grid heaters. It is raining 24/7 so I am looking for the cleanest/quickest way to disable the heaters.
I found reference to a fuse that controls power to BOTH grid heater relays (solenoids) but I don't know where it is located in my fusebox. (The coils are "hot" via this circuit and the PCM grounds the other side of the relay coils to activate the relays)
Can anyone help with a fuse location?
An alternative is removing the fusible link wire (that feeds the heater relays on the engine block) at the battery terminal, but I don't SEE a separate terminal connected to the battery terminal that can be removed. The terminal has several wires molded into it that cannot be removed, however.
Any help to disable this circuit w/o having to climb into the engine compartment would be most appreciated.
Thanks-
I am far from home in the Pacific Northwest with a problem and need to disable the grid heaters. It is raining 24/7 so I am looking for the cleanest/quickest way to disable the heaters.
I found reference to a fuse that controls power to BOTH grid heater relays (solenoids) but I don't know where it is located in my fusebox. (The coils are "hot" via this circuit and the PCM grounds the other side of the relay coils to activate the relays)
Can anyone help with a fuse location?
An alternative is removing the fusible link wire (that feeds the heater relays on the engine block) at the battery terminal, but I don't SEE a separate terminal connected to the battery terminal that can be removed. The terminal has several wires molded into it that cannot be removed, however.
Any help to disable this circuit w/o having to climb into the engine compartment would be most appreciated.
Thanks-
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A diagram I saw showed one side of the grid relay coils supplied 12v through a fuse, and the other side grounded through the PCM, thereby closing the main contacts to supply 12v from the battery through the fusible link to one side of the grid heater elements, the other side being grounded, thereby activating the heaters.