Thank you for this! Plz keep the videos comeing because 2nd gen Cummins owners need this bad!

@rickmarchion

5 жыл бұрын

I'm slowly adding more just wanting on this in the mail to finish the build.

I just got my 2500 2nd gen runnin and I actually just rehauled the whole interior and I'm happy seeing my clean and oem interior lookin like it came out of factory 😎 but nice work I wanna see how its gonna look..good luck and keep up the good work

I was pretty excited about this. Then I watched your video... I'm going back to LMC. I tear out and reinstall dashes all the time at work (mechanic), all OEM and I even hate that so I could only imagine my raging impatience while attempting this! More power to you for tackling that!

@rickmarchion

3 жыл бұрын

Yea i wish i didn't do it honestly

This is a great video man i’ve been wanting to do this forever to my ram

My dad has given me his 2000 dodge 1500 Laramie and I have been slowly restoring the interior. This may be a bit out of my league due to time as well as the truck is my main driver but damn this is pretty awesome to see.

That’s pretty gutsy! Nice work!

@rickmarchion

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you to bad between work and family I have no time for it.

Rock you like a Hurricane,... Night is Calling, I have to go....

97 and a half they changed to the frame of the cab vin before was riveted on the plastic dash

My 01 still has a perfect dash but I like the new style. Shorten the shift lever!!

You should use Jacuzzi tubing for the A/C venting

interesting point on VIN

I am so interested in doing this to my truck

@rickmarchion

4 жыл бұрын

Its alot of work unless you have friends that can help and are creative with materials

Early second gens have vins on dash

You can get a 4th gen center concle so you can have a cup holder and mount it I did it on my2n gen

@rickmarchion

4 жыл бұрын

I know I just can't find one for a decent price

I have a 97 ram 3500 and the vin was on the crappy dashboard. Gone with the wind!

@rickmarchion

4 жыл бұрын

Yea the 98 and newer had it on the firewall

Did you ever finish the dash? If you did can you post a finished video of how you finished it

Great job doing this on my truck right now, do the connections from the old harness fit the new dash controls or do you have to splice wires?

@rickmarchion

4 жыл бұрын

You cant use anything on the new dash to the best of my knowledge. Our truck is analog the new is Can bus they dont communicate with each other

@alexsecor162

4 жыл бұрын

Ok got ya appreciate it and your videos. Just seen your custom ac control video.

Can you post a link for the 4x4 shifter cup holder you found?

@rickmarchion

5 жыл бұрын

I found it on Ebay. It's from the tradesmen 4x4s so try searching that.

@Scorpio-tn4vy

3 жыл бұрын

Shorten shift lever down to the floor and leave it.

Will the air bags work on the passenger side with this set up ?

@rickmarchion

3 жыл бұрын

If I didnt get the dash out of a front end crashed truck you can get them to work yes

I am trying to swap the steering wheel with a 3rd gen wheel, but the wiring is different for the air bag, is your airbag functional? I see that there are 4 wires on the newer wheel, but looks like only 3 one the 2nd gen....

@rickmarchion

5 жыл бұрын

Mines a stock 2nd gen right now. I will be doing the swap to a 3rd gen soon. I dont know where I found but I did save it on my laptop. But I found a forum with a break down of the wiring for the airbags

@dennischaves7187

5 жыл бұрын

Ricky marchion do you have a link to that?

@rickmarchion

5 жыл бұрын

www.cumminsforum.com/forum/98-5-02-non-powertrain/1150362-98-02-2003-steering-wheel-swap-write-up.html#/topics/1150362. He used a clock spring and connection from the 3rd gen from what it sounds

@dennischaves7187

5 жыл бұрын

Ricky marchion thanks for the help!

@rickmarchion

5 жыл бұрын

No problem

Probably this ran through your mind as to doin it . But wouldn't it be easier to see how the dash and the air box and the interior assemblies are in the new Dodge, copy all of it into your ram, including the metal subframe for all of the dash. But it would include some welding at least.

@rickmarchion

4 жыл бұрын

That is the complete metal subframe of the new dash. And the new dash stuff arnt even in a similar location or size.

@robertzajkowski3971

4 жыл бұрын

@@rickmarchion kudos for doing it bro.its a helluva job to mod all that to fitting cause it's a totally different truck....with difference in dimensions.....what I saw from your window and it took a little bitt of visualizing....it might been easier to make a custom dash from scratch. But it's your project, kudos for doing it and I'm sure it will look awesome when done. Upload a video when done :).

I just wish someone made a quality carbon fiber dash thats true to the oem fitment.

@rickmarchion

5 жыл бұрын

That would be cool but the price would be more then any one would pay

@rickmarchion

5 жыл бұрын

It would be cheaper to do a carbon fiber fabric over the plastic it will hold 10 times stronger then stock and look good. I seen a post of some one doing it before

@Creaky_Candle

5 жыл бұрын

@@rickmarchion well couldn't be that bad if someone mass produced them like hoods and trunks. But i can see a one off being alot of money. Hell ill take one thats made out of a stronger material. Just tired of the cheap thin plastic. Ive been looking around for a bolt in alternative. I have seats done and alot of interior parts swaped out to better stuff. But if anyone knows where to get a good quality dash point me the way.

@rickmarchion

5 жыл бұрын

@@Creaky_Candle yea those options are limited you can buy a used untracked one and reinforce it and wrap it in fiber that's should hold up

I actually just done mind and i have everything

@rickmarchion

2 жыл бұрын

I wish I would have finished it a 100 percent but I had more problems with the truck and higher priorities at the time sadly.

Hey sup men. You in FL is there a way it can contact you???

@rickmarchion

4 жыл бұрын

You can fallow me on Instagram slick_rick_e_bobby

Door panels need changed to match dash

@rickmarchion

5 жыл бұрын

With no junk yard close that has 4th gen stuff the price people want are to high to practice with

Hey hey. Do u still have that truck?

@rickmarchion

2 жыл бұрын

Yea I do just worked on it recently.

@isaacreed8233

2 жыл бұрын

Cool. Can u post a update on the inside. I want to do something newer in my 00"

@rickmarchion

2 жыл бұрын

Its not finished sadly I ended up getting a new truck after a crazy divorce so its more getting it running agian

Yor truck is a 3rd generation. 1st Gen is from 1974 to 1980 . And 2nd Gen is from 1981 to 1993 . 1994 to 2003 or 04 is a 3rd generation. I don't know why people don't know that. I guess because they see so many other people saying even though they are wrong

@rickmarchion

2 жыл бұрын

People base it off the term ram being used on the truck before that was dodge w100 not dodge ram.. the 1st gen ram was 1981 to 1993 and 2nd gen was 1994 to 2001 with the 1500 2002 for the 2500 and up.

LMC truck sells a replacement dash for the 2nd gen...$280. Boom, done!!! This seems like ALOT of work for no real gain.

@rickmarchion

5 жыл бұрын

True but LMC doesn't sell bottom dashes cup holder glove Box That part of the Dashboard was broken on mine. Plus I wanted to do something only a handful of people have actually done And to the best of my knowledge no one else has working AC original gages or 4 by 4. But the best part about all of it it's my truck so I can do what I want to it

@robertzajkowski3971

4 жыл бұрын

It's more for himself . But kudos for doing it. I'd love to do it to my ram . But I would not tackle it myself

@conordugan3305

2 жыл бұрын

LMC doesn't sell the most important part, which is the abs sub assembly. Without that, nothing can go together. Used ones are goi g for a grand a pip, and that's if you trust shipping a brittle piece of abs plastic.

@nathanpike1908

5 ай бұрын

They sell the top only

@rickmarchion

5 ай бұрын

@nathanpike1908 this trucks been gone for years now so no worries.

Why don't you just mock-up a diamond plate steel Dash that's what I was going to do that way I can make it look like the original but made out of steel you know a Dodge Dash that might be able to withstand day-to-day activities and it's still 100% functional

@rickmarchion

5 жыл бұрын

Cause this one is a 100 percent functional now besides radio and final install of the light switch

@rickmarchion

5 жыл бұрын

Plus I dont want the look of a race car or mud truck in a daily

@dillan2.032

5 жыл бұрын

Or you could just mock-up some thin sheet metal and have it painted the same color as the truck like in those old 50s pickup trucks that would be pretty cool and it look pretty fancy idk ?

@rickmarchion

5 жыл бұрын

Probably would look cool but to far in to this.

@robertzajkowski3971

4 жыл бұрын

Because of the weight of it, your probably making it about 200 lbs heavier. Still awesome idea....you are thinkinking like a Nascar dash. But Dodge dash, new or old has a lot of curves, so to make it functional and good looking it be alot of welding, and metal fabrication and metal forming to shape.

Do u have any videos where u actually finish the job? I'm interested in your content but it seems like just a whole lot of you talking. Not very interesting to me.

@rickmarchion

5 жыл бұрын

Not really it's hard to film good angles and actually do the work. If it's not interesting I'm sorry.

How original "what is up guys?" Come on. How about some imagination. Welcome to my world, today we will be doing. And don't tell us what you are not doing. Trllus what you are doing

@rickmarchion

2 жыл бұрын

This videos 3 years old and I had no clue what I was doing clearly lol.