Blue Cummins Build

Stangshcky12 · Jul 19, 2014

Bought the truck with 87,*** miles on it on 5/19/2014, a week after I officially recievedend my engineering degree
2007 Ram 2500 5.9 Cummins 6 speed
How it sat at the dealership

I got it home and started cleaning it up, the chrome wheel lips came off immediately as well as the stickers from the previous owner

Then she met my girlfriends truck

Obviously I have a bit of catching up to do to her truck!

So far I've installed:
AFE cold air intake with a dry filter (removed turbo silencer ring)
Tinted Recon LED cab lights
Cat delete (4" exhaust with muffler)
Uniden 520xl CB with 3ft firestik antenna
MBRP "XDP Special edition" 5" polished exhaust tip
Removed the door spears
285/75/17 (34x11.5x17) terra grapplers
Edge Insight CTS
Truck came wih an advantage trifold tonneau cover

Intake

Before tires

After tires. (7/19/2014)

Insight CTS, will be adding rear view camera soon

Parts I have waiting to be installed:
OE style painted flares (rust repair to rear wheel wells)
2.5" progressive rate coil springs
30" LED light bar
Mini H1 projectors with 35w 5000k HID
AAC halos

Crescent1101 · Jul 19, 2014

Sweet truck! I really like your girlfriends truck! I may upgrade to a Cummins one day. I really want a early 3rd gen. I loved my patriot blue 2005 1500.

tipnitty · Jul 19, 2014

Everything looks good, but I don't like the idea of halo's at all.

In for the build.

Statcher1 · Jul 19, 2014

Looking good so far. I'd love to have me a cummins. But I just can't justify the extra fuel and up keep costs.

Sent from the Rocket in my Pocket

Stangshcky12 · Jul 20, 2014

tipnitty said:
Everything looks good, but I don't like the idea of halo's at all.

In for the build.

Me either actually, I bought them before I even had the truck
I thought I'd do black rockers and flares like I did with her truck at first but I like the chrome on this truck

Statcher1 said:
Looking good so far. I'd love to have me a cummins. But I just can't justify the extra fuel and up keep costs.

Sent from the Rocket in my Pocket

Truck does pretty well fuel wise, I think it hurt my wallet more to drive my dad's '11 Ram Hemi for a week then my own

WhiteExpress · Jul 20, 2014

Lovin the new truck! Coming along nicely.

FlyinHaYn · Jul 21, 2014

Nice. Even better that its not a 6.7 lol

Stangshcky12 · Jul 21, 2014

Ended up with 2.75" of lift

Couldn't take a picture of it when we finished up so this will do for now

Getting aligned tomorrow
My brother got me an EZ down for my tailgate and I think I'm going to get 1" lift shackles for the rear now

DavidRam · Jul 21, 2014

It's looking awesome man! What's next?

Stangshcky12 · Jul 21, 2014

DavidRam said:
It's looking awesome man! What's next?

I keep saying I'm done for now and then keep buying **** haha
Right now the only things on my "to buy" list are lift shackle and a rear view camera to hook up to the CTS (I convinced myself it was a good investment because 1. I'd really like to have a reverse camera 2. Corrected speed for the change in tire size 3. I turned 24 last week)

Waiting to see what happens with my job situation in the next month or so too

WhiteExpress · Jul 22, 2014

Steering Box Brace
Adjustable Trac Bar

Stangshcky12 · Jul 22, 2014

Those are both on the "I should buy these but dont really want to spend the money right now" list actually
Probably going to go with a hell bent steel steering box brace, I just replaced the gearbox 2 weeks ago and rather not have to do it again soon.

TexasRammer · Jul 23, 2014

Gonna have to start following this one now.. Congrats man, looks good!

Stangshcky12 · Jul 23, 2014

TexasRammer said:
Gonna have to start following this one now.. Congrats man, looks good!

Thanks!
I put the DeeZee tailgate assist on before I got it aligned last night and am haveing some problems with it
I've put three on now and this is the first one I've had trouble with
When I put my tailgate up it pushes the cable out from between the tailgate and taillight
If I line up the cable as I shut it the tailgate binds up and is tough to open

REX2313 · Jul 26, 2014

Good looking truck. I would love to have the diesel power under my foot. Maybe one day

WhiteExpress · Jul 27, 2014

Stangshcky12 said:
Those are both on the "I should buy these but dont really want to spend the money right now" list actually
Probably going to go with a hell bent steel steering box brace, I just replaced the gearbox 2 weeks ago and rather not have to do it again soon.

Gear box brace will be coming soon. The itch to go higher is getting worse and worse for me. I want to be prepared for larger tires.

Stangshcky12 · Jul 27, 2014

WhiteExpress said:
Gear box brace will be coming soon. The itch to go higher is getting worse and worse for me. I want to be prepared for larger tires.

My buddy was kickin around the idea of putting the same tires on his leveled '13
He helped me do my springs and we both agreed they'd still look to small on a 4th gen, they even look small on mine

Stangshcky12 · Jul 27, 2014

I guess I should add, I got my tailgate assist put on this past Thursday
The washer DeeZee includes was to thick and made the strut hit the tailgate and would bind up so I replaced it and everything works as it should
My girlfriend got me really nice seat covers for my birthday too
I kinda half ass put them on Thursday evening

I stopped for some pictures on my way back to Pittsburgh Friday, need to pull the rest off my camera

USMC1188 · Jul 27, 2014

Looking great man! This beast is coming along quick!

Stangshcky12 · Aug 5, 2014

I installed my reverse camera tonight
This is the camera I got:
Amazon.com : [180° Viewing Angle] Esky EC180-18 100% Waterproof High-definition CCD Vehicle Car Rear View Backup Camera / Aluminum Zinc Alloy Rearview Camera : Car Electronics
Kind of let down about it all

I picked that camera cause it had a lot of good reviews
Got it today and the camera was upside down. ,out would just flip it over but that would leave the wire in plain sight. I took it apart, flipped the camera over and drilled a new hole so the wire would be out of the way.

Once I got all the wires run cleanly I tried it out only to be let down again cause I had a manual transmission. It seems that the CTS doesn't recognize when the trucks in reverse like it would with an automatic transmission so the camera doesn't come up automatically. The camera is definitely working though as you can go into he menu and view it that way. It'll certainly be a pain to do every time I want to use the camera.

In other news
I have lift shackles on the way, will probably be a project for next week. They are adjustable for 1" or 2" of lift. (front sits .5" higher then the rear)

Hoping to get my flares on this week too

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