1500Teej
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Good morning everyone.
I appreciate all the time and resources this forum has dedicated to help DIYers like myself. I wanted to “Express” my goals of making my interior feel like a premium one so (Allow-Me/a Lara-mie) (puns are fun) to detail my progress. So after researching (scanning through the various forums on this site) (SERIOUSLY I THANK YOU ALL THAT CONTRIBUTED) I’m gonna swap my full dash, crash bar and harness for one I picked up out of a Laramie. I already did the seats, center console and 7” cluster swap and 8.4 uconnect and rear view mirror. Granted my Express harness doesn’t fully connect to the 8.4 hvac controls and such. So after doing more research (scanning through the various forums on this site) I decided to swap everything out instead of buying the 8.4 uconnect harness and bridging it into my factory harness. The cost for the harness was very reasonable and I would have purchased this but when planning out my project I decided to price everything out and search around locally and see what I could find and so far it’s been one of the best decisions i’ve made since I decided to purchase and create myself another sport truck (I had a 99 lightning about 5 years ago and sold it and been missing it every since)
Now here’s the juicy part. I haven’t found an article addressing this (YET!!) (If this is read I’m sure someone will correct me if I’m wrong but onward!) I’m gonna see if this Laramie 8 speed (Dial shifter) dash to seats harness will work with my 5 speed transmission (Column shifter). Now before I’m flamed allow me to present more details about what all I have and why I chose this.
I have the entire dash/crashbar/complete dash harness even with the alpine amp still connected along with all the ambient lights bells and whistles the whole shebang!! Along with the steering column and steering wheel. Included with all of this is all the connectors and everything that’s attached to the dash light switch push button start the oem smart key fob with keyless enter n go and even the hvac plumbing !! I got it for a price that I couldn’t refuse out of a junkyard. So I’m gonna swap all this out this morning and see with I can get her to function normally like she would dress out the factory. I have alfaobd & vlinker mc+.
My overall plan is to create my version of what I think a hybrid-esque scatpack ram r/t would looks and feel like. I know, nobody asked for this but it’s happening.
If someone hadas done this, swap a laramie 8 speed harness into a 5 speed truck. Did it work anything to look out for? If not, no worries, I’ll know if this was foolish or trailblazing in the next 5 hours . Anyway I’ll post some pics before and after. There’s enough dash removal vids and post out there. Thanks for reading. replying and offering advice that pertains to my endeavors. Thanks again!!!
I appreciate all the time and resources this forum has dedicated to help DIYers like myself. I wanted to “Express” my goals of making my interior feel like a premium one so (Allow-Me/a Lara-mie) (puns are fun) to detail my progress. So after researching (scanning through the various forums on this site) (SERIOUSLY I THANK YOU ALL THAT CONTRIBUTED) I’m gonna swap my full dash, crash bar and harness for one I picked up out of a Laramie. I already did the seats, center console and 7” cluster swap and 8.4 uconnect and rear view mirror. Granted my Express harness doesn’t fully connect to the 8.4 hvac controls and such. So after doing more research (scanning through the various forums on this site) I decided to swap everything out instead of buying the 8.4 uconnect harness and bridging it into my factory harness. The cost for the harness was very reasonable and I would have purchased this but when planning out my project I decided to price everything out and search around locally and see what I could find and so far it’s been one of the best decisions i’ve made since I decided to purchase and create myself another sport truck (I had a 99 lightning about 5 years ago and sold it and been missing it every since)
Now here’s the juicy part. I haven’t found an article addressing this (YET!!) (If this is read I’m sure someone will correct me if I’m wrong but onward!) I’m gonna see if this Laramie 8 speed (Dial shifter) dash to seats harness will work with my 5 speed transmission (Column shifter). Now before I’m flamed allow me to present more details about what all I have and why I chose this.
I have the entire dash/crashbar/complete dash harness even with the alpine amp still connected along with all the ambient lights bells and whistles the whole shebang!! Along with the steering column and steering wheel. Included with all of this is all the connectors and everything that’s attached to the dash light switch push button start the oem smart key fob with keyless enter n go and even the hvac plumbing !! I got it for a price that I couldn’t refuse out of a junkyard. So I’m gonna swap all this out this morning and see with I can get her to function normally like she would dress out the factory. I have alfaobd & vlinker mc+.
My overall plan is to create my version of what I think a hybrid-esque scatpack ram r/t would looks and feel like. I know, nobody asked for this but it’s happening.
If someone hadas done this, swap a laramie 8 speed harness into a 5 speed truck. Did it work anything to look out for? If not, no worries, I’ll know if this was foolish or trailblazing in the next 5 hours . Anyway I’ll post some pics before and after. There’s enough dash removal vids and post out there. Thanks for reading. replying and offering advice that pertains to my endeavors. Thanks again!!!
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