What did you do to your Gen3 today?

Today was the first day in a long time I’ve had to work on the 06 Ram, so bear with me.

I managed to fix my driver’s side heated seat issue. (During the worst heat wave in years, go figure.) One of the pins in a connector under the seat had pushed out and was intermittent at first, but had finally lost connection all together. I pushed it back in and viola.

I then decided to wire up my passenger heated seat that I had been putting off until winter since i already had the dash and seat wiring apart and what not. Took the wiring that I snagged from a Pull a Part place and ran it down through the proper connectors and pin locations and got my Mrs. a warm butt too.

From there I pulled the heated seat pads off the pass side cause I’m currently working on swapping a power driver seat track under my passenger seat just for kicks and giggles, along with giving the Mrs. lumbar support for long drives. Got the power track from the donor heated seats i stole the butt warmers from lined up and the wiring squared away for that. Swapped the passenger seat back, legs, and adjustment hardware onto the driver power bits and now i just need to move over the cushions and covers and make a hole in them for the lumbar knob. Once i do all that i’ll put the warmers back in and swap the switch wiring around so the flipped switch works right.

I also used my OBDLink MX+ and AlfaOBD to turn on my accessory delay and turn on my fogs with my high beams. Nice little software.

I saw in there an option for Auto Headlights and that got me thinking. The Dakotas and Durangos got auto headlights, why not us...? So I flipped on the setting and it didn’t fry my PCM, so I’m hoping theres a way to make it work. I picked up an auto headlight switch and the 04-06 mopar sun sensor from one of the aforementioned vehicles from my local Pull a Part for $11 total and I plan to either make it all work or waste $1000 on a fried TIPM before all is said and done. The sunlight sensor on the Durangos and Dakotas (who use the very same headlight switch as our 06+ Rams) runs both input and output wires through the BCM instrument cluster. Our Rams have a whole bunch of unused pins on the back of our clusters... Hmmm... Its looking plausible. Unfortunately, when I hooked up the auto headlight switch and flipped it to the auto setting my headlights remained off. I was expecting them to automatically come on since I have no sensor hooked up yet. I figured it would default to on with no input from a light sensor. If anyone can confirm what happens to a 04-06 Durango’s auto headlights when the sensor is disconnected, that would be great. If they stay off like my truck did, then maybe I’ll look more seriously into getting this project working.

Finally, I cleaned all my junk out from the back seat and put my Husky floor liner back in. I had taken it out to clean it one day and cluttered up the floor before I had a chance to put it back. Funny how life goes sometime. Oh well.

If you made it this far in the post, then congratulations, you listen better than my wife. Hell, if you made it past the first paragraph even... lol.

Anyways, thanks for reading, and have a good one!

Hi

Do you have a wiring diagram for the heated seats.

I have the same year and same problem that I’d like to solve.

Thanks


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acolic said:

Hi

Do you have a wiring diagram for the heated seats.

I have the same year and same problem that I’d like to solve.

Thanks


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Somewhere on the internet is a link to download the factory service manual pdf. I have it saved on my phone, and I use it to do most of my projects with. Its an amazing resource. Took both my 03 and 06 from ST/SLT to having just about every option from a Laramie. Just missing the dual zone A/C. (Just seems like too much work.) Gotta love junkyards.

Anywho. Ask and ye shall receive. Screenshots of my 06 manual for the heated seat circuits.

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Somewhere on the internet is a link to download the factory service manual pdf. I have it saved on my phone, and I use it to do most of my projects with. Its an amazing resource. Took both my 03 and 06 from ST/SLT to having just about every option from a Laramie. Just missing the dual zone A/C. (Just seems like too much work.) Gotta love junkyards.

Anywho. Ask and ye shall receive. Screenshots of my 06 manual for the heated seat circuits.

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I have a question about how you're adding stuff to your truck lol

Did you swap the entire interior wiring harness? I'm asking cuz I have an 06 ST and I'd imagine swapping a SLT wiring harness would make wiring in things (like power windows, locks, fogs, etc) a bit more simple in the long run than a bunch of splicing or sending more wires thru the firewall. Also I'd imagine a true wiring harness would be less likely to break than my sub-par electrical jobs lmao

Fishstickz said:

I have a question about how you're adding stuff to your truck lol

Did you swap the entire interior wiring harness? I'm asking cuz I have an 06 ST and I'd imagine swapping a SLT wiring harness would make wiring in things (like power windows, locks, fogs, etc) a bit more simple in the long run than a bunch of splicing or sending more wires thru the firewall. Also I'd imagine a true wiring harness would be less likely to break than my sub-par electrical jobs lmao

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Unfortunately for me, I’m a very broke about to be college grad, so everything I do is on a budget. As much as I would have loved to get a full harness from the dealer, its out of my price range, and all of the harnesses from the junkyard are already cut into. So I end up doing all of my own wiring.

I do use the factory connectors for everything though. I went and found a few badly mangled harnesses at the junkyard and scavenged as many pins and receivers in as many sizes as i could, so i could simply attach a pin to one end of the wire, put it in its correct slot, and then run the wire, attaching the pin end for the next connector, and so on.

I have taken both the lazy route with simple crimp connectors wrapped in electrical tape as well as the proper approach with solder and the whole nine yards. Either way, wiring is not nearly as difficult as you might think it is, as long as you follow the manual and pinouts and disconnect the battery before you start messing with it. If you prepare before hand, it should only take a weekend.

For the locks, windows, and power mirrors, they all run through the instrument cluster, so all the wiring was simple point A to point B from the back of the cluster to the accessory once you figured out the pinouts in the manual. The only annoying bit was going through the doors with their rubber boots. For that project, I went and got a used cluster from a truck that was already programmed for the keyless entry, locks mirrors and windows, so I dont know if you can program the base cluster to work those. I’m pretty sure I remember the 03 base cluster didn’t have a space for the receiver for the RKE module, not sure on the 06.

The fogs you probably already have the harness that dead ends by the front bumper and simply need the fog light jumper harness to plug in and the lights themselves to get them working. Its a 50/50 shot if they’re already turned on in your computer or if you have to have them activated.

Hope that answered some of your questions, and feel free to ask any more you have. This forum has been an immense help to me, so i’m more than happy to give back.

Put the tune on it and put a drop in K&N filter that was long overdue in. Started with the fuel mileage tune with Superchips and tuned the trans as well.

I got my factory rims back from powder coating.

I was going with black but my son said that was ‘lame’




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PuffTheMagicDragon said:

Unfortunately for me, I’m a very broke about to be college grad, so everything I do is on a budget. As much as I would have loved to get a full harness from the dealer, its out of my price range, and all of the harnesses from the junkyard are already cut into. So I end up doing all of my own wiring.

I do use the factory connectors for everything though. I went and found a few badly mangled harnesses at the junkyard and scavenged as many pins and receivers in as many sizes as i could, so i could simply attach a pin to one end of the wire, put it in its correct slot, and then run the wire, attaching the pin end for the next connector, and so on.

I have taken both the lazy route with simple crimp connectors wrapped in electrical tape as well as the proper approach with solder and the whole nine yards. Either way, wiring is not nearly as difficult as you might think it is, as long as you follow the manual and pinouts and disconnect the battery before you start messing with it. If you prepare before hand, it should only take a weekend.

For the locks, windows, and power mirrors, they all run through the instrument cluster, so all the wiring was simple point A to point B from the back of the cluster to the accessory once you figured out the pinouts in the manual. The only annoying bit was going through the doors with their rubber boots. For that project, I went and got a used cluster from a truck that was already programmed for the keyless entry, locks mirrors and windows, so I dont know if you can program the base cluster to work those. I’m pretty sure I remember the 03 base cluster didn’t have a space for the receiver for the RKE module, not sure on the 06.

The fogs you probably already have the harness that dead ends by the front bumper and simply need the fog light jumper harness to plug in and the lights themselves to get them working. Its a 50/50 shot if they’re already turned on in your computer or if you have to have them activated.

Hope that answered some of your questions, and feel free to ask any more you have. This forum has been an immense help to me, so i’m more than happy to give back.

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Thats a whole lot of good info! Thanks a bunch

There’s an 08 quad cab at my local salvage which I’ll probably use for some wiring cuz its mostly all intact and if I remember right was loaded pretty well with all the high trim goodies

I’ve done a little wiring on my truck but it was just adding a 12v accessory plug and underdash lights so nothing too fancy. The only thing I can think of I wouldn’t know how to do is to get the wires in the pinout connectors. It seems simple but I’ve just never done anything that required a connector lol

As for programming, I think I’ve seen the options for all these upgrades in AlfaOBD so hopefully it can be used to get everything working


So anyways, my bumper cover came in last night. Today I’m gonna get the truck all ready then tomorrow its headed to the body shop for some fresh new bumpers


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Been awhile. Done some trips and some projects.

Been a busy summer.




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Just got back from a 1700 mile trip, towing a Jayco tent trailer. Right before that I had just finished a coolant flush, low temp thermostat (160°) and new CHT sensor. I used a "vacuum filler" and it went great. The hardest part was getting everything apart since nothing had been taken off before. Truck did great and never got above 200°.

What year is the truck?

One of the pictures looks like the truck has a Bilstein steering stabilizer?


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Took the truck in thursday and they have to keep it over the weekend. Pretty sure the rear bumper got bedlined today but not sure about the status of the bumper cover. It may have already been painted and drying. Who knows? Guess I'll be getting it back early next week

So my truck has the little plastic fillers that go into the fog light holes. I noticed fog lights are mounted differently than these little plastic fillers so I was wondering if I needed to pick up some fog lights to get those holes filled? I figure the fogs would help mount the bumper cover as well. I probably wouldn't be able to wire them up OEM-style yet cuz of my janky ST wiring harness which lacks just about every power feature imaginable but I'd still like to get some if its needed to hold that bumper cover on

acolic said:

What year is the truck?

One of the pictures looks like the truck has a Bilstein steering stabilizer?


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Good question, my truck is a 2008.
Yes, that’s a Bilstein steering stabilizer. My old one no longer extended on it’s own.

Rok


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I have a 2006 and I don’t have a steering stabilizer.

Is that something that came with the 2008 or was this an add on?


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I found the speedo off by 5 mph with phone GPS. I programmed the ABS with a snap on scanner for my wheel size. Now the speedo is off by 10 mph. Speedo 31 mph. Phone GPS 51 mph. I also found that the front lower shock bolt fell out again... I keep losing them and it's $60 a bolt from the dealer as no one carries them. Tomorrow I will program the ABS again, I don't know what I am going to due about the bolt. Maybe red lock tite the bolt until I can't see the threads, I didn't want to reuse my lower control arm anyway...

acolic said:

I have a 2006 and I don’t have a steering stabilizer.

Is that something that came with the 2008 or was this an add on?


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It came stock. The old one is on the ground in my original post. I mounted the new one in the same position.


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It came stock. The old one is on the ground in my original post. I mounted the new one in the same position.


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Fantastic.

I noticed there’s a lot of play in my steering when driving. All the suspense has been changed just not as tight as I would like.

I wonder if the stabilizer could be retrofitted to 2006 and if that would tighten things up.


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Fantastic.

I noticed there’s a lot of play in my steering when driving. All the suspense has been changed just not as tight as I would like.

I wonder if the stabilizer could be retrofitted to 2006 and if that would tighten things up.


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Is yours a 1500 or 2500/3500 4x4


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The serpentine belt on my Ram kept walking one tooth off, causing the edge of the belt to chew up. Finally examined the pulley system closely and noticed the power steering pump pulley was out about an eighth an inch from the rest of them. Borrowed a pulley removal and installation tool. Broke it trying to press the pulley in so I decided to put in a new pump. Pretty straightforward job. Disconnect hoses and drain. Remove three bolts holding it on and remove pump. Used pump pulley tool to remove the pulley and install it on the new one and reassemble. Total time about 2 hours from drain to cleanup. Craftsman Max Axess ratchets helped a lot in removing and installing the pulley. https://www.amazon.com/CRAFTSMAN-93...=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00WSWOGX0

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Is yours a 1500 or 2500/3500 4x4


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1500.


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