What is this box called?

[khigh]

Hi all.

It's a long, thin relay/fuse box between the battery and firewall on my '15 Lone Star Ecodiesel.

It's pretty obvious what it is and what it does. I need the official name so I can order a cover for it.

Thanks for looking!

 

[GTyankee]

it almost looks like a

Intelligent Power Distribution Center -​

only used for Relays & oversized fuses

 

[khigh]

Had occasion to stop by a dealership this morning so I inquired about it.

Still don't know what it's called, but the plastic cover alone is $79, so I still don't have it.

I imagine it's $2 at a u-pull.

 

[hunterdan]

Had occasion to stop by a dealership this morning so I inquired about it.

Still don't know what it's called, but the plastic cover alone is $79, so I still don't have it.

I imagine it's $2 at a u-pull.

Did they give you a part number for the cover? Do you see a part number stamped on the box at all? If they gave you a part number. Search it to see what pops up. Same with the part number on the box.

 

[khigh]

I didn't.

Took about three of them to figure it out, so it wasn't a direct correlation to any numbers stamped on the box.

One guy called out about a 12 digit part number, but I didn't catch it. The guy in front of me said "I never would have found that!"

I'll hold out for a junk part. Kind of a testament to the trucks that neither of the two side-by-side huge junkyards in northeast Atlanta have a single Gen 4 RAM, huh?

 

[hunterdan]

To me, it looks like an oem auxiliary power distribution block. Something that would tie into the OEM upfitter switches. But I'm having trouble finding the exact block

 

[crash68]

it looks like an oem auxiliary power distribution block. Something that would tie into the OEM upfitter switches.

Close.. That box has the fuses and relays for the cabin PTC heaters and glow plugs, it's only found on the Gen4 EcoDiesel

There doesn't appear to have any useable part numbers on the lid

 

[crash68]

I imagine it's $2 at a u-pull.

Check: www.car-part.com

 

[Sherman Bird]

Had occasion to stop by a dealership this morning so I inquired about it.

Still don't know what it's called, but the plastic cover alone is $79, so I still don't have it.

I imagine it's $2 at a u-pull.

If you watched the movie from 1966 with Dustin Hoffman called "The Graduate", you might recollect that, at his home coming/ graduation party, an older fellow admonished him to go into plastics as a lucrative career.

 

[khigh]

Thanks for the replies.

Going to make it tougher to find in a junkyard if it's Ecodiesel specific.

From my understanding, 1st Gen Ecodiesels either bit it by 50K or they're still on the road.