Our trip to GI Joes netted us one more fuel filter, an air filter, some ice scrapers, and spare headlight bulbs. It should have provided us with a 5 gallon diesel fuel can, but I left it on a shelf in the store and forgot all about it.
Next stop, tires. They looked a lot better in person than they did on the craigslist ad, (or probably in the pictures below. We bought the set, and now just need to find two more.
After we got back to Doug's, we pulled the truck most of the way into the garage, (it's too long for the whole truck to fit in,) and started working on the lights. Doug volunteered for the unenviable job of wiring, while I mounted the brackets and the lights. Since we haven't sourced our lighbar yet, (maybe today?) we only installed the driving light harness.
Fog lamps mounted and with bezel.
After mounting up the fogs, I installed the block heater cord. Apparently, all Dodge Rams w/the Cummins diesel engine come with a block heater, but not all have the cord. Thanks to Cummins NW for the cord ($13.62,) and more importantly, its location! The plug is under the exhaust manifold, forward of the turbo, aft of the oil filter. I tried getting to it from the top, but eventually was successful from the bottom.
Top view:
Bottom view:
Installed, picture taken from the top facing forward, turbo inlet hose in the foreground:
In the meantime, Doug had managed to sort out this mess...
and route it through the firewall, to the lights.
We used Doug's heat gun to warm up our lens protectors, (thick 3M vinyl,) to make them easier to mount to our lights.
After dinner, we hooked up our surplus Midland VHF radio, and tried to get it to send/recieve on 151.625. We still have to make it work on that freq, but have confirmed that it will send and recieve on the HAM bands.
We still have lots left to do: lightbar, radio mounting, find two more tires, change the oil in the diffs, ditto t-case and engine, etc, etc. It's starting to come together nicely though!
-Bill
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