How To Install Cab Lights On A Dodge Ram 1500

Here's my write-up on Home Page of Mopar1973Man forum...

At whatsoever rate, I installed clear lens/amber LED cab lights this by weekend. My truck did not have them from the manufactory, so I bought some EuroLite 9-LED ones for a Ford, from eBay for $70 delivered. I liked the Ford-mode ones better, so that's what I went with. They arrived in a box, no instructions, no packaging, simply an invoice, lights, and packing peanuts...

this manner:

Since my truck didn't have cab lights, I had to drill..

In a nutshell:

1. Drop headliner (phillips screws hold visors, pinch clips for overhead console, T20 for pass. side take hold of-handle, T20 for QC latch trim covers, snaps for a-pillar trim
2. Record a straight line from top corners of windshield.
3. Measured vi" upwards on each side, and taped another straight line across.
4. Found Center line, marked it on the tape
5. From center line, outward, measure 8.5", mark it
6. From the centre line, outward, measure 21". mark information technology
7. Once you have these lines marked, measure 5.75" from top edge of windshield, dorsum. This mark will be the forward-most signal of the cab light. (this will put the wiring of the Ford-style lights right near over the inner cab-wall pigsty.
8. Using the base of i calorie-free, make a cardboard template of the low-cal base, and drill holes where wiring and screw holes will be.
9. Mark center line on template. This will aid you in lining/centering/straightening up the lights and marking the drill locations.
10. Align center line of template onto each parallel line for the light locations, taking into account the front end of the light base on the 5.75" back-set marker.
11. Drill the 3 holes required by the lights (2 mounting screws, 1 wiring hole)
12. I used an 1/8" (.125) chip for making the #8 screw pilot holes. Likewise a pilot hole for the wiring, to be drilled out to iii/viii", or .375
13. Utilise a dab of articulate silicon on each mounting screw hole on the cab, and a hulk around the wiring at the light base
14. Place the light base onto the cab, carefully ensuring that it'due south aligned properly.
15. Mountain the light bases using (purchased separately) #8 ten .75 SS canvass metal screws, and snug them downwardly evenly
16. In one case all are mounted, move inside the truck and wire lights in serial.
17. I grounded them inside headliner, and ran 'hot wire' down driver's a-colonnade, to headlight switch (remove bezel, iii phillips screws and slide headlight switch out. Wire is black/xanthous.
18. Bank check for proper operation.
19. Reinstall everything if all is good to get!

The measurements I used/came upwardly with are on my 2001, and so aye, late 2G trucks. If yous're using Contrivance-style lights, then your front-to-back measurements may be different. I used the Ford style, and then they're a little shorter, IIRC. My lights are 4" long, and the mounting screws are left to right. I recall the Dodge mounting screws are front to back?

Regardless, from centerline of the cab, y'all'll find (when you drop the headliner) that the lights are Heart, 8.5", and 21" from center, either direction. (or center 0", left-inner @ 8.5", left-outer @ 12.v" from left-inner, same for correct side.
I think the wiring hole on inside of roofline (manufactory location) is nigh 7-3/4" from windshield edge.

Drilling that commencement hole was nerve-racking! In one case I popped it through, though, it was all block from there..

Y'all don't really even accept to 'remove' the headliner, just driblet the front.

1. 3 phillips screws on each visor
2. i phillips spiral on each visor retainer
3. OHC has two compression clamps and pull backward
4. two T20 bolts retain pass. side grab handle
5. both a-pillar trims pop off
6. pull down door seals enough to clear the edges of the HL
7. *if you have a QC, then torx20 takes the screws out of the overhead QC door latch trim covers
8. Pop the two middle plastic servant pins in the rear/center headliner (leave the rear-most push pins in the headliner)

Then I just let the HL hang down in the front, resting on the front seat headrests.. This provided enough of room to go far there and wire it all up.

Grounded the cab lights to a single point in the ceiling, and ran a unmarried power wire downwardly the A-pillar, into the nuance to the light switch, tagged the black due west/yellow striped wire (PRK LIGHT wire) and reassembled it all back.

Takes like 5 minutes to drib the headliner. you tin leave the center dome light alone; it's attached to the headliner, itself, not the roof.

Overhead panel. Open the garage door opener compartment. Two compression clips in at that place. Pinch them and slide the panel backward. Its a PITA but volition come up out.

Source: https://www.ramforum.com/threads/installing-cab-lights-in-2g-dodge-ram-2500.11178/

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