Speaking of the wiring harnness... I have a factory wiring harness
for a Dakota(and I think full size Ram) for pre 1995 trucks. Unless my
father threw it away. He got it from a neighbor who saw my 1996 and
me working on putting a hitch on it. The connectors have changed and
I was forced to go purchase a harrnes kit from the store, it cost me
about $25 for mine. If someone needs this older style harness I could
get it to you for the cost of shiping... Let me know, and I'll try to find
it.(the wires are just hanging from the harrness that runns between the
left and right side taillight wireing, you'd need to add the trailer
connector yourself still.
On Thu, 18 Jul 1996, JT McBride wrote:
>
> & & cruise, 5-speed, sure grip diff, 5.2L and 3.90 gearing. Tow prep
> & package was included, but is joke because a prep pkg on all other brands
> & of trucks includes the wiring harness for towing (on 96 and later it is
> & included w/a hitch), but my Dakota didn't have it. Only the heavy duty
> & cooling, and heavy duty flasher. The other thing is that my truck has
>
> You also get overload springs, higher amperage alternator (with the extra
> power lead that is draped over the valve cover, just waiting to wear through
> and short out), and the pigtail out back. I too wish Chrysler had seen
> fit to give us an actual connector out back, along with a factory-installed
> receiver hitch.
>
> Payload on my 4x4 is 1800 lbs. Incidentally, while back in Montana, I hauled
> in a load of scrap iron from our mine. 1980 lbs. Also 21 lbs of brass scrap.
> Documented 2000 lbs [and I also had two old batteries]. The back was on the
> overload leafs, and the front just a wee bit higher. No difficulty with
> handling or jounce control (cheers for those Bilsteins!), even on our
> washboard dirt road. On the highway -- can you say ROAD HUGGING WEIGHT??
>
> I have the satisfaction of being able to say I moved a ton of stuff.
>
> Jim
> The hyper-violent and the ordinary societies in America are distinguished
> not by their attitudes towards guns, but by their attitudes toward murder.
>
> - Frank Silbermann
>
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