My understanding is the frames are the same. I easily could have run into the same issue you are dealing with when I first started to work on purchasing a flat bed tow truck this year. However I discovered a lot about fuel tank placement issues and other details so the decision was made to simply allow the company (Jerr Dan) through Nussbaum wreckers (the agency I purchased my truck through) to handle everything. I did buy a 2008 Kodiac, gas with twin tanks. 25gal midship, and 19gal rear. The placement of those two tanks is already correct for the Jerr Dan bed. If need be, I could take some measurements, and photos of mine for you for some specifics, but really the company installing what ever bed you want on the truck should be able to come up with that information.

Pretty simple reason actually. People waste thousands of dollars on silver bullet parts swaps all of the time, and then when they are unsuccessful they show up at a shop and now they don't have any more money to spend. In fact they often times act as if the effort required to test correctly is some kind of a scam because someone told them something like "all they needed to do was spray a little penetrating oil somewhere". Meanwhile these same people who cut down on our routines have no idea that there is a real way to test and prove what is wrong, and it doesn't even take very long to do it. I don't suppose you have ever been in the position where you spent several hours figuring out a complicated diagnostic situation, only to have the customer then come into the business, after you have proven what the vehicle needs, and be met with an angry and distrusting attitude. I can't tell you how many times someone else has arm chaired a diagnosis, or else under cut the repair pricing once the diagnosis is made when they have not made the investment up front for the education and equipment that was required to identify the root problem. Many times in these cases a customer will treat us like we did something wrong, because they have been misinformed by a third party for whatever reason. BTW, I am relaxed, and I know you really didn't write that to be confrontational. Just remember this, every time something like that happens in the business, and not on some web forum, it costs a small business real money that can never be replaced. In the end it impacts the employees of the business in both continuing education as well as tooling and equipment that they need in order to stay up to date with the technology that is already on the streets today. Some day, and in many ways that day is already here, cars will routinely be presented at the shops with problems that the shop and its techs are not trained and equipped to solve. BTW, its the same symptom, not the same problem unless she somehow got your old door ajar switches into her truck. VBG.....

Once again, thanks so much to all of you who have taken the time to write . . . I so appreciate it !!! Seeking, thanks for your sympathy and idea of searching the make with +problems . . . I did plug that in, and amazingly enough, came up with OTHER problems we've already had with this dang truck !!! On some other sights, I also did find some similar things . . . And, on another entirely different note . . . . I hope your little puppy continues to recover nicely . . .poor little thing .. I was so sorry to hear that . . just an awful thing to have to go through . . . my good thoughts to puppy and you !!! dktrahan, thanks for the Dodge websites . . . I got quite a lot of useful stuff from them . . . I was on the computer last evening . . . late . . so much so, that my poor eyes are tired tired tired today . . . but I am so determined to get to the root of all of this . . . Sue, not to worry . . . but the husband factor in all of this is really trying . . . too much to go into, but basically it's not helping this situation . . .at all !! He's blaming me and DS for even buying a Dodge product to begin with . . . So, wanted to make it clear that my son is being a total champ through all of this . . . Nina, I think that will be the next step . . . to take it back to the original dealer and tell them to just keep it until they get it figured out . . . and IF they can't figure it out, then somehow, I'm going to try to make them responsible for selling us this truck to begin with !! Someone has to take responsibility for this, and to "eat" the loss . . . Don't think it should be us . . . Supposedly the truck was certified, and I'm thinking that's worthless !!! I feel that we're kind of between a rock and a hard place . . . I'm too honest to not disclose problems with the truck if it comes to trading it in . . I certainly don't want anyone else to have to go through this . . . but we just can't afford to have 18K go down the drain, either . . . We don't want another Dodge product, but I'm wondering if we would have more leverage with the selling dealership if we did go with a new Dodge, then get rid of it at another time . . . Oh heck . .. I have such neck strain, headaches and eyes aches through all of this . . . . . Oh, and re: the computer reprogramming . . . I talked with our friend yesterday who originally diagnosed the problem as needing to reprogram the computer . . . He COULD NOT believe that Dodge wouldn't do that . . . could not believe that Dodge said they wouldn't take responsibliy for anything that might go wrong because of the re-programming . . . I asked if he would mind if I had the Dodge guy call him and they could hash it over . . (they are acquaintances, having worked together years ago) He he didn't mind at all . . . called the Dodge guy, he told me WHY he didn't want to re-program it, saying he had to answer to Dodge as to why it was re-programmed when they couldn't get the problem to duplicate . . . said that even if they did re-program it, that that might not be the problem, which I can understand. I told him plain and simple though, that the truck, to us, is not safe to drive. Oh, and another thing . . .in an e-mail from our service adviser yesterday, he said that assuming there is a problem, that it WILL get worse, to the point of engine failure, and THEN we can bring it back and they'll know what to do !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Okay, so digressing a bit . . . back to the main service guy . . . he suggested that they could just keep it and he'd have his techs drive it home at night to try to duplicate the situation . . also saying that his techs were more experienced drivers than my son, and if anything should go wrong on the freeway, that they'd know more how to handle it . . . Now, all of this just does not leave me with warm fuzzy feelings !!!!!!!!!!!! Bill, thanks for the clogged catalytic converter tip. I e-mailed that suggestion, along with a list of other things that I gleaned from some of the Dodge forums. The catalytic problem sounds so much like what's going on with the truck . . . I'm so wondering just exactly what they've done to check into all of this . . . whether it's just driving the truck to try to duplicate the situation, or really getting into it. My friend that has his own shop told me that dealers really don't like working on warranty work . . . at all !! and sometimes do just what they have to to get it out the door. He did highly recommend this dealership, but for the life of me, and maybe I'm just naive . .. but I can't figure out why THEY can't figure out what's going on !!!!! Well, that's the update for today . . . so far anyway . . . Again, I so appreciate all of your posts, suggestions, and sympathy !!!!! Chris

I do get to drive it....not much though! LOL! Dogs in the back Lori???Heh! We got an extended cab so they have a seat! LOL! Honest ...that's why we got one...they have a bench seat in the back.In fact there was a 2006 for only 1000 more and we picked the older one because the 06 had two tiny seats instead of the bench...we're a bunch of dorks in this house!LOL! Larry said I'll get my Wrangler next time..I can picture it...bright red with black trim....oh yeah! Going through my second childhood! My mother has a fit because we like to switch cars after a couple years,she keeps hers til her feet are dragging through the floorboards! LOL!