Very nice looking truck Smitty. I own a 2001 Quad Cab 4x4 myself with the 8ft bed that I mainly use for towing my 12,000 lb toyhauler 5th wheel. If you plan on doing any regular towing, I'd definitely recommend you getting the aftermarket FASS system and the extra Fuel Pressure, Pyro, and Turbo Boost gauges so you have a better idea of what's going on under your hood.
Also, do you know if your truck has the infamous #53 block in it or not? Cummins cast their blocks back then at plants in both Brazil and Mexico, and the Brizilian blocks (Stamped #53), were cast too thin on the passenger side of the block, back towards the firewall. So many of them cracked as the mileage on the engines went up or if they were hot rodded. I baby my truck, but my block still cracked at about 60,000 miles. Dodge and Cummins initially told me that I was S.O.L., but the Cummins regional customer service rep heard the recording of my phone call with their Customer Service Dept. and he decided to get involved and make things right. After some haggeling with Cummins, they eventually agreed to replace my defective engine block. I still had to shell out 5K from my own pocket to cover the labor charge, but they covered the replacement block, gasket kits, and other items which ran them about 5K too. If you need more info. on this let me know.....
Also, on Ebay for sale right now for your truck is a limited production OEM factory original, under rear seat (lockable) storage 'box'. This is part number 82204470 and it was only made for a limited time for the 1999-2001 model trucks like ours. The Ebay vendor has 7 of these left since I bought one from him yesterday.
And I did not pay the $135 asking price. His pictures make it a little tough to visualize how this thing actually works, so here's a pic of it installed that I found on another site.... With this installed, when you lower your rear now it latches onto this and you can lock it.
