TRX Steering Wheel with Paddle Shifters

[Pejcinoski]

TRX Steering Wheel Swap

Anyone swapped a TRX steering wheel onto a rebel yet? Part numbers? Would like to swap out for one with red stitching...

5thgenrams.com

You need to buy a ton of other parts not just the wheel.

Have you done it?

Can you share what we need to get it working?

 

[Darksteel165]

Have you done it?

Can you share what we need to get it working?

You can read the thread I linked you.
I'm still figuring out what extra parts I need, but I can shift manually yes.

 

[CJ99X]

Dan you please share the link where exactly I can look for more info?

I was on the gladiator forum and they have one going as well that they have working 392 Steering Wheel Retrofit

 

[Darksteel165]

I was on the gladiator forum and they have one going as well that they have working 392 Steering Wheel Retrofit

I didn't read through all 32 pages of that thread, but I don't see a single TRX wheel on any of those.

The electronics on the wheel are differnet too so you wouldn't be able to use the existing and probably looking at around $3000 for all of the parts inside the wheel assuming you can get a wiring harness that connects to the differnet buttons for a Ram.

The wheel they are swapping is a wheel that can come on a Jeep, not a Ram.

 

[Agon]

I've had a trx wheel in my bighorn for 6 months now. the paddles just do the gear limiter function, as I have not been able to figure how to flash my TCM

I’m in the process of swapping out steering wheel. 2022 TRX on my 2022 bighorn. Did the heating element swap ok with all controls? Did you ever flash your TCM to make work the paddle shifter or are they just going to be gear limiter function indefinitely.

 

[Darksteel165]

I’m in the process of swapping out steering wheel. 2022 TRX on my 2022 bighorn. Did the heating element swap ok with all controls? Did you ever flash your TCM to make work the paddle shifter or are they just going to be gear limiter function indefinitely.

You can't swap the healing element, it's built into wheel.
Rest of controls swap fine, but you do need to buy the front and rear trim if you want to use paddles, and yes you will need to flash your TCM to think it's an GT model if you want paddle shifters to work normal.

 

[Lefurgey]

You can't swap the healing element, it's built into wheel.
Rest of controls swap fine, but you do need to buy the front and rear trim if you want to use paddles, and yes you will need to flash your TCM to think it's an GT model if you want paddle shifters to work normal.

Do you have a link to the front and rear trim needed and also how to flash the TCM?

 

[Kyle40367]

Yes, someone finally got them working. Having etorque would be ideal. The TCM needs to be flashed to a G/T calibration, and some changes with AlfaOBD. Since the G/T is only available with etorque, the TCM calibration is looking for the hydraulic solenoid accumulator, which isn’t present on a non-etorque transmission. Without etorque, that fault would be stored, but there aren’t any driveability issues

With this being said, I already have the etorque,5.7, auto 4wd, would the TCM still need to be flashed to the G/T calibration? Or would alfa obd and the physical paddle shifters and trim be sufficient to make it work?

 

[RWL11]

Hey! So I have a brand new DC650, and one of the things I miss the most are the paddle shifters, which I have in my 23 Challenger Scat Pack WB.
From what I can surmise from this revived thread, I can buy a newer TRX steering wheel, and have the BCM flashed to make the paddles work?
Heck, I have a set of the paddles, but I'm not thinking those are plug and play.

 

[mike_ct]

what's in that truck currently for shifter + wheel. is it dial or console? does it have the traditional gear limit +/- wheel buttons?

myself and others have swapped in TRX wheels, and they are plug and play. no BCM flashing is necessary. They work immediately and do the SAME functions as the gear buttons.

If you want to make them shift on demand like paddles are suppose to work, you need to flash the TCM to a TCM version that has shift mapping for the paddle modes. We're using the rebel/laramie GT truck TCM (for e-torque trucks) or the wrangler 392SRT TCM (for non e-torque trucks). HPTuners will work with both flashes to modify shifting further if desired quicker shifts, etc.


HOWEVER - no idea on your DC650. That's going to be on the new architecture verses our older can-bus BCM's, and no idea what TCM flash that truck currently has and what it supports.


Also, our steering wheels didn't have the metal casting on the wheel frame to screw the paddle switches in to, thus the need to swap the entire wheel. Also, you'd need the internal steering wheel harness, although you can probably hack that together if you were so inclined.


First step in experimenting is get a wheel and plug it in. Thats what I did and figured out the rest.