let me put my 2 cents in you all still don't get it we have a staff of 20 members that mod and admin a forum with over 28.000 members try and edit and clean everyones post and you will be on here 24 hours a day. all forty is getting at is the little kiddy posting and bad spelling is getting old and on other forums it would be deleted end of story. and giving an example of a 3 year old kid messing up your house is not the same as this we are talking about people over 20 years old that should know how to conduct them selfs on a forum without supervision. and you say we shouldn't have taken the mod job cause (if you didn't want to do stuff that actually TOOK TIME.) we do take the time to make sure the forum runs smoothly and keep it free of trolls/scammers and spammers we have more responsibilities then you will ever know. so if you don't like whats being posted in this thread hit the back button. and all of this started cause forty originally posted this. all he was doing was giving some constructive criticism then the op blew it out of hand what tony said is not bashing but you and the op started bashing on him so it had better stop right now. kthxbye

I will tell you right now, that there is no way this is getting posted in the DIY section until I see the following things


1 - English, with accurate spelling
2 - Sentence Structure
3 - No LMAO's, randomly capitalized words, etc.

These are meant to help people learn, so let's try and keep it professional.

 

If you guys are against listening and considering other people in this topic why wasn't this thread closed long before it started to get out of hand?

 

Yoshi your kid analysis is a good one, but it is flawed, making a child clean up their mess would only work if the child knows what to clean up.. and what better way to clean up the mess then to prevent it in the first place... think of it this way... a parent is out shopping with their 5 year old, the child wants a toy, the parent says no.The child then begins to throw a tantrum, and will not stop no matter waht the parent says/does... the parent, humiliated and embarassed by the consistant childish behavior, has to then teach the child how to behave in a public place to prevent these circumstances in the future. Yes i know that the parent should have tought the child in the first palce, but lets say that they are more of a guardian that just got custody of the child, and their actions had nothing to do with the childs upbringing.

Well we are the guardian, and people acting childish are the child... and our actions are our way of saying smarten the hell up in a public place. this is a forum of almost 28,000 members and having to make 28,000 children act appropriately is impossible... so we set limitations, and rules... it's this simple... follow those rules... or don't post... take it or leave it

 

a 4 page thread could have been avoided with one simple PM....

 

Lol ^+1

 

Yoshi if you can at least add the pics to your edit I'll post it up. I'd do it myself but 56K pwns me and I can't seem to get the words right because I can't see the pictures.

That and I think I accidentily posted the unedited version on LS1tech somewhere... whoops!

 

Ya I'll finish it tomorrow, it's much too late to do that shtuff tonight. Then you mods can lock this and be done with it as I tried to do before this got out of hand

 

Thanks, just let me know when you do and I'll put it in the DIY section.

 

im done with this...........
if you need to find the pictures easier
http://s40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...vic%20project/
and some more pictures of them on another page 2
http://s40.photobucket.com/albums/e2...ject/?start=40

 

Sorry for not having all of the pictures, but I already did the install before I was asked to do a DIY for this. I have a few pictures, but be warned – you definitely want to wear some gloves or something because the metal under the dash is very sharp. I have cuts all around my hands, but then again I had them in and out several time. It’s really easy to do but a pain in the butt at the same time, to make easier you can remove the passenger seat.

Tools needed: Philips screw driver, soldering gun and solder, LEDs, cold cathodes, or lights of your choice.

1: Remove lower center dash trim panel, 2 screws in the middle going up and one on each side of the panel lower down. Then the trim piece/ cigarette lighter will come off. Now there is a small wire harness, simply push the release button on it and pull the plugs apart and then lay the trim piece to the side. Now here is one thing that depends on your car – the radio. Mine has an aftermarket radio in it with a metal cage. So you have to remove your radio and if it uses a steel mounting cage you have to remove it, it can be annoying, especially depending on how many tabs are in place.




After you have the radio removed the easier parts come, but they’re very tedious. The A/C controls have several wiring harnesses on it, there’s a large plug that goes down behind the trim panel, it’s tied to a metal frame. I personally just took a razor blade and freed the harness. If you follow the large harness you’ll see another small plug that sits level about half way up, unplug it the same way. Now I believe all the wire harnesses are unplugged from the controls, look inside the dash again and follow the A/C controls to see the slide rod that controls the temperature flapper. Look at how it runs through the inside of the dash. I didn’t and when I put it back in I binded the slide cable. Look at the picture below for a reference on how the black cable slide is ran through the dash. Simply push down the tab and pull the cable out.



Now that all of the wires and cables are disconnected, you have three Philip screws to remove. I don’t have a picture of them but below is a picture of where the screws go – two on the right, next to the outside, and one that’s a little towards the rear. The rear one is easy to get to, but the other two are a pain in the butt.



Now that those three screws are removed just slowly pull out the climate controls.

Part 2: Modifying your climate controls

Here is a picture of those two wire harness plugs I mentioned first








Now that the controls are out of the desk, remove the fan switch unit. There are two plastic prongs that hold it in, simply push them in and pull the control unit out the back. First disconnect the green wire harness and then the rest will come off.






Now there is a round plastic clip that holds on the other metal control rod. This plastic clip is tough to get off, just work at it and turn it so it slides over and lifts off. Then just pull the rod out of the pivot point.






Now there’s that black metal part that runs over the unit. There are two screws on both sides and I think there was one in the middle as well, remove those and pull the black metal part off and set it to the side.






Now start pulling these little snaps to pull the face off. There are two on top and one on each side. Now that the face is off, take off the rear casing, three snaps on top. I think there’s a screw in there, but it’s also a clip, be sure to pull it back as well, it’s in the middle.






With those popped over a little the case should slide out, but they will be a little tight.



Now you have the board.




Pull the lights straight out and snip the wires off. And now you start adding your lighting, if you flip the controls over where the wires are soldered on the back of the board this what the wires are –







Solder your positive and negative wires from your lighting source to those terminals. I used dual 4 inch cathodes. To use cold cathodes you want to remove the bulb from their casing. Simply power them up for a few minutes then slightly pull on the end where the wires go in, the head of the lights being on should warm the flue enough and the bulbs just slide out.




Now I used some hot glue to glue the bulbs in to the climate control housing. BE VERY CAREFULL WITH THE BULBS! Make sure the bare wires don’t touch each other.






Run the wires through the bulb opening




Now the easy plugs those wire in to the cold cathodes transformer and snap it all together.





After snapping the unit back together and such I only reinstalled the rear mounting screw on the controls because those front 2 angled screws were a pain to remove and I didn’t want to reinstall them.

Part 3: If you removed you’re A/C system

You can modify the wires and use some relays to wire in your own toys, lights, security, etc.




Just cut these two wires,