A/C Controls Relocated

by stephen mcgroarty 5/10/2008 4:45:50 PM

Ok, this post goes under the How-To section I don't have. But it is basically how to relocated the air condisioner controls from the stock location

 

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To the glove box

 

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This is a bit drawn out and not for everyone, so if you are interested click

First off you more then likely know how to take your bezel off and get to your stereo, so I am skipping that part.

Tools Required:

  • 7MM Screw Driver
  • Cutting tool (I used a drill but a hand saw would be preferred)

 

1. e your glove box off, there are three 7MM screws at the bottom of it, they might be hidden under the dash trim if you have the cab trim (non SL models)

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2. Remove your bezel from around the A/C, stereo, gauges

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3. remove the A/C Controls, I also removed my radio to give me some more room to work with

 

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4. at this part I cute a couple of holes in the back of the glove box to make room for wires. It is your choice on how many holes, I had wanted 1 hole but made a mistake so I got two.

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5. as with any project, before making more holes then needed make sure that the controls will fit how i want them. so i just did a dry fit on them, and this worked out ok

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6. I am using zip ties to hold my controls in place, so I drilled two holes on each side to allow the zip ties to go through

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7. Next was to remount the glove box, and see if my holes were big enough for the wires.

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I had to unwrap the control wires from the harness under the stereo, this gave me about three more inches and that was enough to get the wires to reach fully into the glove box and plugin to the controller

8. plug in the wires and mount it up. this part was a pain so if you have smaller hands you will do better at it. I started with the vacuum hoses and the moved from that side to the other with the wires and connections.

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9. Close the glove box and make sure it all works. I started the car, then used the controls to make sure that the A/C worked. I blew cold, and warm, and on the fan speeds I choose, so it works.

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10. Put it all back together.

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That is about it, not to hard of a processes and took about 2 hours total. This is including time to slack in the middle, it was maybe 30 minutes of real work and that was making the holes.

I am also going to post this on S10 Forum later today because someone had requested a how to on this.

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5/11/2008 12:25:48 AM

Dave

Looks good. good job on the funky cutting of the box. hahaha and zip ties a mini truckers best friend!

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5/11/2008 5:00:14 AM

Stephen McGroarty

box was cut funky cause i dont have a saw :-D but I think it is ok being that it was a drill that did the cutting.

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5/13/2008 4:35:51 PM

Kobold

Thats almost cute!!
So you put one of those little "There was a hole and now a storage space to put things in" plastic doo-hickies in the hole, Im guessing?


pssss spell check and proof read, mmkay?

and gravatar hates me

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5/13/2008 10:01:25 PM

Stephen McGroarty

Oh no there is nothing where the A/C controls are currently. I am going to put the air ride gauges there for kicks and giggles. Ok not really kicks and giggles but because they look really clean there. After I get the truck back from the shop I will have A LOT of photos of what they did.

And I have never used gravatar before this, seems to work for me.

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