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Electrical

This week I need to paint the roll cage bar and all new weld locations, but I have been annoyed for a long time that the metal dash support is all rusted, so I wanted to do something about it while I get into painting. As was putting away the wiring, I decided to try removing unnecessary the wires related to radio and airbags.

The airbags wires, always terminated by a yellow plug, join to a central control box located behind the dash usb plug. Then 2 looms go out, one on the driver side and one on the passenger side.

I did not know how interconnected of the airbag wiring was so I decided to undo/untape the main wire loom on the driver side. After spending a few hours on that, I can safely say they you coud simply cut all wires going to a yellow plug and pull them out of the main driver side harness. Anyways, I felt more at ease doing it nice and slow. I was also able to remove all the radio wires going to the amplifier.

Cables reference from wiring manual:
HD2 (radio amplifier) completely removed starting at driver feet to the rear seat driver side.
HD1 pins:
8+9 (speakers)
24 (buckle switch)
18 (driver door light switch)
H17 (airbag sensor) all cables leaving out of that box up their other ends on driver and passenger side.

Next I have to remove the radio cables going to the center console but these are going to be a pain, no sure if I'll do it.

For the AC system, I think I'll keep them in place, even though the HVAC box can't fit anymore in the stock location, I am not loosing hope to bring the AC back into the car. By simply having the evaporator piped/wired in... but that's another project.