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If you look at the table (last photo above), I was basically trying to decipher the 16 pins (16 wires) on the 80 elocker ECU, the two 8 pin connectors on the TRD elockers (7 wires), the switch and two LED's.
Starting with the Rear elocker, I cut the 8 pin connector off the wiring harness and wired the 7 wires (one pin isn't used) to the 6 conductor trailer wire as shown. The trailer wire colors were arbitrarily assigned. Your wire may have different colors.
As an example, you can see that the Yellow-Blue (yellow with a blue stripe) was connected to the brown wire on the trailer wire. You will notice that there are two White-B (white with a black stripe) out of the 7 elocker wires. These were wired together to the black trailer wire.
I used special butt connectors for all of these connections that you crimp and then heat. They have heat shrink tubing and a solder pellet integral to the connector. I then put two layers of heavy wall, adhesive lined, heat shrink tubing over the outside of everything. I know that this was a bit obsessive but $50 in connectors seemed like small change at the time.
I then did the same for the front elocker and both trailer cords were then pulled to the elocker ECU.
I chose to mount the elocker ECU just below the fuse panel located in the driver's side kick panel. If you have cruise control then you will probably not have room to mount your panel there. In my 4Runner, there was an aftermarket cruise control ECU in this location which I removed. You can see the pigtail and connector for the cruise control hanging down in one of the photos.
I routed the rear trailer cord up and over the gas tank and then followed the brake lines up into the engine compartment on the passenger side. I then went into the passenger side, behind the AC vents through an existing grommet (see photo). The wires went up, along the top of the AC ducting, over (but behind) the instrument cluster and down into the driver's side kick panel. I had to take apart my dash to do this but I was taking it apart anyway as I was installing a new (used) dash pad.
The front elocker trailer cord basically went straight up and to the right where it also went through this grommet and followed the same path. It was a tight fit through the grommet as this trailer cord OD is almost 1/2" but I got it to go. A bit of warning, this routing (front and rear) took quite a bit of wire and I must have used at least 25' of the 6 conductor trailer cord in the end.
Here are some pics:
Last edited by WarDamnEagle; 09-04-08 at 05:06 AM.
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