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looking at the world wide web.. may have found a harness...
Build Do I have your attention.... I call it VERA.
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Ditcherman
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I’ve got that same seat in my 40, actually 4 of them. My advice is to make SURE the airbag wires are unhooked first; before applying any power.
I was not aware of that harness, not sure if it’s for just the heat or the power too?
Are you aware that to use the seat for more than 5 seconds at a time you have to fool it into thinking it’s hooked up to canbus?
Some hassle but so worth it in my book.
What vendor? Who makes it?
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Actually, it looks like this is the side I need to find a harness for….
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Ditcherman
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I never even considered using a harness to that, maybe I went down the wrong path. I think we pinned out to that some, but also some individual wires that we cut loose from there. I can get pics and info/links that worked for me if you want.
There's a ton of info out there for converting these seats to other applications and they never went that way so I didn't either. If you can, go for it I guess but no one mentioned it that I read about.
Lots of pinout info out there, but it does vary slightly by year IIRC.
If you accidentally put power to an airbag it will go, just what I was told.
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Super information! Yes, I think we met down at SMORR a few months ago and talked about the seats. Thanks for the reminder about the 555 switch to keep them from sleeping!
Should I cut the airbag wires, or is there a way to easily identify and unplug them?
We did a set of those in a 40. All you need is a 555 timer that gets powered on to send a pulse (don't remember the frequency) and they work and have memory.
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holy hand grenades... great thread here...
thanks @BurntToast
BMW Seat Swap PT1 - Electrical
Today we are playing electrical engineer. To start many of the connectors on the bottom of the seats were cut, but after some testing and new tools, I narrowed down the total pins on each seat to their essentials.
Pinout can be viewed here(google doc for pinout) and tenative wiring diagram here.
This is the BMW Diagram, and is mostly accurate
Power supply testing, for pinouts, but also to measure nominal current draws.
Seat heating elements wiring
Seat module wiring for drivers side...
Today we are playing electrical engineer. To start many of the connectors on the bottom of the seats were cut, but after some testing and new tools, I narrowed down the total pins on each seat to their essentials.
Pinout can be viewed here(google doc for pinout) and tenative wiring diagram here.
This is the BMW Diagram, and is mostly accurate
Power supply testing, for pinouts, but also to measure nominal current draws.
Seat heating elements wiring
Seat module wiring for drivers side...
thanks @BurntToast
Sure thing! Happy to help if you needholy hand grenades... great thread here...
BMW Seat Swap PT1 - Electrical
Today we are playing electrical engineer. To start many of the connectors on the bottom of the seats were cut, but after some testing and new tools, I narrowed down the total pins on each seat to their essentials.
Pinout can be viewed here(google doc for pinout) and tenative wiring diagram here.
This is the BMW Diagram, and is mostly accurate
Power supply testing, for pinouts, but also to measure nominal current draws.
Seat heating elements wiring
Seat module wiring for drivers side...
thanks @BurntToast
Ditcherman
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It’s been a while, but IIRC we just taped up the connector after determining nothing else we did could send voltage to that circuit.
I did use 80 series seat heater switches for the heat, high and low and looks Toyota and they work great.
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Any idea of a part number or what car I’ll be looking for the junkyard for high and low switches?
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Got the fuel line made, FYI used 45° on the 8 mm line that is the same as a 5/16 in the press. I wanted to keep the fuel lines away from the exhaust as much as possible so looped back from the filter to connect to the steel line going up to the engine.
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ordered... thanks,
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anyone done a 2uz swap? Trying to figure out where all the lines to the vapor cannister go to and hints on wiring it up? Harness came from a stripped tundra if I recall, but I have no room for cannister under hood, so I grabbed a 4runner cannister setup that was mounted back by the fuel tank. Here’s what I know….. looks like one line goes from the tank to the vapor canister…. And one line from the canister goes to some other small canister nearby…. Then that goes somewhere…. Question one … where does that go? See circled image below. Question two is on my gas tank on what to connect where…. I have one thing at the top of my tank — recall it’s a 80 Series tank…. It’s called a valve assy fuel cut off. Part 77380–26010. Is that what I connect to the canister?
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Here’s my canister in the extra small thing close to it.
Ditcherman
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95 bucks for the pair here, where I got mine.
Same part number as BurntToast posted.
They were kind enough to call and make sure I understood I had ordered two pairs and that’s what I needed, not just two switches.
ETA oops should have read through, You got 'em!
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thanks for the other option... actually, found them on ebay for about the same price from another vendor...
95 bucks for the pair here, where I got mine.
Same part number as BurntToast posted.
They were kind enough to call and make sure I understood I had ordered two pairs and that’s what I needed, not just two switches.
ETA oops should have read through, You got 'em!
Now to tear out an old 80 series harness to see if I have the plugs that go into them. crazy that these switches were never put on a US market 80 series, but the harness was still in the car for them.
Pretty sure rob plumbed that vapor canister in his swap. And I've seen the same thing under the prius. Gotta be similar plumbing