I might travel down to a yard this weekend and see what I can dig up...this yard is pretty huge, if I find one, I'll let you know. Either way, running a 8 conductor wire is simple enough but the splicing was really tough under the dash.Towncivilian wrote:I removed the overhead ... thing and I don't have the harness there. I looked and felt around in the headliner and didn't find one. Looks like I'd need to make my own or find a junkyard harness. Time to scour the local junkyards.
Do you have the harness under the glove box?Towncivilian wrote:I removed the overhead ... thing and I don't have the harness there. I looked and felt around in the headliner and didn't find one. Looks like I'd need to make my own or find a junkyard harness. Time to scour the local junkyards.
I haven't checked yet. Is that where it would be, just coiled up there if it were present?ltsnotme wrote:Do you have the harness under the glove box?Towncivilian wrote:I removed the overhead ... thing and I don't have the harness there. I looked and felt around in the headliner and didn't find one. Looks like I'd need to make my own or find a junkyard harness. Time to scour the local junkyards.
Yeah, well, not coiled 'cause it's pretty short, but it's up there sort of where the a-pillar meets the fender, and the connector is pinned to the body. I have bad news for you though: I painted my console today. So don't count on it. I'm probably going to wire it up next Saturday, if I have the time.Towncivilian wrote:I haven't checked yet. Is that where it would be, just coiled up there if it were present?ltsnotme wrote:
Do you have the harness under the glove box?
I've been wanting to do this for a while, and after monitoring this thread, decided to visit the wrecking yard yesterday.Saltshaker wrote: I might travel down to a yard this weekend and see what I can dig up...this yard is pretty huge, if I find one, I'll let you know. Either way, running a 8 conductor wire is simple enough but the splicing was really tough under the dash.
Good luck on your install but once you have everything, its not that hard and it shouldnt take that long to do. I already checked a few yards around me and they dont have any Pathfinders which sucks. I'd say you are lucky to be able to go to one and pick parts from it, wish I was able to do the same.Buzzman wrote:I've been wanting to do this for a while, and after monitoring this thread, decided to visit the wrecking yard yesterday.
I've been there before to take parts off a 2001 LE.
It still had the overhead console with the temp gauge, etc., so I took it off.
There were 3 harnesses there. One for the lights, one for the temp display and one for the moon roof buttons.
My 2002 Chilkoot only has one harness.....for the courtesy lights.
I ripped out the harness from the LE. Not an easy job, even when not being careful.
I cut part of the headliner out, and popped the 'A' pillar cover. That was the easy part.
The harness runs down behind the dash, to a plug up behind the blower motor housing.
Removing the glove box was not enough. I had to rip out the blower motor housing to reach the plug. It is WAAYY up there.
I haven't attempted to install it, or even look, in my own rig yet.
I think it will be a tough job. Might have to wait until spring.
At least I have the interior parts though. I still have to look into sourcing and wiring the temp sensor thingy that mounts under the hood. That's next.
Cheers.
Ya, I got lucky with this one. I called around this spring looking for a Pathfinder/QX4 from 2001-2004, and this particular yard (10 minutes away) told me about this 2001 LE that recently arrived.Saltshaker wrote:
I already checked a few yards around me and they dont have any Pathfinders which sucks. I'd say you are lucky to be able to go to one and pick parts from it, wish I was able to do the same.
Nice.Buzzman wrote:Hey folks, Just finished installing my new overhead console (from an '01 LE junker.).
As mentioned earlier, I didn't have the sensor or the console harness in my Chilkoot, so I had to install both.
I ripped the harness from the junkyard '01 LE, and bought a temp sensor from the dealer ($40.00).
The hardest thing was finding that M62 plug under the dash (in my truck.)
At first I didn't think it was there, but I finally found it, buried deep inside and up under the dash, behind the blower fan assembly.
Scraped my knuckles getting it free.
Anyway, I finished installing it today, and it works perfectly.
I'm a happy Canuck.
Here are some picks:
First pic is my step one: testing the console, after installing the harness, but before running everything up and into the roof liner., etc.
Next job was running the harness up and into the headliner to the console locator.
Mounting the unit and putting everything back was last.
Also, I don't have a sunroof, so I took out the switches and installed the dummy cover.
Well, yeah, one of the wires in your harness under the dash is connected to the speedometer. Presumably, the thermometer adjusts the temperature reading based on the speed of the vehicle, since the temp. sensor will have different outputs depending on the airflow around it.Buzzman wrote:Itsnotme: I didn't have to do anything re: speedometer input. My '02 Pathy had the harness already under the dash, passenger side, above the blower motor (connector M62 I think).
It also had the harness/connector at the top/front of the radiator (under the hood) for the temp sensor. All I had to do was buy a sensor and plug it in.
I picked the overhead console harness from a wrecker and wired it in. I only had to add the ground wire to make it all work.
So far the temperature readings have been accurate.
I also have a 2006 Altima with a temp gauge, and checking the two of them, they are always within one degree of each other.
Its kinda funny, that console is being shipped from Surrey BC, which is like 40 min from meTowncivilian wrote:I bought this '98 tan OHC for only $30 shipped: http://www.ebay.com/itm/350458928295?ss ... 255wt_1110
I'll just need to peel off that nasty looking "Chilkoot" sticker and find a wiring harness and air temperature sensor now. Can anybody scour their local junkyards to find either of them for me?
EDIT: I added this topic to the How-To sticky under Upgrades.
That's where I got my harness (and OHC): at a junkyard, from a 2001 LE.Towncivilian wrote: I just need to find or make the wiring harness for the console itself now. I'll try finding a pigtail at the junkyard that fits the M62 plug and just run my own wires between it and the OHC, because I probably won't have any luck finding the complete harness at a junkyard.
The 6 pin plug is probably there, like you said. I didn't find mine until my fourth attempt. I was almost ready to give up on it.Towncivilian wrote:I tried to find the 6-pin plug behind my glovebox, but was unable to. I decided to forget about it.
It turns out that I have the second plug required for the ambient temperature sensor used by the overhead console, so I probably have the 6-pin plug behind the glovebox too. I decided to chop off the pigtail used by the automatic climate control temperature sensor and solder quick disconnects on, then run my own wiring for the OHC ambient temperature sensor into the cab and to the OHC.
The OHC display read northwest the entire drive home, presumably because it requires one of the sensors' input, neither of which are plugged in yet.
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