Pakmule
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Yesterday I started the project of pulling the Raytheon RL70 from my 2000 310.
The first part was to pull the wiring harness which went fairly smoothly except the part where I put my multimeter on two wires to see if they were hot and promptly blew a 3.5 amp fuse in the foldout breaker box under the steering wheel.
Pulling out the unit itself was pretty straightforward as it just had a knurled knob at each corner. After pulling it out I had a big hole in my dash that is not even remotely big enough to hold the new Garmin unit
As the Garmin unit is much larger than the Raytheon I decided that I was going to end up cutting so much of the padded dash cover that it would probably just fall apart or be extremely difficult to stabilize. I am not a big fan of it anyway so I went ahead and completely removed it with the idea of laying something else down in it's place. Here is what I am left with after I removed the padded cover. Not pretty.
Here is the dash cover itself. I need to find something to replace it with that is sturdy enough to hold the GPS unit, stereo control, radio and depth finder readout.
Any suggestions? I was thinking a piece of matching fiberglass or if I could find it, a piece of fiberglass that matches the other fake wood.
I will post more as I make headway.
The first part was to pull the wiring harness which went fairly smoothly except the part where I put my multimeter on two wires to see if they were hot and promptly blew a 3.5 amp fuse in the foldout breaker box under the steering wheel.
Pulling out the unit itself was pretty straightforward as it just had a knurled knob at each corner. After pulling it out I had a big hole in my dash that is not even remotely big enough to hold the new Garmin unit
As the Garmin unit is much larger than the Raytheon I decided that I was going to end up cutting so much of the padded dash cover that it would probably just fall apart or be extremely difficult to stabilize. I am not a big fan of it anyway so I went ahead and completely removed it with the idea of laying something else down in it's place. Here is what I am left with after I removed the padded cover. Not pretty.
Here is the dash cover itself. I need to find something to replace it with that is sturdy enough to hold the GPS unit, stereo control, radio and depth finder readout.
Any suggestions? I was thinking a piece of matching fiberglass or if I could find it, a piece of fiberglass that matches the other fake wood.
I will post more as I make headway.