Taking apart the dash today...what should I do?!

Lewis&Clark

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Courtesy of J.A.'s electrical engineering brilliance, I'm installing my navigation override module today.

As long as the dash is taken apart, are there any other reasonably quick mods I can do while I'm in there?

They should be fairly quick to do as I can't afford to have my car in pieces beyond this evening.

Suggestions welcome!
 
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Courtesy of J.A.'s electrical engineering brilliance, I'm installing my navigation override module today.

As long as the dash is taken apart, are there any other reasonably quick mods I can do while I'm in there?

They should be fairly quick to do as I can't afford to have my car in pieces beyond this evening.

Suggestions welcome!

If your Runner has over 100k on the clock, and you have not yet changed out your evaporator, now would probably be a good time. It's a $300.00 part, but labor to replace it is about a grand, as it is located behind the dash, against the firewall. And, IT WILL BEGIN LEAKING SOON, if it hasn't already. I know it is not a mod, but I'm just trying to help you save some $$ and a huge pain in the ass.
 
Might as well replace bulbs while you have it open. Not disagreeing with Preacher on checking evaporator but I will disagree about it going out soon. I have 180k and no leaking evaporator so 100k isn't necessarily true.
 
I agree. No need to talk the evap out. Besides, when removing the center console (HVAC/Radio/etc), you are not taking the whole dash out. To get to the evap, you have to remove everything. so yeah, no need to .
 

Thanks JA. I thought about doing that one, but the more I thought about it, the more I felt like it's a function that I'm often glad the car does have, even though I do on occasion find it annoying. Someday, I might work out an improvement on your mod that connects the disabling to a switch, but it's a low priority compared to some of the other mods I need to do sooner for more urgent functional reasons.

Speaking of which -- are you selling pre-built modules for Anytime Backup Camera and/or the Nav Video/Anytime Backup Camera? I'd really like to get my hands on an Anytime Backup Camera module. I don't think I need the nav video for now. Maybe when my kids are older and I finally cave in on my insistence that they enjoy the great outdoors and not get consumed by a screen on their seat. But for now, I run video for the front passengers off an iPad Air mounted using a professional Joy Factory seat bolt mount and through AV system and that's good enough. But the anytime backup camera function is probably very high on my list of next mods since it'd be quite helpful in a lot of situations. Towing being one, but many for sure. I'm a software engineer, not a mechanic or electrician. So it's a big enough (and rewarding!) challenge for me to install these modules, but I'm in no position to begin assembling circuit boards on my own.


dt
 
Thanks JA. I thought about doing that one, but the more I thought about it, the more I felt like it's a function that I'm often glad the car does have, even though I do on occasion find it annoying. Someday, I might work out an improvement on your mod that connects the disabling to a switch, but it's a low priority compared to some of the other mods I need to do sooner for more urgent functional reasons.

Speaking of which -- are you selling pre-built modules for Anytime Backup Camera and/or the Nav Video/Anytime Backup Camera? I'd really like to get my hands on an Anytime Backup Camera module. I don't think I need the nav video for now. Maybe when my kids are older and I finally cave in on my insistence that they enjoy the great outdoors and not get consumed by a screen on their seat. But for now, I run video for the front passengers off an iPad Air mounted using a professional Joy Factory seat bolt mount and through AV system and that's good enough. But the anytime backup camera function is probably very high on my list of next mods since it'd be quite helpful in a lot of situations. Towing being one, but many for sure. I'm a software engineer, not a mechanic or electrician. So it's a big enough (and rewarding!) challenge for me to install these modules, but I'm in no position to begin assembling circuit boards on my own.


dt

No sorry, there just isnt the demand for these. I've only received a handful of requests in the almost four years since I have done this mod. In lieu of producing these I have put out a full write up and am happy to answer questions along the way.
Toyota 4Runner Anytime Backup Camera Mod
 

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