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While working on the interior items last night trying to get all the heater box items mounted and electrical plugged in, I noticed that there was only a hot wire for heater/AC from the American Autowire kit I installed. Since it has been I while since I installed it I was not sure what needed to be done. One thing I did know was that I wanted to make sure as I put things back together I only did this once. There is nothing worse than having to disassemble items from the dash because you forgot something or missed a wire.

I sorted through my old wiring that I tore out and found most of what I needed and proceeded to rebuild that section so it would also be new like the rest of the truck. Also when putting the heater back together you need to plug into the resistor inside the heater box and then it loops over to the AC compressor switch mounted on the outside of the heater box, then another out to the actual fan motor mounted on the firewall. Another set from this loom sends wire back over to the AC switch mounted on the heater/AC control, with that being said if not done now then I would have to tear apart a bunch of the items from the dash to do this. Luckily it looks like I had enough left over connectors and wire from the kit to just make it up myself instead having to purchase a separate add-on from American Autowire.

Here are the tools I used for the electrical install, got them on Amazon and they really make the job of crimping the connectors properly an ease. The ratcheting crimping kit was $72 and the stripper/cutter was $29.