Keyless Entry installed - 1986 C10 Silverado

[ninety6]

Today's project was installing Keyless Entry into power-lock equipped C10. One night out on the town using a key to unlock the car like a heathen made me look into this.

Found this one for about $16 on amazon, had decent reviews, so i bought it! Had a little trouble hooking it up -- between my lack of understanding of relays and such, and the chinese translated directions.... but with a little help from my dad i got it figured out.

Video of truck after it's intalled:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpN-VSR9L48

This is the product on amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/YueYueZou-Uni...dp/B01F2SWX2C/

Initially I hooked it up to send 12v to the lock motors from the keyless module. However, that didn't work due to the way the truck is wired. So instead, i hooked it to the switch wires (light blue and black/white) coming from the drive door just above the kick panel. Works perfectly...

So, if you do this -- use the light blue and black/white wires on the truck... not the tan and gray.

Fun toy for $16!

[Shugalou]

Thanks for sharing this. You have me interested in installing this...

Did you happen to photograph the process of installing to make it easier for us English readers

Do you need power window to tap into to make this work?

Thanks

[ninety6]

unfortunately no pictures... but it's actually pretty simple... once i figured out to use the SWITCH wires and not the lock motor wires..

you do not need power windows. If you have (working) power locks, you are good, here's what i did:

Unit wire color - function <---> Car wire color - Location
White - Lock (close) < --- > Light Blue - Kick panel wires from door
Yellow (+12v) < --- > red wire - firewall
white/black - Unlock (open) <---> black/white [verifying! what i wrote down it different than my memory]- kick panel wires from door
yellow/black (+12v) <---> red wire - firewall
Red - unit power <---> red wire - firewall
Black - ground <---> black [verifying! what i wrote down it different than my memory] - kick panel wires from door, but just any ground will work
Brown - parking lights <---> brown - wire off light switch in dash

The rest of the wires i didn't hook up to anything.

After trying to splice the wiring without cutting and being unsuccessful (accidentally cut through wires due to lack of working space and lack of slack) i ended up using the little tap in connectors. I usually avoid them and splice/solder, but it was just too difficult, and these are inside connections.

I connected a pigtail/extension to the red wire on main harness from firewall to give me +12v to everything, and soldered in that pigtail to my 12v wires listed above (just connected all 3 at once).


Will verify the 2 black wires (which was which) and edit post...

[ninety6]

Colors are correct above. Black with white stripe is UNLOCK.
Plain black is indeed ground.

Can't edit the above post....

[kelsfine69]

Did yours come with a LED light?

[ninety6]

Originally Posted by kelsfine69

Did yours come with a LED light?

Nope..... unless you count the LEDs on the fobs...

though, you could easily hook up any 12v LED to the brown output on the unit and make it blink...

If you are meaning an LED to blink when locked, there is no inherent method for that... it doesn't really have an "armed/unarmed" since its basically a pulse sending receiver....

Also, forgot to mention -- it blinks the interior dash lights as well since they are on the same light output as the parking lights...

[Shugalou]

Thanks for the details on this, when I a get to the door section of my list of fix ups I will reference back to this.

Cheers

[Corts60]

Hey! I'm curious about the range for this unit...do you have to get close for it to work or does it work from a good distance?

Thanks!