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I'm in the process of putting in an overhead console in my 2002 f350 single cab cab and chassis truck, I've got it mounted, new harness ran, 5 of the 8 wires run. What I'm having an issue with is the fuel sender wire which is a yellow with white stripe I'm not able to find and pin # 4 on the console is supposed to be hooked to the "computer data line"
I have the speed sensor wired up, the ambient temp sensor wired up, the ground, the ECM wire hooked up and the keyed power wired up. the display works but only shows temp right now, compass says "cal" which I'm sure is probably just a calibration thing, I want to wirre in the fuel gauge so maybe the distance to empty works even if its not accurate as well as my fuel economy.
Also, I have read in the past somewhere that when doing this "mod" if you will, you have to go in and change some setting in the system for fuel tank size, can anyone confirm this?
Got it figured out, fuel sender wire runs right in the area, just tapped into it, the only wire i didn't hook up was for the dimming feature. I'm sending out a spare overhead console module to circuit board medics today to get rebuilt so itll be like new, the one I have installed now the DTE reads zero, If i swap in the other one the DTE says 106 miles which sounds about right being just below a 1/4 tank with a 40 gallon fuel tank which equates to roughly 10 MPG which is close to what i average around town.
So far so good.
Also had the headliner redone and wired and installed vanity mirrors, need to get them recovered but ive spent enough on this project already. I had another display for the overhead console i sent out yesterday to circuit board medics that ill install when it gets here as well as ordered a new surround for the overhead console from my local ford dealer, surprisingly it was only $56 for a new one from ford, i have a tan one but wanted gray.
Cutting the headliner was the easy part. Tapping into the wiring was easy also, the only "hard" part was getting access to pin 43 in the ecm. I actually cut the wire and soldered in an extention and soldered a wire onto that to my overhead console plug.
To some its kind of worthless even though I do like the temp display. But it also makes the truck feel a bit more modern and the $300 I spent doing this was way cheaper than buying a new truck.
Here's a different "twist" on what you did. My truck 2003 F350 diesel originally came from the factory with overhead console. Major electrical fire destroyed all of the underhood wiring. I bought a very similar parts truck with intact wiring and swapped everything including the dash from the parts truck. Unfortunately the parts truck did not have an overhead console, and since the console was still in my truck, I just left it there thinking maybe someday I could buy a wiring harness allowing it to work again. In fact, if only the exterior temp feature worked, I'd be happy with that. Any ideas on what would be required to make the overhead console functional again?
It's only probably a couple of wires to make that work, 4 if I'm not mistaken, power and ground and the 2 temperature wires. Actually just one of the temp wires, as one is a ground.
I'm certain that I at least need a new temp sensor, This fire burned the entire frontend off the truck. Not certain where the sensor was located but positive it's gone + the wiring harness that goes to it. Unless of course a standard wiring harness includes this wire and only requires adding the sensor.
I'm certain that I at least need a new temp sensor, This fire burned the entire frontend off the truck. Not certain where the sensor was located but positive it's gone + the wiring harness that goes to it. Unless of course a standard wiring harness includes this wire and only requires adding the sensor.
The sensor is located in the front grill area on the drivers side.
I snagged one from a pic and pull yard recently only to find out it's not just going to be plug and play to get it going.
