HELP!! Installing Coastal EV Mod!

Ya know, Kev, I was thinking about that when I was installing mine.

The HV ECU is way too difficult to get at to be too creative. And it's way too complicated to even consider taking it apart to fish out the part.

I'm sorry man. My experience was just to shove mine in and be done with it. I have no usable input.

 

No. Mine did not break.

I would suggest that you carefully pull out the pin since some of it's exposed. From there you can simply start the process over.

 

In my experience, the pin I was supplied by the manufacturer was the wrong size for the application. The real pins are located in the area under the steering wheel and described in HTMLSpinner's document. After we pretty much hacked up the over-sized pin, we used one that's the correct size and everything worked perfectly. Of course, several hours and much mental anguish went into the whole process.

When trying to remove the pin, is the ECU "lock" popped up ensuring that it's not holding it in?

 

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I'm not even going there. STAY FOCUSSED!!

It only stands up about a milimeter or two. Barely enough to notice that it's up.

 

That might work, Kev. Since it's not my car, I won't try to talk you out of it. It'll be a tight operation given the limited space of that juunction. It won't be pretty. When you're done, be sure to tape it well to protect the union from shorting out against something else.

 

is the pin in the EV ECU or in the button?
Now I'm confused.

 

Can you take/post pictures? Do you have the time?

http://www.priuschat.com/forums/album_pic.php?pic_id=222

This is a picture of the ECU plug. Is this where it's sticking out of?

just occured to me: Is there anything thin enough that you can shove up through the bottom and push it out? I'm concerned that anything that thin might not be sturdy enough.

 

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"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that."

Wait a minute: Are you saying leaving the pin in place and shoving the ECU back into the housing? Or are you saying drive the car without the ECU seated into the housing? You can have a non-functioning pin in slot 27 - which is pretty much where you stand right now.

 

Oh well that shouldn't cause a huge problem.
But understand, my good man, that I am not an electrician nor am I a car tech nor am I in any way considered an expert. I just remember doing my own mod.

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