Figure I'd share my adventures with the RKE conversion I want to do to my '81 Monte to show how I'm planning to do it. After seen the MonteCarloSS.com posting several times I decided to do it. I also have been spoiled from the current & last truck having it too so why not make everything RKE. One other thing I'll have to do is convert my doors to power locks also since mine never had them nor the "new" doors. I regret not stripping the junk doors of the '86 parts car that did have the set up along with power windows but that was my days before joining GBF. I do have the cross body harness which I seperated the power window harness out of it, the lock relay, one door lock motor & harness I picked up last month & now the module & harness section. On the need list is the correct pack con terminals for the harness connector, a one cavity, a two cavity & a three cavity m/f conector sets to adapt into the factory harness with out cutting & a four cavity set for adapting the harness section to a harness I'll make to run everything to the front of the car. Can't forget the correct fobs & lock switches.
I tried to draw up a wire diagram then fix it on the computer but it's at least something to work with. This is how I see it being wired up.
This was based of the MonteCarloSS.com info. But I plan to do the tan wire (694/294) direct to the relay instead of cutting the wire going to the driver side switch. As for what is being used, I will change the green wire (275) to orange since (to my understanding) it is ment to be part of the range selector/neutral safety switch as it was posted to to tie into the orange wire (1540) which in turn will be connecting to the hot orange wire (40) under the dash. Another change will be with the white wire (194) to either black like it is in our cars or a white/black stripe wire. With the trunk release I might change the gray wire (382/56) to a black/gray stripe or gray/black stripe wire. The unused black/white stripe wire (56) might be used if I get a better understanding of how it tires in to the trunk release but most likely will be removed as will the dark blue wire (49) unless I understand how it works with the light delay. Last wire that was listed as not used is the pink wire (39) which I'm up in the air if I should tie it in to the dash harness pink wire but I will need to learn it's fuction first.
This would be a faster project if I had the body here at the house but I'll work on a mock up/test harness to make sure everything does work & gets programed. Will be at leat a fall/w*nt*r project.
I tried to draw up a wire diagram then fix it on the computer but it's at least something to work with. This is how I see it being wired up.
This was based of the MonteCarloSS.com info. But I plan to do the tan wire (694/294) direct to the relay instead of cutting the wire going to the driver side switch. As for what is being used, I will change the green wire (275) to orange since (to my understanding) it is ment to be part of the range selector/neutral safety switch as it was posted to to tie into the orange wire (1540) which in turn will be connecting to the hot orange wire (40) under the dash. Another change will be with the white wire (194) to either black like it is in our cars or a white/black stripe wire. With the trunk release I might change the gray wire (382/56) to a black/gray stripe or gray/black stripe wire. The unused black/white stripe wire (56) might be used if I get a better understanding of how it tires in to the trunk release but most likely will be removed as will the dark blue wire (49) unless I understand how it works with the light delay. Last wire that was listed as not used is the pink wire (39) which I'm up in the air if I should tie it in to the dash harness pink wire but I will need to learn it's fuction first.
This would be a faster project if I had the body here at the house but I'll work on a mock up/test harness to make sure everything does work & gets programed. Will be at leat a fall/w*nt*r project.
