After getting done everything I needed to Saturday and Sunday, I decided to start on some prep work for the B14 ECU conversion.
If you remember, a month or two back, I purchased a complete harness from a 1996 200SX SE-R. After cutting off the B14 ECU connector and extending the wires that need extending, the harness sat in my closet.
Today, I set out to make an Excel sheet with all of the information that is needed. In the document (a link to a PDF version is below), I included the following information:
- B14 terminal number
- B15 terminal Number
- General purpose
After doing this, I labeled all of the leads from the B14 harness. After I get the Sentra inspected, I will do the same on the B15 harness before making any cuts and splices. My hope is that this will help me out in two ways:
- It will simplify the splicing process, since most of the reference work is done.
- It will allow me to find any mistakes I made quickly. Since both ends will be labeled, this should help me if I think a mistake was made.
B15 to B14 ECU Conversion Document
Chris' 2000 Sentra SE, Turbo Project
Yesterday the weather people were calling for nice weather, so I decided to tackle installing the new wheel bearings and tie rod ends. The day before was a wash out (literally), so I got up early on Saturday to attempt to finish at a reasonable time.
I started around 8:00 AM, and was done cleaning up by 1:00 PM. It wasn’t bad considering two of those hours were spent waiting for the machine shop to press the old bearings out and the new ones in. The only thing that went wrong is that one of the tie rod end nuts will not thread back on. Somehow the nut was damaged, so I’ll order one (along with a few other parts) from Nissan on Monday.
As I expected, the Harbor Freight tie rod separator did more harm then good. Luckily I only had to use it on the old tie rod ends, which I was replacing anyway. If you are considering using one of these, make sure you prepare for the worst, or look for an alternative.
I also discovered a few things during the instllation that I want to address:
- Ball Joints are torn. I am going to look into Moog ones, instead of buying new control arms.
- I want to clean up and paint the knuckles. They have some surface rust and generally look like crap.
Chris' 2000 Sentra SE, Restoration Project