Jamaroon's ZR2
Had to swap out the blower motor/fan, what a royal pain that was..... I got most of it done last night, Paul came over today and helped me finish it up. While we were putting it back together we made a new mount for the license plate so it's no longer hanging from the grill.
I don't know what GM was thinking when they put the blower there... it's nearly impossible to get everything in and all of those bolts tight without breaking something. I always ended up missing at least one screw whenever I had to do them on my old Blazers, lol
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Joined: Jul 2013
Posts: 32
From: Kansas City, Mo.
Blaz came over Saturday and Monday evening and I worked on it last night and tonight on my own to finish up installing the inverter.
[FONT=Calibri]Started by finding a place to mount the fuse. Decided to mount it to the bottom of the battery tray. Tried mounting it at a bit of an angle first, but it hit the inner fender so we had to change it.
Attached the 1/0 wire to the fuse.
Re-installed the battery tray
Ran the wire along the frame
Drilled holes for the wire to go through and installed the rubber grommet
Installed the relay under the floor, I wanted to install it inside but there was no room to put it anywhere that was easy to get too without completely disassembling the interior panels.
Crimped and shrink wrapped the wire
This shows the power and ground 1/0 cables coming through the floor and the small white wire is the relay power wire. It runs to the dash fuse block and is only powered when the ignition is in the run position.
Ran the ground to the frame and attached it using the exhaust hanger bolt. Also put the relay ground into the same terminal, that’s what the smaller black wire is for.
Then we tested to make sure everything was working with the inverter, powered the drill just fine. Went to try the little air compressor that was the whole reason for the inverter install and the damn thing won’t turn on anymore.
Then I installed some mounting bolts using some threaded inserts
Cut some holes in the carpet for the bolts and wires, connected everything and re-installed all the interior panels. Also vacuumed the carpet and wiped down the panels. This is the cleanest it’s been in a long time lol.
I figured out why the compressor wasn’t working.
I had enough wire left over to do the Big 3 upgrade, so I did that and hooked up the inverter power wire onto a brand new battery.
Grounds running to the frame:
All hooked up:
Compressor running off of inverter
And this is all that is left over from a 25’ Roll of wire
[FONT=Calibri]Started by finding a place to mount the fuse. Decided to mount it to the bottom of the battery tray. Tried mounting it at a bit of an angle first, but it hit the inner fender so we had to change it.
Attached the 1/0 wire to the fuse.
Re-installed the battery tray
Ran the wire along the frame
Drilled holes for the wire to go through and installed the rubber grommet
Installed the relay under the floor, I wanted to install it inside but there was no room to put it anywhere that was easy to get too without completely disassembling the interior panels.
Crimped and shrink wrapped the wire
This shows the power and ground 1/0 cables coming through the floor and the small white wire is the relay power wire. It runs to the dash fuse block and is only powered when the ignition is in the run position.
Ran the ground to the frame and attached it using the exhaust hanger bolt. Also put the relay ground into the same terminal, that’s what the smaller black wire is for.
Then we tested to make sure everything was working with the inverter, powered the drill just fine. Went to try the little air compressor that was the whole reason for the inverter install and the damn thing won’t turn on anymore.
Then I installed some mounting bolts using some threaded inserts
Cut some holes in the carpet for the bolts and wires, connected everything and re-installed all the interior panels. Also vacuumed the carpet and wiped down the panels. This is the cleanest it’s been in a long time lol.
I figured out why the compressor wasn’t working.
I had enough wire left over to do the Big 3 upgrade, so I did that and hooked up the inverter power wire onto a brand new battery.
Grounds running to the frame:
All hooked up:
Compressor running off of inverter
And this is all that is left over from a 25’ Roll of wire
