02koolC5

After a lot of procrastinating, I ordered the relays and decided to give it a try.
Went and bought a desoldering gun at radio shack, took the door apart, with the help of vette essentials instructions.
Took module out and removed the circuit board that holds the relays.
My door would not lock or unlock w/ fob or on my drivers side switch.
Cleaned off the silicone around the pins to be de-soldered and then used the desoldering gun to remove the solder, placed new relays in position and soldered those in.
Applied some clear silicone on the ares that I had removed it, plugged it in door harness and it is working!......I just gotta say this wasn't as hard, as I thought it was.

I've never soldered any thing in my life, so thanks to all forum members for keeping this info fresh I was able to tackle this project, here are some links that helped me and some pictures of the project....Now to fix ECBM next!

http://www.vetteessentials.com/instr...or_handle.html
http://www.ronjpics.com/Corvettestuff.htm#DCM

JerzeyJoe

Congrats. That's something I would never try.

sesand

Strong work. I wasn't bold enough to fix mine, myself, but sent the passenger module off to Dave Ruberg in Minnesota to be fixed. Cost about $80 after shipping. He fixed my dim climate control display, too, for about $60. Heck of a lot better than new parts and paying the dealer to replace them. I may be sending the driver module in soon since the lock button on that side doesn't work all the time....

76 VETTE

Nice job and great pics! I need to do that to my pass. door.

LISTIN

how do you get to vetteessentials to obtain a password? I've tried different ways and just can't seem to get to a registration

Vetteman Jack

Nice job - saved a bunch of money with the DIY.

Black04Z06

I think something is wrong with their site. It shouldn't require a password.


Also book marking this one for future use. Thanks!

LISTIN

To Sesand - do you have Dave Ruberg's information on where we can contact him?

sesand

digitalguy_1@charter.net

LISTIN

Thanks, email is on the way.

Funnone

I also did mine 2 weeks ago
Peace of Cake....

C5FORFUN2

After a lot of procrastinating, I ordered the relays and decided to give it a try.
Went and bought a desoldering gun at radio shack, took the door apart, with the help of vette essentials instructions.
Took module out and removed the circuit board that holds the relays.
My door would not lock or unlock w/ fob or on my drivers side switch.
Cleaned off the silicone around the pins to be de-soldered and then used the desoldering gun to remove the solder, placed new relays in position and soldered those in.
Applied some clear silicone on the ares that I had removed it, plugged it in door harness and it is working!......I just gotta say this wasn't as hard, as I thought it was.

I've never soldered any thing in my life, so thanks to all forum members for keeping this info fresh I was able to tackle this project, here are some links that helped me and some pictures of the project....Now to fix ECBM next!

Nice job, but I thought silcone was bad for electrical connections??

sliderhd

Good Job! Curious about the silicone but should work fine for a conformal coating.

Black04Z06

I think it's epoxy and not silicone. We use to epoxy all of our boards, it seals them up from any moisture. Besides, it's being applied after all of the solder joints have been made.

kennya35

I need to do this for my passenger window, gets stuck all the time until i give the door a good smack right where the module is...

02koolC5

I hope that the silicone will be ok, the thread I read...metioned removeing the silcone and de-solder the relay so I put a coating back on it when I finished my soldering...Also used silcone (after soldering) for my EBCM relay fix and so so good