Dreaded steering wheel locking
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Heel & Toe
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Dreaded steering wheel locking
My 2000 C5 has started to have frequent steering lock problems. I decided after reading so many recommendations by forum members, to get an LMC5 Module. The video looked easy!
I had no trouble with orange and purple wires, but the green one in the big pink block would not come out. I fiddled around until I messed up the block. My Vette is sitting out in my driveway of a three home cul-de-sac, but not blocking other cars. The wheel is locked. I have ordered the Unlocker. My question: is the unlocker easy to hook up? I don't want to screw anything else up. As it is I need a new pink block, terminals and connectors which I will have professionally installed by a Corvette expert. Help!
Covet My Vette
I had no trouble with orange and purple wires, but the green one in the big pink block would not come out. I fiddled around until I messed up the block. My Vette is sitting out in my driveway of a three home cul-de-sac, but not blocking other cars. The wheel is locked. I have ordered the Unlocker. My question: is the unlocker easy to hook up? I don't want to screw anything else up. As it is I need a new pink block, terminals and connectors which I will have professionally installed by a Corvette expert. Help!
Covet My Vette
Racer
Joined: Jan 2013
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I just installed the LMC% module and in all honesty didn't bother to read the paper instructions after watching the video. My steering was locked. I called Richard at the company and he instructed me how to unlock it in 5 minutes. There is a spare harness tucked up in above the ECM and you just touch two wires together and you can hear it unlock. No way I would replace the whole block. I'd run a wire through it and connecters at both ends. Suggest you call and get coached through it and jump the buggered wire, cover it with tape or shrinkwrap, and you can be driving in less than an hour for free.
Racer
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Found my notes for you on the LMC5. There is a supplemental power wire tucked under the same area, a little off towards the center of the car, above the box. It has black tape on the ends, it's just 3 wires that are cut off--orange, yellow and black. Orange is power, black is ground, ignore the yellow. With your battery connected, strip just a little off the ends of the orange, and black wires--DON'T touch anything with the ends. Stick the black wire in the block so it touches the white in the block. Touch the orange to the purple in the block for a few seconds. You may see a small spark, and you will hear the steering unlock. The steering is now unlocked and has been bypassed so it can never lock again. Perfectly safe if you take your time. Carefully tape the wires so they cannot touch, and tuck them back in place. Richard answered the phone directly, and was very friendly and helpful.
Le Mans Master
Joined: Mar 2011
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From: Columbia SC
If you just damaged the one terminal you were trying to remove you can get a replacement and I am sure Richard could provide one or I can tell you where to get them. If you did more damage than that you are way in over your head.
Did you read the instructions or just look at the video? The video is not the complete install.
OK, with that said, if you need me to help you then you can PM me with your phone number and I will be glad to help.
I don't know where you live. If you are close to me I could maybe come over and help.
Mr. Sam
Did you read the instructions or just look at the video? The video is not the complete install.
OK, with that said, if you need me to help you then you can PM me with your phone number and I will be glad to help.
I don't know where you live. If you are close to me I could maybe come over and help.
Mr. Sam
Le Mans Master
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From: OK
When those stinky little pins won't release like they're supposed to... you can take a pair of needle nose pliers and just pull it out... it folds the little tab back that supposed to hold and release it but it doesn't tear anything up, to just pull it out... I had to do that with one of the pins that WOULD NOT release I tried for 30 minutes on one stupid pin...the other two nearly fell out like they should...
Safety Car
Joined: Jan 2014
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From: Walhalla South Carolina
I had trouble with the brown wire mod end as well. Finally pulled it out with needle nose pliars and I couldn't get the brown wire into the big pink block and ended up messing up the brown wire end beyound repair. Richard sent me another brown wire end and I cut the bad one off and spliced in the new one Richard sent and I figured out why I couldn't get it to go the first time and all is well. I can't imagine how U could have messed the big pink block up so it can't be used. Call Richard before U do anything else.
Instructor
Joined: Dec 2011
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From: Carmel NY
St. Jude Donor '12, '14, '17
I had the same problem with two pins. They wouldn't release with the supplied allen wrench. I eventually used a one from my tool box. It looked slightly larger. Bingo. It worked
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