This is the device to control the heater and fan. There are many more components that were replaced, essentially everything under the black cover. I just didn’t take pictures. What you see here is the before and after.

I took out the dash. That was six individual components. The first piece I looked at was broken bad. The decision was $500 or try to fix it. Inspection of the others showed they all needed extensive work. That $500 estimate turned into $3000 immediately. I couldn’t stomach that so I bought some epoxy weld,…

Here we go. No going back now. It starts right away. The black thing on its side is the center gauge cluster housing. This has been suspect for some time but when I took it out it cracked in half. The housing was an unexpected $450. More on that later dammit. Spaghetti This was another…

Yet another unexpected issue. The GM engineers needed a way to open the metal grate guarding the hidden windshield wipers. There’s a lever that moves some linkages to open the grate, called the wiper door. On the right is the GM solution. It consists of eleven parts and cost me $87. On the left is…

This pic shows the removal of the old engine wiring harness. The engine wiring harness feeds components in the engine bay. But not all the components, that would be too easy. This one has the wiper motor, wiper washer motor, starter, and blower motor.