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Installing a center ceiling console
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 2:15 pm
by pengyou
My van does not have a roof mounted console like this:
viewtopic.php?f=39&t=3549 (see the second post for the picture).
Is it easy to install one of these?
Re: Installing a center ceiling console
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 2:18 pm
by CaptSquid
Man, you were talking earlier about cheap. Now, you can't seem to spend the money fast enough.
Unless you have the brackets in the overhead, it ain't gonna happen.
Re: Installing a center ceiling console
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 2:41 pm
by LiftedAWDAstro
What Mike is saying, when you grab one at a scrap yard, grab the ceiling mount brackets and you would be set to go.
Re: Installing a center ceiling console
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:24 pm
by CaptSquid
I said that???
Re: Installing a center ceiling console
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:03 pm
by LiftedAWDAstro
Yeah...that's what I heard.
Re: Installing a center ceiling console
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:11 pm
by dean89
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/474499/2
I have a few pictures on my car domain page from when I put in my overhead console. It wasn't too hard, just time consuming because the headliner needs to come down to mount the bracket.
Re: Installing a center ceiling console
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 9:05 pm
by pengyou
Thanks! Yeah, that's what I heard too
Have no fear...i am still into cheap. Parts at the local U-pull it are really cheap. I think the console is about $5.
Were there different kinds of consoles available or are they all about the same? Does it matter if the van is the shorter version of the earlier years or the longer version of the later years? If I were handy with wood (which I am am) and had tools (which I don't) is there any reason why I couldn't make my own? OK, it will probably cost more than the $5 the wrecking yard is going to charge me...but I could design all kinds of spaces and holes for things that I dream of putting into the van (when I get some $$).
Could someone please tell me more about how to fasten it to the roof. Is there a beam of some kind that I could screw something into? I guess if worse came to worse I could buy one of those illuminated termites that are often on top of the trucks of the businesses that kill pests around home...and screw the light onto Jane by screwing it into the wood of the console...but something tells me that there is a more graceful way. (Note: sorry I just looked the pics closer in the link you sent me and saw the beams. Maybe I still will do the termite light.)
Re: Installing a center ceiling console
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2008 5:44 pm
by sfeaver
If your is the new style (I think 96 is the changeover for the interior), I think the bracket is already in the ceiling. As far as I know, the additional bracket was needed on the 95 and lower models. Consoles from 99-05 have a trip computer as well. Make sure you grab the entire harness.
Scott