Electrical Accessory Panel: Service and Repair

The Power Distribution Center (PDC) is serviced as a unit with the dash wire harness. If any internal circuit of the PDC or if the PDC housing is faulty or damaged, the entire PDC and the dash wire harness unit must be replaced.

REMOVAL
1. Disconnect and isolate the battery negative cable.
2. Disconnect each of the dash wire harness connectors.
3. Remove all of the fasteners that secure each of the dash wire harness ground eyelets to the vehicle body and chassis components.
4. Disengage each of the retainers that secure the dash wire harness to the vehicle body and chassis components.

Power Distribution Center Connections:

5. Unlatch and remove the terminal stud cover from the rearward end of the PDC.
6. Remove the nut that secures the eyelets of the battery positive cable take out and the engine wire harness take out to the stud on the PDC.
7. Remove the battery positive cable take out and the engine wire harness take out eyelets from the PDC stud.

Power Distribution Center Remove/Install:

8. Disengage the latches on the PDC mounting bracket from the tabs on the PDC housing, and pull the PDC housing upward to disengage the mounting slots from the stanchions of the mounting bracket.
9. Remove the PDC and the dash wire harness from the engine compartment as a unit.

PDC Mounting Bracket Remove/Install:

10. Remove the three screws that secure the PDC mounting bracket to the right front inner fender.

11. Remove the PDC mounting bracket from the right front inner fender.

INSTALLATION

NOTE: If the PDC is being replaced with a new unit, be certain to transfer each of the fuses and relays from the old PDC to the proper cavities of the new PDC.

1. Position the PDC mounting bracket onto the right front inner fender.
2. Install and tighten the three screws that secure the PDC mounting bracket to the right front inner fender. Tighten the screws to 3.9 Nm (35 in. lbs.).
3. Position the PDC and the dash wire harness unit in the engine compartment.
4. Engage the mounting slots on the PDC housing with the stanchions of the PDC mounting bracket and push the unit downward until the mounting bracket latches engage the mounting tabs on the PDC housing.
5. Install the eyelets of the battery positive cable take out and the engine wire harness take out onto the PDC stud.
6. Install and tighten the nut that secures the eyelet of the battery positive cable take out and the engine wire harness take out onto the PDC stud. Tighten the nut to 8.4 Nm (75 in. lbs.).
7. Engage the tabs on the lower edge of the terminal stud cover in the slots on the back of the PDC housing, then engage the latch on the top of the cover with the latch tabs on the PDC housing.
8. Engage each of the retainers that secure the dash wire harness to the vehicle body and chassis components.
9. Install all of the fasteners that secure each of the dash wire harness ground eyelets to the vehicle body and chassis components.
10. Reconnect each of the dash wire harness connectors.
11. Reconnect the battery negative cable.