Power Distribution Center: Removal

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

1. Disconnect and isolate the battery negative cable.
2. Disconnect each of the headlamp and dash wire harness connectors. Refer to ELECTRICAL COMPONENT LOCATOR for more information on the headlamp and dash wire harness connector locations.
3. Remove all of the fasteners that secure each of the headlamp and dash wire harness ground eyelets to the vehicle body and chassis components. Refer to GROUND DISTRIBUTION for information on the ground eyelet locations.
4. Disengage each of the retainers that secure the headlamp and dash wire harness to the vehicle body and chassis components. Refer to ELECTRICAL COMPONENT LOCATOR for more information on the headlamp and dash wire harness retainer locations.
5. Unlatch and remove the cover from the PDC.
6. Disconnect the engine wire harness in-line connector from the PDC connector receptacle.
7. Slide the engine wire harness retainer clip upward and disengage the harness from the trough on the rear of the PDC housing.
8. Remove the nut that secures the eyelet of the battery negative cable generator output take out to the rearward B(+) terminal stud in the PDC and remove the eyelet from the stud.
9. Remove the nut that secures the eyelet of the battery positive cable PDC take out to the B(+) terminal stud in the PDC and remove the eyelet from the stud.
10. Remove the screw that secures the PDC housing to the left front fender wheel housing.
11. Disengage the latches for the two PDC mounts and lift the unit off of the battery tray stanchions.
12. Remove the PDC and the headlamp and dash wire harness from the engine compartment as a unit.