hi there welcome to the beaten trail and in this episode
we are going to show you how to install the tusk brand of heated seats now these package
is for one seat so if you have two seats obviously you got to buy two of these
and it's not that difficult basic tools that you'll need is a flat head screwdriver for
pulling out staples needle nose torx for your seat removal stapler they do say that you should have a
pneumatic and a hammer just in case and that's for stubborn staples so first what you want
to do is remove the cushion from the frame the driver side the passenger side may be different
one has an adjustable distance and the other one does not but either way once you get them
apart you're going to try to carefully remove the staples there are a lot of them so just be patient
once you peel back you're going to do this to the back of the seats
you're going to try to make sure that velcro doesn't pull up too much of the fasteners but
you can always use a little glue to attach those you want to make sure your seats are dry and clean
if they are dry you can do this ahead of time and let them you know just dry out a little bit
so once you get the whole wiring harness apart you're just going to use one little
piece and these quick connects are exactly what you're going to disconnect under the seats
so some installers may have you cut the pads just make them fit you shouldn't have to fold or kink
them they should fit okay at least in our razor trail they did and you want to tuck that up in
front so you get a little bit of heating action up on the front of the seats underneath your legs
and you don't want to have the big bulky wiring in the back too close to your bottom but go ahead and
make it fit properly where you would sit and then you're going to use this metallic reflective tape
to hold them in there now you may have to just move them around a little bit
and then you can get that velcro tag that's going to hold the cover on
and don't worry you can always use a little heat glue or adhesive to keep those back down in there
so you're going to carefully pull the cover back on and make sure everything is nice and
nice and snug you don't want it sliding around and you want it to pretty much look nice and neat you
can tape the cable out of the way just make sure you don't staple it and again a pneumatic stapler
is definitely a lot easier to use we didn't have one handy so we're using a regular staple
and we're just tapping in the stubborn staples that don't go in all the way
you may have the top of your seat may have some trim
and you may have to just use your finger to open that up to get those staples out and
then there's more staples underneath that so just continue the process
and repeat for the top piece and the back of the seat and you'll notice that as long as you tuck it
in there well you can have it looking uh exactly at when you pulled it apart and again you can
use some glue if you have to once you go ahead and put everything back to the frame just make
sure that you have the wires snug somewhere and tucked out of the way so you're not going to poke
them when you go ahead and reattach your seat we bought a separate switch panel to mount we
didn't want to drill into our console but you will have to route those wires up through the firewall
and once you do it's easier to pull the fuse out and reattach that later to make it a little less
wide we opted not to cut into our console but you will have to route the wires and once you do you
get it up to accessory ground and you're positive once you get it all hooked up you can go ahead
just make sure you don't attach anything through linkage or attach to a coolant line and then once
you've attached everything make sure you're running the vehicle because each of these
seats will take a good amount of current let us know how you did with it and how do you like your
heated seats and please join us again for another episode and we'll see you out there on the trail
thanks