What needs to be done to install a 4th gen power driver seat? Is it just a matter of running a power and ground to the seat motor with an inline fuse?

 

Basically, yes.

 

So its just 2 wires? Simple enough. What have you guys tapped into?

 

Yep.Mine is factory, but power goes to a junction block behind the dr. kick panel.Wired thru a circuit breaker.I dont remember there being a fuse, but it wouldnt hurt to have one.

 

Late thirdgens have the seat harness plug in between the two halves of the power lock/window harness. It's the three wire plug under the drivers kick panel, C238/C239. That way the seat(s) run off the PWR ACC breaker.




Earlier cars have a distribution block under the dash higher up on the kick panel.

 

So pull the power wire off of there and then just make a ground somewhere else? Whats going to be at the end of that now just an empty pin in connector 238?

 

You could Scotch lock, or use another splice to tap in, or look what is already there and figure out a good way to tap in. Depending on how the car is equipped now, you may have the C238 connector just hanging. or you might have the power lock/window harness plugged in. GM's answer was to grab another c239 style connector, and another C238 style connector, and build the seat harness to plug in between the other harnesses.