The driver's side visor has been busted, longitudinally near the hinge. So it's been flopping down in my field of view for a couple years, and I'm over it. I cleaned up the visors from the parts coach, including the rare passenger side with a vanity light. Of course, they were rusted/seized something awful. I had to cut the bracket to get them out of the parts coach. I had to use a ton of heat, along with wet rags for heat sinking around the vinyl. Days of soaking in PB and reheating finally got them loose. This new one stays up very nicely!
Then I decided to kill several birds with one stone. I needed to finish troubleshooting the cruise, which started with the light, which started with taking the back shell off the instrument cluster. That's been bugging me for a long time. There was only one screw holding it in place (the easy one to get to) but the PO decided to paint it in place! The results speak for themselves. I'll be glad to have that mess off of the windshield--I can just manage to scrape everything off with the back shell removed.
Looking into the annunciator bulbs, the first three were burnt so I quit and just ordered a 10-pack of Sylvania bulbs off Amazon. I got them the next day, and proceeded to replace every single bulb and clean up the contacts on every socket and every contact in the connector. I was tired of flaky annunciators. The old flex had been oxidizing and making some serious heat in the past! We've got clean copper with a dash of dielectric grease now.
I also solved the HDMI mysteries while I had the dash apart. The PO had the nice Kenwood DVD deck. I found a HDMI splitter in the galley cabinet, the TV across from the dinette, a TV mounting spot in the rear bedroom, and nothing worked. I looked up the specs on the Kenwood, and it doesn't even have an HDMI output. Huh.
Turns out, there was a RCA to HDMI converter hidden in the dash behind the stereo, and it required a micro-USB power input that wasn't plugged in to anything! So now we can have synchronized screens in three spots. We'll likely hardly ever use it, but having all that stuff in there that didn't do anything was bugging me.
I still haven't diagnose the Onan or the exhaust leak, and our annual camping/boating week is coming up soon. No hookups there, and we just hit mid-90s for temps this week, so I'd better get on it. I did manage to pick up an unwanted Onan from another GMCer this week. He's going with more modern stuff, so I was happy to give it a new home. My Sonic was a little less happy!
