Install It baby (The Kit, The Car The First Date!)

First lets look at the HOD kit.

The kit includes:

The Canister or as I like to call it the "Electrolyzer."




























The Vacuum Hose



















The Wiring Harness

















The Control Box

















Those are the major components of the kit we will go into more detail on each of them in later post.

Next lets consider the car.

You need to have a little understanding of the engine before you can make intelligent decisions as to how to install the HOD system. A simple understanding of the electrical system, and the engine sensors and the vacuum lines as they relate to the flow of air through the engine would help you tremendously during the first few steps of the installation. A major goal is finding a vacuum line behind all the sensors. You really don't want our wonderful Brown's gas flowing past the sensors. If it does the computer might screw everything up. That is the first thing I start looking for when I'm "dating" the car.

As soon as I locate the sweet spot on the vacuum lines I grab the wiring harness and and start hunting for a place to send the wires for the control box through the firewall. On more than one occasion this has proven to be very difficult. If you search and search until you determine that the only way to get the wires into interior is to drill a hole, take my advise. Make sure you have a buddy to help, you need to be sure where the drill is coming and going, an extra set of eyes can help you avoid some very costly mistakes. Take it slow and easy.

Next I begin searching for a place to secure the canister. About now you are going to start to understand why the HOD kit does not include a universal mounting bracket of some type. It can really be a challenge finding a spot to stick the canister. It needs to be relatively cool, easy for the driver to reach and remove for service and close to the vacuum. It also needs to be secure. Don't forget about the wiring harness, gotta reach that too. on many cars you are going to need to be creative when mounting the canister. Don't forget it needs to be pretty strait up and down too.

After that I ask the customer where they would like the control box. Where they want it and where you can put it are often two different things so be prepared to compromise. Just remember they have to live with it. I try hard not to drill any holes to install the box unless of course I am doing a custom install in the dash. I'll try to get some picts of a few of those up here soon. Normally this is the easy part but once in a while you are going to need to take it nice and slow.

Last of all I locate the fuse box so I know where I need to go for power.

Let's take a look at the placement of the different parts on a Honda Mini Van I recently did some work on.

Vacuum First!














I came off the Valve cover here, the vacuum was nice and strong and it goes into the intake manifold way past any sensors.

The wiring harness.














Here is where we sent the wiring harness through the firewall. A little hard to see but it's going through the black circle in the center of the pict. Rubber boots in the fire wall make this step easy.

The ground














This is where we installed the ground. Pretty simple.

The Amazing Wonder Thermos!














You can see the ground in the upper right of this pict. The card board serves as a nice buffer between the positive post on the battery an the negative outside of the canister. They don't actually touch but we wanted to be sure.

The Black Box!














Tucked nicely next to the steering column. Nice and tight won't bump the knee.

Hope this helps.

These post are not intended to substitute for using a certified HOD installer, nor am I acting on behalf of the company in any official capacity. Use this information at your own risk. I'm trying hard to provide you a valuable resource whether you are a installer wanting a reminder of the procedure, or if you live in an area where you do not have access to an installer. However, I make no guarantee that this information is accurate. If you live somewhere you are not able to hire a certified installer then I hope this guide helps you install your HOD system in your own car. But you are not authorized to install the HOD system in any other car for profit or otherwise. And the manufacture will consider all warranties real or implied of any kind fraudulent, null and void. Being an IBO is not the same as being a certified installer. Certified installers go through a rigorous training procedure and must pass both classroom and hands on testing.

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