Installing an auto start / stop eliminator on a 2024 ranger (6th gen)

[superj]

Ebay version, and it works. 18 bucks and 20 minutes to install and saved 70 bucks over the nicer looking australian start/stop eliminator.

This plugs in under the center console button assembly that has the auto start/stop button on it. It actually plugs into that button assembly.

So, lets begin...

Start by pulling on the shift console right here with your fingers. Pull up and it will pop up. Vehicles are made with push clips now so its very easy to remove and reinstall stuff.

Next open the center console lid and pull up the back of the shift console, just like you did the front.

Reach under your button assembly, between the e brake and the center console, and unplug the grey plug. Its an old school plug where you apply finger tip pressure to the center clip and pull the body apart from the female side of the plug.

this picture is where you plug the eliminator into the button assembly that you just removed the grey plug from and you is also where you plug the plug from the truck wiring harness into the eliminator. They are both grey and can only go together one way so if you have it together, you are half way done and doing well.

Push the red wire from the eliminator that has the fuse on it down under the shift console and out the plastic skirt so its down by your seats track. Right down inside where the button assembly sits.

Look under your seat down where your atm card falls and you can't easily get and you will see your plug with the fuse. Squeeze your wide hands down there and pull that sucker towards the pedal assembly and get most of the excess wire pulled out to the floor by where your feet are when driving.

see the wire that is in a bundle, you should be to this point in your install. In the same area, put your fingers where mine is and pull towards the seat.... All the way around that trim piece.

When done, you will be here and you are so close to being done, you can drink something to make yourself feel better as its probably hot where you live, like ituis here. 97 degrees and something crazy like 80% humidity.... And dang mosquitos everywhere, can't forget that fun too. Anyways, you are almost ready to test.

Now back to your wire bundle mess on the floor. Pick it up and pull it so you can push the length of wire up behind the skirt of the center console body and around this corner, by the gas pedal.

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[superj]

Here is a part you dont have to do if you don't want to. I am not a fan of random wires hanging down or sitting low where they can catch on your shoe or get yanked out so i reached as high up as i could above the corner we spoke about in the previous picture and wrapped the plug around a wire bundle and pulled some of the slack upwards. Don't pull it tight like your dog does to the leash when a cat comes out, leave a little slack for possible expansion or retraction, movement, etc.

From where you looped that wire bundle up for safety, pull the rest of the wire and plug over to the fuse box above your left foot area and wrap a bunch of the mess around this wire bundle (or be professional and zip tie into a nice bow, your choice).

This is the fuse box you need and the code people talk about in those threads when they add the button pad for keyless entry. My truck didnt have the button pad and i am not adding it so you guys can look at my code, i am not worried anyone is going to come and hack my truck for running drugs to mexico or anything like that. Those guys dont steal midsize trucks for that, its half tons or larger with 4x4 they like to steal.

Anyways, pull out the blue 15 amp fuse and put it into your eliminator plug

After you put the fuse in, plug your eliminator plug into the blue fuse's old spot.

Woohooo! Start your truck and your auto stop/start is no longer on! You are good to go.

So now you need to go back and align those push pin clips for the shift console and trim above your knees, and push them back into place so your truck looks like you never took it apart. You will see where they go, the little slots that line up with the clips when you hold the plastic trim pieces back near where they went.

You have completed your first interior mod and are good to go. Take a drive and enjoy that little "A" being lined out.

If you are super bored and have your forscan set up, you can now plug in and turn off that "A" off and forget that crap was ever on your truck.

Have a great day and i hope you enjoyed my rambling story instructions.

 

[superj]

Works great. Every time i have started the truck, the auto stop is off and the truck stays running at lights, like a regular old truck from back in the day