I finally got the dash put back in today. To my surprise, the turn signals and the hvac controls now work. I don't know what I did to make them work, but I'm not complaining. I also put the exhaust back together. The guy that had it before me torched of the exhaust before the CAT thinking it was clogged. Whats funny is that he didn't realize there was another CAT in front of the one he cut off. Even so, they weren't clogged so I welded it back up. I'm tempted to replace the regular muffler with a glass pack muffler, but I'll save that for when i have nothing better to do. Once I got it quiet, I realized there is an exhaust leak on the driver's side. I haven't looked into it much yet.

I also bought a laptop based code reader from amazon for 50 dollars. Its good for almost anything 1996 and newer. It reads codes and clears them and shows live data from all the sensors. I was surprised to find that the only code I had was for the heater circuit on one of the O2 sensors. It also shows mode 6 data and emissions readiness and snapshot data.

here is the link to the code reader I bought.
http://www.amazon.com/OBDLink-SX-OBD...9970230&sr=8-1