1) Desoldering is actually easier than soldering! Stop by RadioShack, pick up a $2.99 roll of "Copper Desoldering Braid". It's along peice of thin braided copper. When you lay the end of the braid on the soldered connection, then put the tip of your soldering iron on the braid, it'll heat the copper, then heat the solder and literally suck the solder up into the braid, removing it from the board! Leaves a nice connection, ready to be soldered again.

2) To solder back in, once you remove all the soldered connections with the braid, just drop the 28 pin socket back to the board, and drip a tiny bit of solder on each of the connections. (This will make more sense once you get right in and do it)

3) The ROM (EEPROM, Eletronic Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory) is the black chip with the little "legs" coming off of it. It's sitting on top of the blue cradle in my picture.

4) To load them into the ECU, I bought a ZIF (Zero insertion force) socket (the blue cradle in the pictures). This makes it easy to swap out EEPROMs without bending the legs. There is alittle lever on the side, you lift it up, and you can just pull the EEPROM out, installation is reverse of that.

Hope that helps you out! Good luck!

 

HA! You can use whatever you like. I'm TOTALLY anticipating your release. If you need anything else from me, just ask. I'll snap pictures, write up a complete install, anything you need. I've had a great time researching all of this. I'm learning a lot, and hopefully everyone else will.