Hi everyone,
2002 F150 Supercab, 4.6L ...

Both driver and passenger side door lock actuators have to be replaced. I already have new ones. However, when looking at both sides I noticed on both sides the power connectors (two on the assemblies) look to have been duct taped to hold them in. I see frayed tape on both. I think one is for the door lock plug the other is for the actuator.

Can you let me know if my thinking is correct about the plugs and what the exact name or
part they are? And can you tell me where to find them so I can replace all four broken connectors?

Thanks,
Bry

 

I think you best bet is going to a "U-Pull" scrap yard and finding your connectors that are not broken. Be careful that plastic gets brittle as it ages, otherwise just use a tie-wrap to hold the connectors together.

 

Thanks, I found some! Delivering to me Friday!

 

lowvisionbry71,

Thank you for the feedback. Please post your source so that others can benefit.

Jimboy

 

Yu can find the Door Jamb switch at this link on Amazon:

 

Are you sure they didn't just tape the door lock actuators together?

To fix your door lock actuators..... There's little overloads in the little motors. So if somebody holds the switch down after a second it cuts the motor out not to burn it up. Eventually the little overload burns out and then the motor no longer works. If you take it apart you can fix this with tin foil. The overloads are kind of like a semiconductor material and you just wrap them in tin foil and put them back into place and they always conduct. . You kind of have to break the housing apart to do it, and then you kind of have to tape it back together when you put it back together. Yes, it's really and truly more trouble than buying a new $30 actuator, and eventually it ends up failing again after a while but it will get you through for a year or two.

Probably at one time you could only get the door lock actuator from the dealer and it was probably really expensive ... Heck the internet and internet shopping wasn't real big back in 2003....and so the hack fix was worth it to people. I actually did it for one of mine in 2010.... That's how I know. Then I replace next several more with purchased actuators.

Or, somebody could have actually broken your connectors when messing with it before....