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Old 01-03-2015, 07:47 PM
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I'm in the middle of a rebuild project and hoping I could find some help here. Both doors on my 88 F-150 Custom had to be replaced. I used donor doors from a 89 Lariat that had power windows. All the door wiring is intact to where it is supposed to plug into the wiring harness under the dash. However, since the original truck didn't have power windows, I don't have the harness to plug into.

So would it be easy to pull this harness from another truck or simple enough to wire up using just the wiring diagram?

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This is what the original harness from an 88 looks like if that's any help (it's reversed in the pic).
That small plug is where the power feed came from. It plugged in to the main dash harness somewhere near the steering column. You can check if you have a plug for it on your dash harness.
The whole door harness was attached to the firewall just below the windshield. Couldn't get at it till I took the dash off.
That harness is hanging in my garage, if you need a better pic let me know.
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Thanks Chris! Any chance it's for sale if I need it?
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Not really, but then I don't really need it. I just hung on to it because it seemed like a good idea at the time. Let me know if you get stuck for finding one, we'll figure out a way to get it down to you.
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Check out the junkyards, or car-parts.com, you shouldn't have any trouble finding F150s here in the midwest.
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So does anyone happen to have an idea what years those harnesses happened to be the same? The doors were off an 89.

I'm still kicking myself for not taking this off my donor truck.
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BTW, If I can't find one locally, what do you think of $20 plus shipping?
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87-91 for sure, might go all the way to 96 (97F250 super duty)
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PM me an address and I'll throw it in the mail for you. Too cold out to be pulling the dash out of a truck in the junkyard.
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Chris, did you get my PM?


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