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Feb 11, 2012 | 06:51 PM

eatfish

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Removing Doors

I posted up on the super duty forum, but thought maybe this might be Excursion specific information...

I have a 2000 Excursion and I just got side swiped by another truck. I want to remove both driver side doors (front and rear). Is there a plug that can be unplugged on the wire harness to remove the doors, or do I have to unplug each component in the door (ie locks, windows, speakers...) and leave the wires hanging from the wagon?

Thanks for any help.

Feb 11, 2012 | 08:12 PM

nzirbel

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I'm fairly certain you have to unplug the individual items and snake the wiring out of the door to get them completely off, but I've been wrong before

Feb 11, 2012 | 08:44 PM

bigzirb

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Originally Posted by nzirbel

I'm fairly certain you have to unplug the individual items and snake the wiring out of the door to get them completely off, but I've been wrong before

I'll second that, the you being wrong part bro, lol.

Eatfish, I would ask sunlinefan as he just stripped and entire Ex for his v10 to 7.3 conversion. His conversion is the sticky at the top of the forum. Good luck, hope no one got hurt in the crash.

Feb 11, 2012 | 09:33 PM

eatfish

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Thanks. I will see what I can find out and maybe message him. Nothing hurt except my wallet. I am glad to see how well the truck took the impact and I doubt they would have been injured at all, but I am glad my boys were not in the car with me. I am going to pull the doors and see if I can get the door post fixed enough to get some other doors to fit and just keep running. The dodge that hit me had its fair share of damage also.

Feb 11, 2012 | 11:06 PM

wallz

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I had to repair broken wires in the boot last summer when they frayed and found you have to snake them out. No one plug to make it easy for us.

Feb 11, 2012 | 11:42 PM

stupidloud

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The Ex has its wires ran into the truck, with plugs in the kick if I remember correctly. An explorer has a large plug in the door jam, held together by a bolt. It's actually not very common for domestic vehicles to have plugs in the jam, most are ran into the kick. Imports mostly have jam plugs. After 20 years of doing car audio, 15 professionally, I have worked on cars with both, and prefer plugs in the kick. A door boot is your friend!