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I have an 84 F150 4x4 I want to put electric windows and doors on mine. I have the harness I also have the other doors. But not sure on how to wire it up to my fuse box. PLEASE HELP. Thanks
I have an 84 F150 4x4 I want to put electric windows and doors on mine. I have the harness I also have the other doors. But not sure on how to wire it up to my fuse box. PLEASE HELP. Thanks
More Turbo
Joined: Jul 2003
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From: SC
I did this to my 82. You should have 3 harnesses, one in each door and the one that goes across the dash. The main one simply plugs into the rear of the fuse box, IF you carefully removed it form the donor truck. Then you can just slap a circuit breaker into the previously unused fuse position. If you are adding power locks at the same time (they're in the power window harness anyway) then they hook up the same way on their own circuit breaker.
My truck was "plug and play" as far as the wiring went but I took considerable care in removing the wiring. I cut no wires and had to patch nothing in.
If your wires were cut, best to find another harness. More practical (and cheaper) to get the missing connectors and a few inches of wire out of a fuse box. Use good butt connectors to attach them to the wiring harness you already have.
You surely could tap into power in other ways, but none I can think of that would be better than what the factory did. Your fuse box is already set up to provide the power needed, it's just that the two leads to the switches themselves were never installed. Getting them out of the donor box without bending the connectors up is annoying. But once you have them, they'll pop right into the back of your fusebox.
My truck was "plug and play" as far as the wiring went but I took considerable care in removing the wiring. I cut no wires and had to patch nothing in.
If your wires were cut, best to find another harness. More practical (and cheaper) to get the missing connectors and a few inches of wire out of a fuse box. Use good butt connectors to attach them to the wiring harness you already have.
You surely could tap into power in other ways, but none I can think of that would be better than what the factory did. Your fuse box is already set up to provide the power needed, it's just that the two leads to the switches themselves were never installed. Getting them out of the donor box without bending the connectors up is annoying. But once you have them, they'll pop right into the back of your fusebox.
More Turbo
Joined: Mar 2002
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From: Easthampton, Ma.
It's a very simple set up. The harness is strung along the top of the dash under the removeable padding.
The plug for the locks goes to a battery receptical in the fuse box, the one for the windows goes to the accessories receptical in the fuse box.
The male end of the plugs are configured so that they only go into the correct recepticles.
If you wire both to the battery receptical, you won't have to switch on the key to put the windows up.
This comes in handy when you're not home but your truck is and it starts to rain and mom goes to put your windows up!
Good luck!
The plug for the locks goes to a battery receptical in the fuse box, the one for the windows goes to the accessories receptical in the fuse box.
The male end of the plugs are configured so that they only go into the correct recepticles.
If you wire both to the battery receptical, you won't have to switch on the key to put the windows up.
This comes in handy when you're not home but your truck is and it starts to rain and mom goes to put your windows up!
Good luck!
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i started fresh and im making a new setup but the only problem is the switches i need dpdt for windows and spdt for locks as i have relays but they work with the negative pulse from alarm, when the alarm does this it only gives ground right?
