Wow, almost a year since I posted & I just got an email that this thread is
alive. None of my replacements sounded right and worse, they weren't
as loud as the original chime. As did clchambers, I finally replaced the foam
ring in my unit. I found mine at an Ace Hardware in the little cardboard
case of drawers full of odd fasteners, etc. There was a drawer full of
"O" rings and I bought the 3 that most closely matched the disk. All metric
as I recall. Went home and one fit the case perfectly. It sounds just like
new. Cost: .25

 

Hi Rangerang, How about a reply two years later!

Just wanted to say thanks for posting your "O" ring solution. I kept leaving my lights on accidentally and running the battery down on my '91 Ranger (fortunately it's a stick). The chime in this truck has been nearly silent since about 1994 and I never used to have a problem, but now that I have a newer Ranger for a daily driver I guess my brain got re-programmed to rely on the chime. I finally figured out where the chime was, typed the part number in Google, and this thread was the only hit. I scraped the old foam off, found an "O" ring of about the same diameter, re-assembled, and it works like new.

So again... Thank you! I never would have thought about an "O" ring, I would have been trying to slice up foam rubber.

Steffen

 

Wow. All the way back to 2003. None of it 99-03 related either. How did it end up here? At any rate it is testimony to how useful the site is. What an archive it has become.

 

Isn't that wild....03, 05, 06, and now 08. Crazy!!

When this thread originated we didn't have seperate forums for the 94-97 and 99-03 trucks. It was just "Powerstroke". All the threads were split up by hand into the seperate forums. We evidently missed a few......hundred.

 

and now 2010!! Big help... as I inherited a wiring nightmare with my pre-runner project... i had no idea what this thing was! My truck doesn't make any dinging or donging anyway, so I can comfortably remove this now!! Thanks!!!!

ken

 

Wow, a 6 year old thread that keeps helping and helping all these years later!

Stewart

 

Just found the fix for my 1990 F350! This was the first link that came up on Google when I looked up my door chime part number. Thanks a million!

 

Welcome to FTE and the future.

 

LOL what a useful thread this has become. 6 years and still running.

 

Unfortunately it's not so helpful with math - it's almost exactly 7 years old....

 

I just found this thread by a google search and it sure solved my 1991 f150 chime problem with a 40 cent o-ring thanks to these posts

 

I'd also like to "chime" in here...get it? "Chime" in, Ford Chime module; never mind.

This thread just helped me fix a nagging problem I've had with my 1990 F-250 4X4 7.3 IDI/NA.

Thanks guys!

 

The item is Ford part number E9EB-10D840-AA Chime Module

The problem was the foam washer had broken down and become too compressed to make the chime audible...if you stuck your head under the dash you could hear it. I've left my headlights on by accident because I am dumb and I couldn't hear the chime module.

The cure was to disassemble the chime module, scrape off the old foam washer, and install a very thin o-ring of the appropriate diameter. I bought the o-ring at my local hardware store. The data from the o-ring package is:

#39 O-RING
P/N 9D0035753B

SKU 0 37155 35753 6

The cost was $0.62 with tax for the o-ring and one man-hour of labor.

Hope this information will benefit someone someday.

 

Hey all. Chiming in from late 2017!

I bought a used 1989 Bronco II a few years ago in beautiful shape. I didn't realize it even had a door/headlight/seat belt buzzer for almost a year because the sound was so faint. Last night I located the buzzer module (E9EB-10D840-AA), removed it from the dash and opened it up. Picked up a #39 o-ring and secured it to the diaphragm with some Krazy glue after removing as much of the old foam as possible. At first I thought the #39 was just a hair too big, but it seems to fit just fine. Put it all back together and now I can see why some people ripped their's out it's so loud! I'll never forget to turn off my headlights again!

 

It would make a few guys scratch their heads if we moved it now.

Stewart