I want to redo my interior, but with newer stuff. I heard somewhere that anything from 1980-1996 could be used. Can I use gauges and door panels off a 92-96 model? Add power windows, locks, and mirrors? Add a newer dash? Add white or glowing gauges? If you have any other ideas of what I should do to my truck let me know?

 

i have the same idea in mind a 91 dash.

 

it will all fit with a little modification. none of the wiring is the same though, so you have to use the harness out of the donor truck or splice the correct plugs onto yours.

 

by under the hood what do u mean? what other wires are there to change?

 

I've done it:
http://www.webphotos.com/list_photos.asp?mi=3&smi=1&a=13217

You can't put a '92-up dash in a pre-'92 body, but you can swap in some of the instruments. I have a PSOM ('92-97 speedometer) in my '83 cluster.

If you want '92-97 door panels, you have to go to '92-97 vent windows, but you can keep your '80-86 main door glass if you remove the plastic spacer inside the track on the back of the vent window frame.

Another nice swap is '78-?current Autolamps. It's the automatic headlight system in luxury cars like Town Cars & Grand Marquis. The only REALLY necessary components are the headlight switch, the sensor from the dash, and the wiring pigtails. You can use any relays and it's extremely convenient. I haven't turned on my headlights in months! Some even come with autodimming brights, but for that you'll also need the oncoming headlight sensor from either the grille or the rear-view mirror.

If you don't already have remote keyless entry, Sam's Club sells the Bulldog R114 RKE & remote starter for $50. It comes with ALL the tools & materials needed to install it on vehicles with power locks & automatic transmission, and has a video tape to help. You can get expansion modules online that will integrate with factory alarms or operate power windows.

 

im thinking now of instead putting a 87-91 dash to just use the wheel and will all the instruments from an 87-91 work in my 81 f-100 i mean like the way u did but all the gauges from a 81 -91. To put the door panels from an 92-96 ford what is it that i have to take out.




thanks

 

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 20-Nov-02 AT 01:48 AM (EST)]The gauges don't really "work" on pre-'87 trucks - I had to change those 2 gauges because I did an EFI swap and the new system needed that style gauge. You could phisically install them in your cluster like I did (I had to carve some plastic & rewire the cluster as you could see in some of the pics), but they don't work with the older sending units. You'd have to also switch to an EFI-type oil pressure sender & water temp sender. Of course the voltmeter will work fine in any 12V vehicle, but the gas gauge only works with EFI fuel level senders.

The PSOM is a nice swap, but requires some ingenuity to mount & wire up.

You don't really have to take anything out to fit the '92-97 door panels onto the doors, but they overhang the front corners of the vent windows. '92-97 vent windows have the front corner chopped off to match, but the frame of the vent window has a plastic spacer where the main window felt goes. This is because '87-97 main windows are shorter front-to-back than '80-86. So you have to either swap to the shorter (later) window or pull out the spacer. You also have to move the armrest brace on the inner door skin and pull the driver's door harness all the way across the dash to the passenger's kick panel.

 

what does efi mean?

 

Electronic Fuel Injection

Shirley, you can't be serious...

 

my truck needs a new carburator and my mechnaic told me i can make my truck into fuel injection so maybe i will so all u did is change the senders to efi and a efi sythem?

 

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 22-Nov-02 AT 10:51 PM (EST)]No, an EFI swap is pretty involved. It's not too hard if you go about it methodically and make sure you understand everything you have to do before you start, but you have to have a good grasp of 12V circuitry to get it right. I've done it twice:
http://www.webphotos.com/list_photos.asp?mi=3&smi=1&a=13217
http://www.webphotos.com/list_photos.asp?mi=3&smi=1&a=13215

 

what doors i mean the actual doors will fit on my 81 f-100?

 

What are you asking about?

 

i mean going to the junk yard and buying a door by door i mean the shell glass panel, will it fit on my 81 f-100.

 

the doors are a direct bolt on. look in my gallery, 81 f100 with 87 front clip, interior and doors.