Well guys, I've made some more progress today.

I got the diff cleaned up, brake lines removed for painting, and the rear stripped of it's drum brake assemblies. Tomorrow is supposed to be nice, so it'll get a coat of black enamel paint.

The bolts put up a bit of a fight on the backing plates, and they look pretty cheesed. When we pulled the Mustang backing plates, they came apart real easy, and we saved the bolts. So the Ranger bolts are going in the trash and the Mustang bolts are going to be used.

They appear to be the same, so I doubt this will cause any issues.

Oh, and I hardly touched the cover. It's only bolted on right now to keep the gears clean.










But, I gotta wait a little while before I can proceed on getting that rear end put back together after it's painted. Matter of funds and waiting on parts.

Until then, I'll be moving in on those power doors.

The passenger side will be a breeze. Old one comes off, new one goes on and the harness gets plugged in. Done like dinner.

Driver's side... Not so much. That big ol' plug behind the dash will need some extra wires added to one side and then to the door plug so those power options have something to connect to.

I stripped what I needed from the donor harness and found out I'd need to do some investigative work. One yellow wire goes to the power mirrors, but there's a total of 4 yellow wires in that harness. Using a circuit number, that wasn't too hard to figure out which was the one.

However, there are two orange/light green wires in that harness. I hunted and hunted through my schematics but didn't find anything.

Eventually I just looked at the harness itself. One goes to the door speaker, and the other and the power mirrors.

Unfortunately my diagram of that big plug doesn't go beyond pin 52, which really sucks because in this case, neither wire is listed. But.... I do have a way to figure out which is which without burning something up by trial and error.

I looked back at the speaker diagram and found it's matching wire. If I probe on the opposite wire with my meter (measuring AC) with the radio on, only one OG/LG will show some AC ripple. At that point it's just a matter of marking the wire appropriately and going from there.

So, even though I don't have all the wires 100% figured out, I have ways of figuring out what little remains.

Of course I will have to take the dash loose to get to this plug. Not looking forward to that.

Last edited on Mon Dec 23rd, 2019 01:29 am by TheArcticWolf1911