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Lookin' good, I say. Certainly an improvement over what I had.
Once that was done, I moved on to the doors. Driver's side door harness has been swapped in the new door, so I have a plug now. Not much to see there.
However, the passenger side door is now on the truck and plugged in. Passenger side is all good to go, electrically. Tried the door locks and they seem to work just fine so far. Circuit is incomplete for the windows, and the mirrors. That said, the fuse box and the relay box under the dash have all that they need. Now I just need to do some work to get to that big ol' plug.
Which brings me to the plan. I'm going to pull out the interior next. I need the room to get the dash out, and I need to get the parts out so that they can be dyed. So, that's the next step. The dash is also going to come all the way out and onto a chair. Might as well at this point, and it will make getting those wires run much easier. That said, the majority of the interior won't be going back together until the engine swap is done and over. That will give the dye plenty of time to cure. They'll take a break up in the attic in the meantime after dyeing.
When it's ready to drive the truck to another garage, I'll put the dash and one seat in so that it can be driven.
That said, I need to aquire some things. Not much.
Vinyl floor to replace my carpet.
06 textured power mirrors.
Something to fill those door panel holes with. I'm thinking a marker light...
An RGB strip.
....Which leads me nicely into my next change. I'm going to make an upgrade to my gauge cluster and HVAC. I've just got blue LEDs at this moment. I'm going to replace them with a single strip wrapped around the inside of the cluster. That combined with the controller I have will let me bask in the sweet glory that is RGB slow fade. I'm a sucker for that. That same controller will also allow me to tune the brightness much more than what the stock dimmer does.
Also, speaking of lighting. I used to have turn signal mirrors, until they got damaged due to how I had the wires run. How would you guys go about adding turn signal lights to these 06 mirrors? Unfortunately thunderbolt 06 mirror glass isn't a thing, otherwise I'd do that.
I now leave you with more progress pics. Interior is a bit messy, at the moment!
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1999 Ford Ranger XLT - 3.0 V6 4x4 - Loaded (Totaled) 143k. Rest in Peace, Gold Dust.