Front door wiring harness

[Jco5]

I would like to know if all the front door panel wiring harnesses are interchangeable.

What I want is to install lights in the door panels , but there are no plugs to connect the lights. I have a 97 Sho with a door keypad and would like to know can I swap the door panel wiring harness with 96 wiring harness with the connectors and keypad.

 

[gamefanatic]

I am not real experienced with variations of the keypads, but believe they should be the same. Did you not a difference in connectors?

 

[sperold]

You have to look at the Electrical and Vacuum Troubleshooting Manual (EVTM) for both years and see how Ford has deleted the light feature and replaced it with a reflector. They are available on E-Bay for usually about $15.00 each, or maybe someone on this forum will post them here.

Since the idea of this change was de-contenting to save money, Ford may have simplified the whole harness, making them hard to marry, but that is just a guess by me. Do these cars have that rotary can connector on the door hinge pivot on the drivers side?

Common sense tells you they should interchange since they are only 1 year apart, but crazy things happen.
I had a late 80s Tempo and I thing they only had one wiring harness, every option ever offered was built into the harness. But I did not see that in the Taurus line of cars, even the Gen I & IIs.

 

[NoSlo]

There is no circuit for interior lighting to the doors. As in: no wiring in the doors, and no wiring in the car's door plugs or in the car.

You'd have to tap into one of the under-dash light bulb wires for a door-open courtesy light signal (black/light blue). And then pull pins out of junkyard door connectors to add these wires to the plug in the door.

And no illuminated entry handle switch or wire in either door (Pink/Light Green, wiring to the GEM module pin 10).



The other wiring and even colors is still the same.

 

[gamefanatic]

Interesting. Yes, My '96's both light up and my 2010 MKz lights up. I'd almost thought the issue may be just the light in the pad was out.

 

[Jco5]

Thanks for the info and quick replys.

I have another question for the door panel lights on the 96 model Sho, are there any cars with the same with the same type of plug. The plug that connects the lights to the door harness. When I go to the junkyard I want to soure a plug connector from another car.

 

[NoSlo]

The clips for the 211-2 style tubular bulb are molded into the housing:



Depending on how late your car was made, it may have holes but no clips inserted:


Or just be molded flat with no space for a bulb at all:


In addition, you need the clear lens, F6DZ-13734-AA:


Another forum's user posted that on his early 97 door harness it still had the wiring plug for the door panel light up near the corner sail, he just needed the bulb clips and their wiring off another door (and lens).

The bulb wire connector face is not listed in the EVTM. The longest end of the correct harness will have four connectors (an additional two for illuminated entry and door lock switch). Instead, just splice in any two-wire plug pigtail if you're not going to get a complete 96 door harness and panel. In the door you need black (ground) and the light's power.

If you are looking at 96 doors with everything, you might as well just get the whole door panel and door harness - even go crazy and get a handle with the switch (dunno if later GEM modules will understand the door switch though). Then you just need to add the pin(s) on the car side of the door plug.

In another Taurus forum, look at the post "adding circuits to door jamb" to see how to add back the missing wire (or see if you've still got it).

 

[Jco5]

Thanks

I have all the pieces need except the connector plug. I installed the lights in the door lower door panels. The only thing I was deciding was to get the harnesses or splice into the lights. If I went the splicing route I wanted to find a car with the connector plug . So I would easily take off our panel if needed.

Sorry for bad typing still at work.