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Old 09-25-2008, 10:04 PM   #1
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Can i swap doors and make the electrical work?

So i found a truck that i want. Only thing is it has manual locks and windows, I want power. I Know of a perfect s10 at a junk yard with power locks and windows. If i took those doors off the junk s10, then shaved and painted them, then swapped. What would i have to do to make the power windows work?
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Re: Can i swap doors and make the electrical work?

run switched power to the appropriate wires.... and constant to the other appropriate wires... i have a 97 s10 and i swaped in power stuff from a 200 bravada...
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Re: Can i swap doors and make the electrical work?

ya its really not to hard unless you swap the harnesses but its much easyer to run power to them just like said above
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Re: Can i swap doors and make the electrical work?

yeah... just run power and ground wires, swapping in a factory harness is HUGE balls.... i dont recommend it
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Re: Can i swap doors and make the electrical work?

Alright so just run the wires instead of buy new doors. What about the window cranks? Do you think a tweeter would fit in there? Or should i just go about new door panels.
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Re: Can i swap doors and make the electrical work?

what? no you still need the other doors... or at the very least the guts and panels from them if they are in the same year bracket as yours (inner structure for 94-97 is different than 98-03)... the harness im talking about is the part that runs into the cab, up under the dash, and through the firewall... the door harness has a disconnect plug at the jamb
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Re: Can i swap doors and make the electrical work?

Oh alright i get it now.
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Re: Can i swap doors and make the electrical work?

i used the 97 panels on mine...left a hole where the window crank was, but i'm glassing the panels.... and i'm running the switches in my console i'm building. and people have put tweeters in the window crank hole...makes for poor imaging though...
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