door switches

[Justin Fleming]

How many wires should be connected to the door switch. I see two spade terminals so I assume two wires to complete the circuit. My passenger switch only has a white wire connected....I cant really see a good way to get in there and see if there is a broken wire floating around....

 

[dremu]

My older trucks just have the one down the center, white sounds right. The outside of the switch grounds to the body of the truck to complete the circuit. [The domelight is hot all the time and the minus side goes over that wire to the switch to ground.]

And don't lose the wire when you're fiddling with it, as otherwise you have to take the truck apart and maybe cut sheetmetal to fish it out again. Just sayin

-- A

 

[Heavyleft]

Mine is an 87. I have two on the driver side and one on the passenger side. If you lose one behind the sheet metal, figure out which one it is that comes into the cab from the lower passenger side, pull it out into the cab, popping out the rubber grommet. Fish a hanger from the door jamb into the whole that goes to the cab, attach door switch wire, pull it through and voila! Re-attach the door plunger.

 

[Justin Fleming]

so I have two wires on the drivers side and one wire on the passenger side, so maybe that is correct. I can seem to see any other wire in the passenger side and I thought with two terminals etc. that it should match the driver side....But it sounds like 1 wire on the passenger side is what you have....

 

[rebelgregory]

Yes, just one on pass side. You have 2 terminals on the switch because both doors use same switch.

 

[Justin Fleming]

Yes, just one on pass side. You have 2 terminals on the switch because both doors use same switch.

Ok any idea where I should start to chase a buzzer staying on? If someone has electrical diagram that would be helpful.

Something does not seem correct with the passengers door, because when I open that door only no buzzer and no dome light.

 

[USSkoval]

IIRC, the driver switch has two terminals because one triggers the dome lights (and is tied to the other switch) while the other goes the the key reminder buzzer.

 

[rebelgregory]

Try here for wiring Diagram

http://brochures.slosh.com/