@ebryson did some pretty precise work hacking the old harness and putting in a new weatherpack type connector. Trailer harness is good to go last week sometime. I just funded the project while he rolled his eyes at my "skills" in wiring. We moved onto fixing my trailer brakes for our wiring fun of late.
Still liking this truck quite a bit. I've used almost a quarter tank of deezel in it so far. This truck is BARELY an XLT with the rubber floor and such. I do have cloth seats, power windows and locks (locks need the updates that all Stuper Duty of this era need) and that's about it. It's a seemingly solid old dawg and should give me the service I'm looking for out of it. Previous owner named it "Sally". I'm not sure if that's sticking or not? "Tree-fiddy" seems to be the going name so far.
I'm surprised how much I wanted the manual trans and how much I have forgotten about driving a manual trans around town. Hill starts and such, I've had to relearn things a bit. I killed it once at a stoplight because I had the truck in 3rd rather than 1st. Just things you need to relearn or learn about the truck/car you're driving. There's good and bad there. Mostly good but I've admittedly become pretty lazy about the automagic transmissions. This vs the 4R100, I'll take the manual every time.
I still need to figure out the cruise control issue. Seems like it could be a number of sensors and/or the clockspring. The horn works, so internet legend is that the clockspring is good.
There's some kind of wiring gremlin with the left turn signal you get some feedback through the aftermarket stereo. Not real impressed with the stereo install so I'm putting my $ on an installation issue of some kind (and that might fix the cruise depending on what that's plugged into).
Has anyone added power mirrors to something like this? Is the wiring in the door and I just need to buy mirrors and the factory window switch panel with the power mirror switch/joystick? More involved than that?
