skoville
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- December 16, 2016
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- Location
- Turmoil, Nevada
- City, State
- Silver Springs, NV
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 1997 Ford Explorer XLT
Hi gang. I have a feeling I'm going about this the wrong way. The sunroof motor has 3 wires. Red in the middle and blue on one side and brown on the other. The motor is out and my thought was ; red=positive; blue=close; brown=open. (Or vice versa) I'm getting the impression that the switch comes into play to swap the leads to reverse the power. The console is from a 1999 Ext a little concerned about burning something out. I just got this motor from EBay so it probably has a better chance of being good than my old one. I read along the way about there being a delay but 10 seconds would be enough time to fry something.
Am I overthinking this? I didn't even know the sunroof opened. All that was there was the motor and the plug with the 3 wires. No connection to go to. My thought was to run a wire to a tap in the fuse panel and ground the unit, or ground one of the wires. I'm seriously thinking about welding the gear to a speed wrench and happily crank it open and closed. I would like to use the switch and have the extra map lights. Not really concerned about not having the compass, temp modes working. How or why the harness was removed I don't know. There are wires cut or missing everywhere. I think there must have been a short somewhere and his solution was to cut/remove wires until it was good enough to sell. I have to admit it runs great, hasn't burnt or leaked a drop of oil and I like it.
Any ideas?
Am I overthinking this? I didn't even know the sunroof opened. All that was there was the motor and the plug with the 3 wires. No connection to go to. My thought was to run a wire to a tap in the fuse panel and ground the unit, or ground one of the wires. I'm seriously thinking about welding the gear to a speed wrench and happily crank it open and closed. I would like to use the switch and have the extra map lights. Not really concerned about not having the compass, temp modes working. How or why the harness was removed I don't know. There are wires cut or missing everywhere. I think there must have been a short somewhere and his solution was to cut/remove wires until it was good enough to sell. I have to admit it runs great, hasn't burnt or leaked a drop of oil and I like it.
Any ideas?