Thanks for the tips, but I didn't check here until it was too late
Just push them out the front wire hole in the door.
This was my problem all along. There were some wires that I could not find disconnect points for on the door. My initial plan of attack was to do this, but I would have still have to cut one or two wires I couldn't find disconnects for, or dig into to the door to find the connectors. Plus, the new door from the junk yard had multi-wire plugs.
Here's what I found, for anyone else who might need this for the future.
As Monmix said, there is no point to pulling out the dash unless you want to waste 45 minutes. I went a head and cut the cables with a great big pair of pliars, since i don't need any of the stuff in the old door anyway, and the plugs are inside the vehicle. I wanted to get the door out of the way to try to locate the plugs. I had the door sitting on a pair of jackstands, so I just pulled the bolts, slid the door out of the hinges on the jackstands, and lifted it out of the way. It is rather heavy, but not unmanageable.
My new door had mult-wire plugs so I knew they were in there. But there is not enough slack in the wires in the body to pull them out through the holes. But if you remove the kickpanel, and some of the molding you will find a black bundle of cables that comes from the back left of the vehicle and goes up behind the parking brake. This cable is attached to the cable and plugs we want, but they are snugly behind the black plastic panel(waterguard?), which is conviniently behind the parking brake control assembly. So i pulled the parking brake cont asym, there is enough slack in the brake cable to just move it over a few inches, to peel that black plastic panel to access the wires. If you pull the plastic tabs that hold that cable that comes from the back out of the body, you can pull the wire to you enough to expose the plugs.
So it is kind of a PITA. But not nearly as bad as removing the upper door hinges. I could find no easy way to access the nut that is on the inside of the body, so I had to shove more of that black plastic stuff out of the way, and feel my way in there with a small rachet and extension. I am not looking forward to putting the new one on. Took a good hour of trying to slide a wrench up there, until I finally got mad and shoved my way in.
So I guess I am half way there. I didn't relalize that my hinge was bent until I got the door off, so I have to go find one of those today. Hopefully everything in the new door works OK.
