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Today on this 2002 Ford Windstar we are going to be installing wiring harness part number 118366. We are here at the rear cargo area of the Windstar, we want to locate the ports that we need to plug our wiring harness into. These ports are located directly behind the tail light assembly on both the driver and passenger sides. The first thing we are going to do is remove the tail light assemblies. To do that we have two Phillips head screws at the top of the tail light that we are going to remove. With those two sides removed we also need to release this inside clips that are holding the tail light assembly on. There is one on the outboard side and one on the inboard side at the bottom. And then starting on the passenger side, we are going to start plugging the harness in line. On the passenger side we are actually going to be using two of the plug ins here. Using the top one and the middle one. If you look at the harness you can see on the short side of it you actually have two sets of connectors that are color coordinated to match the connectors on the vehicle. 1:09
The four-pole is also going to be routed through the grommet. It will be stored in our jack storage compartment, which is on the backside of our tail light here. I am going to take a flat head screw driver and pop that grommet out. Then I will take a pair of cutters and cut a slit into the grommet here so we can route our wires through it. Its not a bad idea to go ahead and cut out a part of the grommet, just to ensure that the wires do not get pinched when you route them through. Another thing I want to make mention of is when you are making all your runnings you want to make sure that you are run all the wires up and over this cross member here. If you accidentally route it underneath, when you put your tail light assembly back on it could possibly pinch the wire. I am going to go ahead and take and start routing take my driver side connector through. Then I will take the four-pole end of the harness and do the same thing. With those routed through, we can go ahead and put the grommet back into place. We have a a couple more things to do on the passenger side. You can see we have a red and blue wire, both with butt connectors. We need to take the blue wire here and connect it to the large lead of black wire that comes with the wiring harness kit and that will be our power source, we will take and route it underneath the vehicle and up to the positive side of the battery. To make the connection we want to take and strip back the jacketing on the black wire. Insert it in the butt connector and crimp our connection down. It is a good idea to add some electrical tape around that connection. Then we will take the other end and feed it through this small opening in the body of the bumper and that is going to allow us to get underneath our vehicle to make our run. The red wire with a butt connector is actually an accessory lead for a booster if needed. We do not need it so we are going to tape that off. 4:12
Now we are up underneath the hood compartment. You can see we have our black wire routed over here towards the positive terminal of the battery. What we are going to need to do is to add in line this fuse holder that is provided with the installation kit and then just cut this lead in half. The one end is going to connect directly to the positive terminal, and the other will connect to the black wire here. For the battery connection we are going to use the provided ring terminal, and to make the connection with our black wire we are going to use the provided butt connector. Again, we want to tape up the connection point. Take and remove the nut off the positive terminal over here and add our connection. Finally, we want to take our 10 amp fuse that is provided with our kit and it into the fuse holder. And then we are done. We want to go ahead and tie up any excess wire you may have with the cable ties that are included in the installation kit. From there our installation is complete. We are going to go over how to use your harness once it is finally installed. The four-pole is going to stay inside the jack storage compartment when you are not using it, when you are ready to use it take and pull it out the rear cargo door and go ahead and close the door on it, you do not have to worry about it being pinched, the weather stripping will prevent that from happening. With that, that will conclude the installation of wiring harness part number 118366 on a 2002 Ford Windstar.
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