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Old 08-04-2011, 10:51 AM
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eh, the first one looks iffy. 2nd looks good. and the 3rd is the butt splice, not sure if that is a heat shrink tho, just go there and ask them, they should have it.

When I got my smart plugs adapter from waly world, the package did not label it as 98+ ranger. It was listed as 98+ explorer/sport trac. That is the same thing. The one you get will most likely have two or three aditional ends on them. You can go ahead and cut them off, you WANT THE BIG SQUARE ONE.
so i cut the extra plugs off of my harness and, for the sake of preventing any possible short outs, im left with a question

should i
1) cut the wires at the point where they had the other harnesses attached and then just attach it to the cd player harness there?
2) put shrink wrap tubing over the area in which i cut off the extra harnesses?


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Old 08-04-2011, 10:53 AM
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I would just snip them as far as you can. You may want to leave the yellow and red, just crimp off the ends. These are nice for down the road you'll have a key hot and a constant hot to wire something up, maybe like an OHC
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Old 08-18-2011, 01:22 PM
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thanks for the help everybody, especially pooleo. couldnt have figured it out without you

heres the final product
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Old 08-18-2011, 05:10 PM
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Very nice clean install.

Id almost bet its a 50-50 thing for ranger owners to install slot on bottom or slot on top...

mines on bottom

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Old 08-18-2011, 05:58 PM
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HEY!, looks like you got the same one I have but with red instead of blue!!


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Old 08-19-2011, 06:42 AM
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Very nice clean install.

Id almost bet its a 50-50 thing for ranger owners to install slot on bottom or slot on top...

mines on bottom
i actually did that because the directions said to put it on top, and that you could put it on bottom by cutting it a little bit but i didnt really feel like doing that.
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HEY!, looks like you got the same one I have but with red instead of blue!!
that does look the same, maybe you can change the lighting in the settings
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