Has Anyone Installed Electric Door Locks?

crashcaptn said

Thanks all - it's absolutely a mod i'll be doing in the near future and wanted to find out if anyone experienced any issues or believed it wasnt a project worth their time. About the trunk stuff - I also found an 80's Mopar electric trunk release (on ebay) that comes with wiring and the button, so i'll be installing that shortly.

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that should be an easy upgrade. If you have a couple of extra window regulators and about 30 minutes at a salvage yard you can usually score a couple good little motors for you electric windows and adapt the spare regulators to motorized, here was mine\
1st take old regulator out and gut the crank handle by drilling out the rivets. open up the hole so that the motor will fit into the regulator and mesh with the gears. make 3 bolt hole C and tack it to the regulator for a motor mount


there is the hole so it'll mesh with the gears.


sheet metal C bracket with hole to mount motor bolted on and tacked to the regulator for mesh. you can make it pretty later if you'd like.


you can see the C bracket between the motor and the regulator. this one had to be undone and the bottom end of the motor had to be moved a lot closer to the regulator.


here it is moved closer so I could get enough adjustment on the glass.



C sheet metal bracket and bolted to the motor. WORKS great. (and I'm cheap too!)I have $30 in 4 motors and 17.00 in 2 new(to me) regulators. I have some extra convertible rears.
the rear ones are done with a lot more difficulty and extra sheet metal cutting, but they do work too.