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Power passenger seat install questions....

Reply #15
I'm still going to get a pic....hang in there........
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Power passenger seat install questions....

Reply #16
If I remember I thought the wires came from the front center by the dash.If I get a chance I'll look at the tc again, snap a pic or 2, this weekend, maybe tomorrow.
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Power passenger seat install questions....

Reply #17
Hey ic what do you have by the console? Can't tell in the pic. You should be able splice into the other switch, it's all the same functions!, I think.
Old Grey Cat to this.88 Cat, 5.0 HO, CW mounts, mass air, CI custom cam, afr165's, Tmoss worked cobra intake, BBK shorty's,off road h pipe, magnaflow ex. T-5,spec stage 2 clutch, 8.8 373 TC trac loc, che ajustables with bullits on the rear. 11" brakes up front. +

Power passenger seat install questions....

Reply #18
here's what I have right now. It made it as far as the center console.


Also have another partial harness I could possibly use for this.
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Power passenger seat install questions....

Reply #19
When I took out my dash to do my heater core, I had to remove the center console. When I did that I found the passenger side harness with the flat connector hidden under the sound deadner. It looks like I just have to find the switches to plug into that conector in the console and find where the pass seat harness connector is.
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Power passenger seat install questions....

Reply #20
Quote from: daminc;320872
I'll look into the splicing first, but there are a fist full of wires on the cut harness I have.

Without having the correct end for my harness (or any end)... Is this where it would connect?


That is the seat harness plug. This is the end that plugs into the seat motor. The way this works is it picks up power from the switches then routes to the seat motors.

 

Power passenger seat install questions....

Reply #21
Look closely at this picture. This is my car stripped of the interior leaving only the harnesses in the floor. The plug in the floor that is positioned at the driver's seat goes to the seat motors. This runs over to the power seat switch. The power seat switch simply has 12+ and a ground supplied to it then the rest of the wires red and yellow go to the seat motors.

Keep in mind, I only had the factory driver's side power seat at this time. The last pictures will show the splice into the harness to power the passenger seat.





The splice to connect the power passenger seat to the power wires that supply the switch of the driver's seat. Black and White wire is 12v+ and solid black is ground. Primarily look for these two wires in your existing floor hardness. If these wires are not present anywhere in your existing floor harness or along the driver's side rocker area then you will need to find a hefty 12v+ circuit to connect to somewhere under the dash near the fuse panel. This should help you tremendously with the wire colors going to the swiches. Be aware you may have to switch some pins around on the connectors to get the seat switches to function in the directions that you want them to go. My passenger seat frame came out of a Lincoln Continental so some of the switch functions were switched around and I had to simply remove pins and placed them where they need to go. If you took your harness out of a Tbird/Cougar then they should be already correct.

None of the power seat motor wiring goes into the main chassis harness, just the black/white and black. The seat motor wires are only contained from the switches to each individual seat.

Driver's switch connector is on the right. Added on passenger switch is on the left.





Installed passenger seat frame...



I hope all this helps!