Door interchangeability

[Bolo4u]

Hi All, Its been a while since I've posted here. Ive searched and think I have my answer, but am wanting to confirm. We have 1998 Ranger, xtra cab (not the rear opening doors), 6 foot bed. Our 15 year old son, exactly a week after getting his driver license, decided to part the truck on its roof... He is ok, mostly hurt his pride. So now we're in the repair process. When it (slow) rolled the driver mirror broke and tweaked the door a little, and he had to break out the glass to exit. This was the only broken glass, expect the mirror glass. The roof was pushed in, but not crushed as there is a headache ran on the bed that saved it. Left front fender and bed will need replaced. Since the driver door is tweaked some and the glass is gone, we have found a door (same color) from a same or newer year Ranger, but it is a single cab. I have read that the front doors from extra cabs will work on the models with the rear doors (both styles), but will the single cab door fit on the xtra cabs as well??? Thank you very m much in advance for any info!

 

[scotts90ranger]

Yes, it should, all '93-11 doors should "fit" but there's other little changes over the years, with your year range other than maybe running into wiring changes or door latch changes (goes with wiring...) you should be fine, you can easily swap the lock tumbler between the two as well

 

[Bolo4u]

Yes, it should, all '93-11 doors should "fit" but there's other little changes over the years, with your year range other than maybe running into wiring changes or door latch changes (goes with wiring...) you should be fine, you can easily swap the lock tumbler between the two as well

Thank you! It is a manual roll window, so there shouldn't be any wiring other than the speaker harness?? I just looked and only see two two-wire leads. Speaker and I'm guessing door open sensor. Still not 100% certain we'll replace the door. It will depend if the door wasn't tweaked enough to prevent a new window being installed. However, if a replacement window is $$$ then a replacement door with everything intact would be cheaper.

 

[scotts90ranger]

Yeah, speaker and door sensor are it in that case. Conveniently (sarcasm) there aren't any connections to unplug the harness so you'll want to disconnect the speaker and sensor and pull that out of the door before swapping the new door on if you go that route.

I don't think the chances of it being tweaked enough to not hold glass is going to be an issue, there's a support bar outside of the glass for side impact protection, swapping glass should be as simple as drilling two rivets, taking the tracks out to make room for the glass to go in then putting the replacement glass in with bolts instead of rivets.