tnxj
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- Knoxville, TN
My wife's 99 XJ was an ex-military special with manual doors. When she bought it we paid a guy to install aftermarket keyless entry/ power door locks. Worked great (better than my 98 with factory pdl as far as range) for 5 years, but recently one of the aftermarket actuators has started slipping internally and making rather startling grinding noises intermittantly. The aftermarket actuators clamp onto the linkage rods that go to the interior door lock rockers (kind of ghetto). I've had to readjust the clamp setup several times over the years. Ideally I'd like to get rid of this crap rather than buy another universal actuator from somewhere.
Can I just swap in factory power actuators/latches and use the 2 wires that went to the aftermarket universal actuators to run them? I'm guessing the factory setup just used 2 wires too (switched hot and ground). Will they bolt up in the manual doors and the linkage all be the same? Everything looks very similar from my memories of what my 98 stuff looked like.
The aftermarket keyless entry controller with the factory actuators/latches seems like it would be a cleaner setup if it's possible.
Can I just swap in factory power actuators/latches and use the 2 wires that went to the aftermarket universal actuators to run them? I'm guessing the factory setup just used 2 wires too (switched hot and ground). Will they bolt up in the manual doors and the linkage all be the same? Everything looks very similar from my memories of what my 98 stuff looked like.
The aftermarket keyless entry controller with the factory actuators/latches seems like it would be a cleaner setup if it's possible.
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