Removing Drivers Door for Wiring Loom Feed - Any Tips??

[Juddder]

Hi everyone

I'm in the process of reconnecting my later model drivers door wiring to my earlier model main car wiring (photos of combined loom of new plugs joined onto original plugs I made below) and after a bit of advice.

In order to feed the wires from the end of the door loom to the main car wiring, it looks like I'm going to need to take the door off as the gap in between the door and post looks too small to pull the 3 plugs necessary through (ascii diagram!)

          car body           car door

                  |          |
                  |          O----- wires to door
                  |          |
                  |          |
wires to car -----O          |
                  |          |

Does anyone know if it _is_ possible to drag the wires from the door, out of the gap and back into the car body, or am I going to have to take the door off?

Also, and tips as for the best way to take the door off?

As far as I can see there is a nut at the top (fairly well stuck in to the depths of the top of the door front) however it's going to be me, myself and I doing the job so if there's a simple way to either drop the door, or remove it easily it would be great to know!

Many thanks for any tips :-)

Edited by Juddder on Monday 3rd August 15:14

Edited by Juddder on Monday 3rd August 15:18

[Juddder]

Any thoughts? (trying to avoid this one falling down the very busy and fun forum :-))

[Ireland]

Is there any info in the service manual about removing / replacing the doors?

There's a link to an on-line copy of the manual in the equivalent parts thread as far as I know.

[Juddder]

Thanks for the tips Ireland - I think I have what you mean here

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dave.hinns/workshop.h...

although lots of the pages seem to be dead so not sure if anyone has a copy of the Body/Door one saved somewhere on their machine?

Also, I noticed that the Equivalent Parts list on the web link is now dead, so have created a back-up from the Internet Archive and hosted it on my own site here for everyone

http://www.alexjudd.com/cerbera/parts.html

:-)

[Juddder]

One other quick question on the same subject is does anyone know where within the door the door ECU block should be positioned?

The one for the replaced door came with the wiring loom in the boot, so I have no visual reference of where it should sit and I had a cursory look at the passengers door but couldn't easily see it there to match.

Also - would it make sense to encase this ECU and it's sponge block in a water tight plastic bag or similar to avoid any rain/water damage?