So i am still chasing electrical gremmlins in the jeep.
Passenger side door has a broken "door ajar switch" and I figured I would replace that to see if it fixes the drain from interior lights.
Got the part, but it looks like there are 2 connections. The one I pulled had only one and there is only one wire coming out. Wiring diagram seem to show only one wire..... so I pulled the driver side one to see and there are 2 wires.
Part number is the same for both sides so I think this is the right part.

Any insights.... (no need to say that since I pulled the driver side one, nothing is working because I am that lucky )

 

i'm not positive but last time i was at the junkyard i saw both of kind of the switches. you can just go the junkyard and try find another one like yours.

 

just fixed mine, got the part from the dealer, driver side has three prongs, two for pos neg and one for the ignition (beeping while key is(or dome lighton) turned on and door open,

passenger side should have three as well, they break off easy with corrosion, i had to re-do mine with a computer pin kit!



this was for a 1998...
PART NO FOR THE DRIVER SIDE = 4373296 SWITCH DO 8053002

 

FORGOT to mention, the rear doors are two prong! connectors, maybe someone swaped a rear switch to the front for a quick fix? not sure..

 

Thanks for the insight, i will take a look, but I am not sure that on the 89xj, this is the same switch....
As far as i know, part number is right... i just have one wire coming from passenger door and I am wondering why.

I have seen some replacement parts that have only one prong and are labelled as auto grounding... maybe this is what i need...idk

 

Just took the switches out of my 89 and cleaned them yesterday. The Drivers side front was 2 prong. Passengers front was one prong, and both back doors where one prong.

 

Thanks Defiance, this confirms what the wiring diagram shows I guess....
Since they sold the one with 2 prongs and this is supposed to be good for passenger door (as er their catalog) I installed it and everything is working so far.... Did not solve my short/drain on battery but at least it is fixed.

 

I dont know what the second wire is for on the drivers side, maybe for the buzzer? I touched it to ground and nothing, touched it together with the other wire and nothing either. I dont have my buzzer though, so im not sure if that may be what its for.
The clip was bad, so I just clipped the wire and am using the two prong switch with one wire.

 

And that, Defiance, is exactly why I like woring/learning on this truck.... if you don't need it and it doesn't work, just cut it off.... i have just finished removing the rear wiper wiring, speakers etc....
I did make the mistake to try to put the passenger door switch in while connected with one wire and leaving the second one empty... well I must not have been awake as the battery was plugged in.... that makes some nice sparks/archs and colors....
Right now, it is working and stable (yes I have decided to remove the word "fixed" from my vocabulary and go for stable.....)

 

Well I pulled the switch out, un plugged it, cleaned it up a bit as it was pretty corroded looking, and when I stuck it back in, it works now. We'll see if that was the culprit. I'm going to try and do some more troubleshooting later as well.

 

Wrong thread sorry.

 

well not really wrong thread... lol
looks like we are sharing the same boat on that....