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That's a good question. I hadn't even thought about whether different doors had the marker light or not until you mentioned it. I just knew that mine did, and the wire guards were broken and the wires were getting munched and mangled.
Do your door wires not have the plastic guard tubes on them? I'm curious how many people's are broke and gone. They all should have had them. One of mine was gone, and the other was broken and slid down the wire to hide it inside the dash.
After a couple revisions, I finished up a version that works really well. The plastic wire guides come in two halves, so you can install them right over the wires without needing to feed them over the connectors, and are clipped together with external snap rings.
The original wire guides are...
I don't. I've been working on putting together a little online store, but that takes time too and time is the thing in shortest supply. I still have to finish up the design for the cab bushing master patterns, but I wanted to get these wire guards done quick before the wires got damaged.
If this is the first one of my posts you've seen, I make a ton of 3D printed stuff for FMTVs... door handles, tachometer pods, inclinometer mounts, seal drivers, hub setup tools, etc.
The Army announced several months ago that they will be making a big effort to get 3D printing out to units...
The wiring harness that goes into my doors, for the clearance marker light, had these little curved plastic tubes on them. Well, one door did, the other was gone. And then the other one got broken... uh oh. So I decided to try 3D printing a replacement. The originals are put on the wires...
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