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04-29-2011, 08:26 PM
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Sluggish electric door lock
The driver's side electric door lock on my '02 Ranger started acting sluggish.
That is, it moves the manual lock peg up/down but doesn't move it as far as it should. The manual lock peg moves freely up/down when I try it. I figure that if the actuator was bad, it wouldn't move at all. This one clicks but doesn't seem to have enough power to lock/unlock the lock. Anyone have any experience with these locks/actuators? 
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04-29-2011, 08:38 PM
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Re: Sluggish electric door lock
Classic bad actuator, we call them sluggish actuators- by a new aftermarket one online for less than $20
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04-29-2011, 09:00 PM
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Re: Sluggish electric door lock
Sorry, I was wrong a high power generic actuator is $8.95 with free shipping on Ebay. Search for door lock actuator
Makes you wonder why anyone would pay the Stealership $200
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Automotive A/C Engineer with: '99 IH 4700 Toy Hauler (2) '95 GEO Prizms both maroon '99 GMC Yukon '95 Chev 3500, 454 Dually Crew Cab- 145k miles- Wife's Camel trailer puller. '94 Astro- 370k miles '94 Firebird Formula- 5.7L 180k miles- gone- '92 Chevy Lumina Van 3.8L 264k '86 GMC S-15 - 2.8L 154k '87 Buick Park Ave . 187k '86 Buick Park Ave 3.8L 199k miles- gone '77 Chevy Vega- 2.5L 175k miles gone but not forgotten '68 Camaro 396 4 spd RS/SS -72k miles-
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04-29-2011, 09:06 PM
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Re: Sluggish electric door lock
Took the actuator out. Cracked it open and found a dinky little 1 " cube motor driving 4 gears to actuate a lever that unlocks the door. The motor is one like you'd find in a kid's model car....not a slot racer but a plastic model car.
I'm surprised it has lasted this long!!!! If I had a source for this "science fair" motor, I could fix this actuator....but I found a new actuator online for $13. Last edited by timd; 05-03-2011 at 08:20 PM.
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