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Mustang5L5 said:

Got myself a 92-93 hatch latch.

Need to get a wiring harness connector somewhere now because they are different of course



The 92-93 unit



And 198x to early 91

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Mustang5L5 said:

It's a more secure latch than the earlier ones.

The early ones have two jaws that close around the striker with the bushing. There's a little bit of wiggle from the jaws so you get a tiny bit of hatch movement.

The newer ones uses single jaw that kinda latches around the new style striker which lacks the bushing. It's a much more secure connection with no movement. I always noticed that my buddies and their 92-93 cars had much more rigid hatches. The older cars seem to have more play.


This is something that's more of a "nice to have" vs any sort of critical mod. If you happen to stumble across a 93 in a junkyard, or part out one, i would keep the latch and install it. But only crazy mofo's like myself go out of the way to upgrade a latch


But that's what I do. The factory chose to upgrade it, so I want the best of what the factory had to offer.

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Mustang5L5 said:

Unknown. I actually have the wiring harness in the mail, so I will find out soon.

The hatch popper feature is a simple plug change. You can snip the plug end off the 93 harness and splice it onto your harness and that's it. Hatch will still pop open. You'll need to pull out the 93 harness and fish your original harness in.

The interior light switch is a different story. You'll see what i mean when you look at your car, but right next to the striker in the hatch is the interior light switch on the 1987-1991 cars. When the hatch closes a little metal pad pushes the plunger down and your interior light stays off. On the 92-93 setup, this plunger is gone. The latch itself has a second plug that does this now. That means the 92-93 harness has two more wires than the 87-91 harness since the interior switch is now in the hatch on the latch itself.

Simple setup is to just remove the plunger and unplug it. Leaving the wires disconnected keeps the light off. The interior light won't come on when you open the hatch, but how many of us are loading the hatch up at night?

I'd like to keep it functional, so i'm going to play around with the harnesses a bit and see if i can make it work. I'd need to compare the 87-91 harnesses and 92-93 harnesses to really tell where the difference is and make it work.


BTW. You'll need to buy the 91-92 striker for that latch



You could also just swap in your existing wiring and older latch, and throw that setup on ebay for $150+

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