Rear hatch gate defeat switch

[rwinch]

Has anybody put a rear hatch gate defeat switch into a '98? When I am tailgating or at the beach, etc., I like to have the hatch open, but ALL the lights come on and I have drained the battery a couple of times. I now just pull fuse #14 out from the interior fuse box, but that is just a pain. I would like to install a switch that defeats the hatch door/hatch window switches (just one I hope) so that I can just leave it open.

I believe Ford figured this out in the later models?????

 

[Guest]

I don't know and any exact switch for this but it would be simple to do all the same. Just buy any 2 way switch and wire it into the rear hatch switch and just mount it. More or less just cut the power to it. Just a thought

 

[rwinch]

Thanks, but it actually has to go along the rear pillars, and not cut power, but mimic the closed status of both the rear window switch and door latch. What I have to do is figure out which side has the harness, the color code of the wires, and then put in a switch to simulate the door switches. I had hoped someone else had done it so I won't have to figure it out by myself (bein' lazy!!)