96 Silverado power windows installation

I've looked thru and found many people asking about aftermarket power windows, never factory, atleast from what I can see.
I pulled a set of doors from a similar year/color GMT400 from pick n pull, I was wondering how hard it would be just to simply wire the doors up? My 96 doesn't have power windows, yet has every other option available. It's a weird custom order truck. I miss the power features of my 93 Sierra, which unfortunately got wrote off from parking lot damage. Any help would be appreciated.
I know how to do wires. I do stereo installs and house wiring for a living

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Welcome to the forum Katey. There are a few writeups on here about using factory power window doors . Maybe with luck one of the authors will speak up. The older threads can be hard to find. My dimming memory says that there may be some extra harness you can get from a junker to help with this . I know some have done it. Good luck and be sure and write up how it turns out.

Welcome.
Look behind the kick panels.
The wiring may already be there.
GM was pretty good about using generic GMT400 wiring harnesses across the various models. They just utilized the appropriate plug-ins for whatever was on the build sheet.
Most do have the harness. Some don't.

You did just un-plugged the door's harness when you removed the doors, didn't you?

Both fuse boxes would need to have the appropriate positions filled. They should already be hot on one side.

If the harness isn't behind the kick panels...
The factory harness is the first thing to be installed on the line, followed by the dash & all those related components.
First in = last out. Just so you know if you do have to pull one.
IIRC, (& I may be mistaken) only the W/T trucks had a stripped-down basic standard harness.

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Lol!

Howdy! I don't have anything to add to what's been said except: Welcome -and- my wife spells her name the same way which seems rare.

My 99 3500 was not prewired. But wiring in power windows is easy.

Since you have the doors. You can move the guts to your doors or install those. But there is a standalone harness that runs behind the dash that hooks into the door harness and goes to the junction block

If you can get that harness it is a simple plug and play. Ill also see if I have pics from when I did mine

When I did mine, MOST of it was plug and play except two things: the dome lights and speakers. You will need to move some connector pins around. But first you need the cross-body harness. The fuse block is already pinned and likely already has fuses/circuit breakers for everything in place. But yeah as far as the doors go, all you need is the internal metal plate with everything on it. You can keep your existing doors.

Thank you all for the replies, I have the doors on the truck, and yes i unplugged the harness, a speaker wire clip. And from pick n pull I yoinked the whole junction block. I started messing with it, but my injury got in the way, and I lost motivation. I'll have to post some pics later when it is fully done of before and after. My truck is undrivable atm due to fuel pump, so I have to sort that out before i rewire the doors.

I knew if I left it long enough unintentionally, and thanks for the welcomes!

mr_josh said:

Howdy! I don't have anything to add to what's been said except: Welcome -and- my wife spells her name the same way which seems rare.

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I know, there were 4 Katies in my school before i graduated. I was the only different spelling lol