Chevrolet GMC 14 Piece Tailgate Repair Kit TRQ BDA36073

First things you're gonna wanna do is make sure that your tailgate is down. Once you have it open and down, you're gonna see these three bolts right there. Remove those using a 13-millimeter socket. It's nice and tight. All right. Let's get these out of here. Wiggle this handle around, so it's nice and free. With this black bezel, the next thing you're gonna wanna have is one of these nice plastic trim tools. The reason why we're gonna use plastic is because we're gonna come in between the bed and the plastic shroud right here. Just go ahead and come right here. Push it. Do the same thing right there. Once you have the top broken free, just go ahead and lift this straight up and draw it away.

Go ahead and come in between here with a nice flathead screwdriver. Pull that clip down. Grab this rod, and slide it out. Do the same to the other side. Let's go ahead and get the handle out of here. Let's go ahead and get this handle in here. Weasel it in. There we are. Now, you're gonna grab your connecting rods here. Slide it in, and then lock it down. Slide it in. Bring this around. Lock it in. Give it a nice shake. Do the same to the other side.

So, now with this nice and loose, we can continue on to installing this. If you were to pay attention, on the backside, you're gonna see that you have a couple little pitons. And then, right here, you have some hooky-dos. When you go to install this, you're gonna put the bottom in first, so that the pitons go down into here. They'll latch in, and then just roll it in, and it'll latch. Just like this. In.

So, now from inside the bed, you can see the backside of the tailgate. We're just gonna kinda wiggle the handle around until we can see our bolt holes. Grab your bolts. Go ahead and start all three of them in before you tighten any of them down. Let's go ahead and snug them up. Let's give it a test. Perfect.

Okay, to start this job, let's just compare it, make sure we're dealing with the correct part. This looks great. The next thing we're gonna wanna do is remove our tail lamp. To do that, use a Phillips head screwdriver and remove both those mounting bolts. Grab the lens. Carefully pull it away. Grab some penetrant. Go ahead and spray this down.

Let's use our 15-millimeter wrench right back here to hold this nut and our T40 Torx bit to take this off. There we go. Go ahead and grab that. Slide it in. Take your nut. We're gonna go ahead and put this together but we're gonna leave it nice and loose. The reason for that is because I want it to be able to move around. The next thing we're gonna wanna do is close the tailgate. When the latch comes up, it's gonna bring this to exactly where it lines up perfectly, and then we'll just go ahead and try to snug this at that point so we know exactly where it needs to go. Close this. All right. So, that's latched in. That seems like its exactly where it needs to be. And snug this. Go ahead and snug it up.

Put our tail lamp back in here. Lined up. Start and bolt the screws. After you've done that, go ahead and snug them right up. Okay, let's test it. Perfect.

First thing you're going to want to do is make sure that your tailgate is down. Once you have it open and down, you're going to see these three bolts right there, remove those using a 13-millimeter socket. Nice and tight. Let's get these out of here. Wiggle this handle around so it's nice and free. With this black bezel, the next thing you're going to want to have is one of these nice plastic trim tools. The reason why we're going to use plastic is because we're going to come in between the bed and the plastic shroud right here. Just go ahead and come right here, push it, do the same thing right there. Once you have the top broken free, just go ahead and lift this straight up and draw it away.

We can continue on to installing this. If you were to pay attention on the backside, you're going to see that you have a couple little pitons, and then right here you have some hooky-dos. When you go to install this, you're going to put the bottom in first so that the pitons go down into here, they'll latch in and then just roll it in and it'll latch. So with this, in. So now from inside the bed, you can see the backside of the tailgate, we're just gonna kind of wiggle the handle around until we can see our bolt holes. Grab your bolts, go ahead and start all three of them in before you tighten any of them down. Let's go ahead and snug them up.

First things you're gonna wanna do is make sure that your tailgate is down. Once you have it open and down, you're going to see these 3 bolts right there, remove those using a 13-millimeter socket. It's nice and tight. Let's get these out of here. Wiggle this handle around so it's nice and free. With this black bezel, the next thing you're gonna wanna have is one of these nice plastic trim tools. The reason why we're go use plastic is because we're gonna come in between the bed and the plastic shroud right here. Just go ahead and come right here, push it. Do the same thing right there. Once you have the top broken free, just go ahead and lift this straight up and draw it away. Go ahead and come in between here with a nice flathead screwdriver, pull that clip down, grab this rod and slide it out. Do the same to the other side. Let's just get this handle out of here. It's a good idea to take it out. The next thing you'd wanna do is grab onto these, give them a little squeeze, and take down your tailgate.

The next thing we wanna do is put a nice piece of wood with something soft to protect your tailgate, something that's gonna take a little bit of slack off of this. Now, I'm gonna grab onto this, pull it away, lift up, leave this hanging. Now, we're gonna remove our mounting bolts for the latch. Go ahead and grab this assembly. It's gonna have the rod coming with it. You can either disconnect it now and leave the rod in there or just pull the whole thing out. I'm gonna disconnect it as it is now, and I'll leave the rod right where it is. And there's the latch. It's a great idea to make sure you've got the right part. If it looks as though maybe your parts are opposite from what you're trying to replace, more than likely you have the wrong side of the vehicle. With that said, once you know you have the right one, let's go ahead and continue with the install. Just gonna take this. It's gonna line up pretty much just like that. So, go ahead and grab your rod, slide it up and through the hole just like that. And then make sure you take this little twist, lock it in. Make sure the rod can not slip out of there. It's very important.

Now, when you're putting in your latch, you wanna make sure you grab that rod and put it right up into this area. If you don't and it's sitting down under here, you're gonna have to go ahead and take that latch right back out of there and make sure you fix it. So, just do it now. Put it right up there and then go ahead and bolt in your latch. Now, we're just gonna take this, line it up with where it needs to go. It came with a nice new set of bolts, so we're gonna make sure we use those. You're gonna notice that there are two different bolts, though. The one that has the little shanked area is gonna go down here and it's gonna be the one that has the cable attached to it. Let's go ahead and snug these up. It's important to make sure after you've tightened that, this can still spin. That's what the shanked area on the bolt is for. So, now let's lift up on the tailgate just a teeny bit, line this up, lock it in. Now, if you're gonna be doing the other side, now is a perfect time to do that as well. Let's leave our three bolts right here where we can reach them. Now, we're gonna close the tailgate. Let's go ahead and get this handle in here. Weasel it in. There we are. Now, you're gonna grab your connecting rods here, slide it in, and then lock it down. Slide it in, bring this around, lock it in, give it a nice shake. Do the same to the other side.

So, now with this nice and loose, we can continue on to installing this. If you were to pay attention on the backside, you're gonna see that you have a couple little pitons. And then right here, you have some hookey-dos. When you go to install this, you're gonna put the bottom in first so that the pitons go down into here. They'll latch in and then just roll it in and it'll latch. Just like this. So, now from inside of the bed, you can see the backside of the tailgate, we're just gonna wiggle the handle around until we can see our bolt holes. Grab your bolts, go ahead and start all three of them in before you tighten any of them down. Let's go ahead and snug them up. Let's give it a test. Perfect.