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Hi, I'm Mike Green. I'm one of the owners of 1AAuto. I want to help you save time and money repairing and maintaining your vehicle. I'm going to use my 20 plus years experience, restoring and repairing cars and trucks like this to show you to correctly install parts from 1AAuto.com. The right parts installed correctly, that's going to save you time and money. Thank you and enjoy the video.
In this video, we're going to show you window regulator and door lock actuator replacement. It's pretty easy, actually. The toughest part is actually just getting to them, getting the panels off to access the regulator and lock actuator. Tools you'll need are seven-millimeter socket and ratchet or a Philips screwdriver, flat blade screwdriver, a putty knife or door panel clip tool, a ten-millimeter socket and ratchet or wrench, and a drill with a three-eighth inch drill bit.
This process is a multi-step process. First process is getting the interior door panels off. I'm fast-forwarding through it. We do have a video on this In regular motion, but you can either search for it or I've actually related it to this video. Once you get the door panel off, which is pretty simple, some screws, and couple of plates. Then I'm doing the pins, then you're on to your interior door panel. In the interest of the YouTube ten minutes, I'm just kind of fast-forwarding through this part.
We get in there, we're actually going to remove this whole plate. You're going to start by removing a series of seven-millimeter screws. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine I believe there's nine or ten seven-millimeter screws and there's one ten-millimeter screw up there. So, I'm going to pull those out. Now, what you want is you want your window all the way down, kind of pull out. Once you've pulled out, then you can see back in here. Just pull down this here and disconnect that from your door lock rod. Just pull that up and out. Then here's your lock rod, just pull that out. Then pull those rods from their guide clips here. You want to disconnect your lock actuator here. See, there are a bunch of little clips here with their wire harnesses using a regular pair of pliers, reaching back, and squeeze and connect the pins on the back side. I'm forcing them out. Take these harnesses, pull them back through here, and then disconnect the power window motor back here and your speaker. Then you're going to push all these wire harnesses back through the panel here.
So, now with the harnesses back in there, as you can see, I just kind of taped up those rods because they tend to get in the way. You can see down in there it's going to be hard to you can see that the rollers are in the track down at the bottom there, and that's what you do. You're sliding it forward. Get that roller out of the track, and once the front one comes out, then you take the whole thing, make sure you're not caught up on anything and wires like to get in the way a little bit take the whole plate, rotate it up like that, and then the whole thing comes out. It'll going to be a now you have access to your door lock actuator and your window regulator.
Most of the tough work is done. Now, the window regulator and door lock actuator are just riveted to this panel. What you're going to do is roll up those rivets, and since these weren't bad, they didn't remove them and replace them but you can see here, you just use a drill, press it in the center of the rivet, drill into it, basically until the rivet head pops off, and then you use a screwdriver or a putty knife or something to separate the parts. Then you bolt in the new ones. All of the parts of 1aauto will be the exact duplicates of the original parts, so they will install no problem. Then so, you bolt them in and then you ride and put them back together.
Before I put this together, I'm just going to take some white grease chance to remove that tracks on take my panel. Now this wheel, I would say, needs to into that track then followed by that wheel. I'm going to tip it, rotate it up, get it in there so that the wheel goes in. Now, before I even put that next wheel in, I reach back here and then let's take these long harnesses I'm going to put them through the hole, reach in here, and then I'm going to hook up my speaker and then I'm going to hook up my power window motor. I'm also going to take those harnesses, keep pulling these through. I'm going to put my big ones through as well, and then put this pin in here. Now, I'm going to get back to that wheel, get it right down in place, and push it in. That's in.
You want to place your and then reconnect my lock rod here, all there, push that in .Then I'm going to take this tape off, pull this up then connect my door rod there, put this snap that into place and just push that right through, and then lock that one in place. Now, I'm going to reconnect and reroute this whole harness. Pull this big pin right here. Actually, before I pin them together, what I'm going to do is reroute everything. This went down in here, came out there, this went here, landed there, went around, and then hook up to my door lock actuator.
So, now everything's hooked up. What I'm going to do is I'm actually going to run a test here. The door lock's working, and my window's working. Get these harnesses all pinned on the right spot in the interest of making the YouTube ten minutes, I'm just fast-forwarding, pinning the harness on there. Then you need to make sure you put in all the bolts, and there are ten seven-millimeter bolts, and a ten-millimeter bolt. Then you're putting on the door panel. Again, to install the door panel, we do have this video in regular time and it's related to this video. So, we hope this helps you out. We can get your door lock actuator fixed or your window regulator or both, and maybe those windows and locks won't give you quite so much frustration.
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