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In this video, we're going to show you how to replace a front window regulator on this 2011 Chevy Silverado. We're going to show you the driver's side but the passenger's side is basically the same procedure. And this is the same for this style truck from 2007 to 2013. And it doesn't matter if you have a regular, extended, or crew cab, the front door is all the same procedure. Tools you need are a new regulator from 1AAuto.com, flat blade screwdriver, 10mm socket and ratchet, and some needle nose pliers.
Using a flat blade screwdriver, remove the trim that's on the door pole. Just by prying at the bottom and pulling and releasing the clips. There's a little panel right in behind the door handle remove that as well. Then remove the triangle up at the top near the mirror. Once those are removed, you will see there are three 10mm bolts here. We'll just fast-forward as he removes those. You just want to remove this little panel under this handle right here. Just pry that out with your flat blade.
Now you just want to remove these two 10mm bolts right here. You want to pry up that switch panel and disconnect these harnesses. Just push in the tab on the top and pull back on them. For this lead, there's a tab on the back of it. You just want to pry out that tab and then the clip will actually pull up and out. Now pull your lock up, and there is a little panel right here just a little clip. You want to pry that out with the flat blade screwdriver. Once you pry that out, you can just lift that right up and off.
Now you can start prying off the door panel. Just reach behind it and give it a sharp pull to release those clips. You want to do this all the way around the panel. Once you do that, you can just lift it off, and then you want to tilt it. Now, if you go in behind the door panel here, you will see this door handle cable down here.
Using needle-nose pliers, just push the clip inward, and you can pull that up and out. Carefully remove your water shield. We did speed the video up, you want to remove it nice and slow. Do your best not to rip or tear it. Now, you want to remove these three 10mm bolts right here. Just pull that bracket away. There are two 10mm bolts that hold the regulator to the window, there and there. If your window motor breaks, or your regulator breaks with the window in the full up position, that's where these bolts will be located. A lot of times the cables on these regulators break, and in that case you can just kind of move the window up and down by hand.
You can either move it to this position, or a little lower, to get to these two bolts. You can see here, we just used some blue painter's tape to tape the window up, so it doesn't move as we take the window regulator out. To remove the regulator, there are two bolts at the top. Just loosen those. Another bolt near the window motor, and then two nuts at the bottom. All those are 10mms. We'll just fast-forward as we do that. Use a flat blade screwdriver to help disconnect the harness.
Now you just want to push back on the window motor, and on your regulator. Then lift those bolts that you loosened up and out. Now work the regulator out of your door. A lot of times the regulator is broken, so make sure no pieces of the regulator stay behind. Now, we're installing our old window regulator motor again, so the bolts that we left in there are still there.
On your new one, you're going to want to move those bolts from your old one to your new one. So that when you feed this back up into your door, you can hang it just like that. As both of those are hung up, you want to make sure that the studs on the bottom come through. And just replace those nuts. You want to just tighten everything up. You can either lower the window into the clamps, or you can reconnect your window motor. You'll need to do that, obviously.
Then connect it into your switch. Turn your key on, and raise the regulator up into the window. Then fast-forward here as we tighten up those two bolts that clamp the regulator to the window. Now you can remove the tape from the window. Replace this bracket, just line it up. And replace the three 10mm bolts. You can put your water shield back. Just make sure that the wire harnesses and the door cable are pulled through. Now, you want to make sure that these door panel clips line up in those holes, and that these hooks line up in these slots.
Now you want to take that door handle cable, put it back into its clip. Pull back on it, and feed it into that little spot there. Run all your harnesses up through where the door switch panel goes. And you want to make sure that this lock tab goes up through the door panel. You want to line the door panel up on the windowsill.
Then once it's lined up, you can push in the clips all the way around. Take your lock, slide it back onto the tab there, and reapply that little square clip. And we'll fast-forward as he replaces the two 10mm bolts under this handle here. As well as the 10mm bolt behind the door handle. Now reconnect the harnesses to the door switch panel. And push it down into place. And we'll continue to fast forward as he replaces that pole handle, and the two 10mm bolts to secure it. Now you just want to replace those four trim panels.
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We're going to actually hit our dome lamp override, which just turns off the dome lamp. Then we're going to start up here at the corner. You can use a plastic trim tool, but I can just get my fingers behind here, pull straight out and off. You want to avoid pulling it this way, because as you can see this broke off in there. It still has two clips left though, so it'll secure fine. Then we're going to remove three other trim panels. And behind the door handle, put a small screwdriver in here, pry the bottom out and bring that out. You can see a 10mm bolt there. Then behind the door pull, use a small screwdriver to pull that out. Two more 10mm bolts are in there. Then your door lock, you want to kind of pull up a little bit and pry with a small flat blade screwdriver. That comes up and off. Make sure you retrieve that little piece if it flies out. If this comes out, just retrieve it and don't put it all the way in. Just put it like that. Additionally, you need to pull up your trim panel, plastic trim tool available on 1AAuto.com and put it in the back and pull up.
Okay, and then work it in at the front as well. You can see there's two clips at the front and rear. If you don't have a trim tool, but you have strong fingernails, you can get it out, and then just pull straight up on front as well. Then there's four harnesses to disconnect and you might have more. If you have more options, just press the tabs and pull out. Use a 10mm socket with ratchet and extension, and remove those three 10 mm bolts. These ones may stay in there after you get them loosened up. And in that case, they'll just fall down, and you can retrieve them after you take the door panel off.
Now, there's a series of clips around the edge. I usually start at the top, pull straight out, and just work your hand down. Pull firmly. Then the bottom and the side, and then door panel can come up and off. And then you'll want to disconnect your door handle, which is a matter of pressing on the tabs. There's two tabs, so press one, pull through, rotate around. Press on the other one. That allows you to move that back, bring it up and around, and your door panel comes off.
You have to put the window up to access the bolts on the back side, so we're going to take our window master switch and we're going to plug it back in so we can put the window up. These plugs, here, are coated, meaning they have little slots that line up. So they'll only plug in one way, because we've only got three plugs, but there's more than three spots. This has some ears, here, that match up with this connector here. The same thing for this one. It only matches with these, so if you try to put in the wrong ones, it won't fit. You've got to find the right one and it'll slide in. I'm going to just turn the ignition on, put the window up, then turn the ignition off. You can unplug this switch again so it's not dangling in any way. Just put it aside so it doesn't get broken.
Now to get to the bolts that are on the back side, here, you have to pull this water barrier off. It's got some sticky strip caulk stuff. Just peel it off and then just go back on there. If it's really sticky, you can take a razor blade and just cut it as you're pulling away. Just gently work it off so you don't rip this foam. For the most part, you can reuse this. It will still be sticky, but you may want to get some new strip caulk to put on here when we replace it. So just be aware of that when you take it off.
All right, we're going to start changing the window regulator by supporting the glass, because we're going to unbolt the glass from the window regulator and you don't want it to slide down and break. We're just going to take some masking tape. We're going to start by loosening the 10 millimeter bolts that are holding the glass on this side and the one over here on this side. All right, we're using a 10 millimeter socket. We're going to loosen these up. These don't have to come all the way out. You just want to loosen them up enough that the glass will be free. We're going to start on the window regulator bolts. There's two up top here, and there's one down here holding the motor in. Then two nuts on the bottom. These you loosen. They don't have to come all the way out. These are going to slide up and out of the hole there.
All right, before we get too far, I'm going to unplug the window motor. Squeeze this gray connector in here. Now the regulator is loose. Now push it through over here. We're going to slide it up, slide it down. Slide this up. If it's easier, you can take the bolt out. Then you just maneuver the regulator out of the door cavity.
There's nothing wrong with our old one, so we're just going to put it back in. Just a matter of snaking in there. Just want that one side close. Now start with the motor side. You want to make sure you get it around the glass where there's little mounts. We've got the bottom stud in there now, and we put the top bolt back in. I had to take it out to help with fishing it in there. Now we'll tighten this down.
We'll put the bolt back in at the motor. Put our two bottom nuts on these studs. Don't forget to plug the motor back in, or else it's not going to work. That's the window regulator. All right. Finally, we're going to tighten the clamps back on the window. Now that your window is secured again, you can peel off your masking tape.
All right, we're just going to make sure the window goes up and down before we close this back up. Looks good. All right, now we're ready to install this back on the door panel. We're going to feed our wires through for the door switches and mirror. You can see the little channel that it was in, and you just push it down in.
First, you want to just make sure that your bolts come out and you retrieve them. There are two tabs here that just go right in to the door and rest conveniently so that's supported. Then you can put this up. Make sure you have four harnesses that poke up through the opening, here, or more if you have more options on your truck. Then reconnect your cable, slide the ball in, pull out, and push.
Make sure all your harnesses are up and through. Now that your cable's on, this ridge actually needs to go down into this channel here. So, hit the panel up into place. A little higher, you see it slides down. It should go down even. This should come right up through your lock rod. Then, if you look back in, you can actually see this pin here lines right up, and you can just go right around and lock the pins into place. So we want to be able to take these bolts and put them in. They’re a little bit loose, though. So, if you just take a piece of painter's tape, put it on the head of the bolt, stuff your socket on there, and it stays much better. You can guide it right in and start it out. If the painter's tape does stay behind, it's not a big deal, but tighten it by hand first to make sure it's in, and then tighten it up.
This one is pretty easy to get into place. Put the lockdown on. Snap that in place. This one, the round side goes underneath. Put this into place. Switch panel, these all only go in one way. So, like this one won't plug into there. It won't plug into there. It'll only plug into there. Then this one will only plug into there. This one can go in place. The last one, again, it has three tabs. One of ours is broken. Make sure it goes right straight in, kind of look in behind.
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