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Assemblies may include halogen or incandescent test bulbs that should be replaced before installation.
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Hi, I'm Mike Green. I'm one of the owners of 1A Auto. I want to help you save time and money repairing and maintaining your vehicle. I'm going to use my 20+ years experience restoring and repairing cars and trucks like this to show you the correct way to 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.
For this video we're going to change the headlight on this Dodge Ram 1500, this is a 2004. This video covers both changing the head light if you've broken one or it's damaged or yellowed; also if you just want to change the bulbs. The tools you'll need are a 10 mm socket and ratchet with an extension as well as a small screwdriver might help you out for some things.
Obviously you want to open up the hood. If you're worried about scratching the paint on your truck just use a little painter's tape. Slide it; slide it right in there underneath. There's a clip here; some trucks the lights they have clips all the way up. These usually just have a little Phillip's head inserted into them. Once you pull that out then this clip comes out. Then I actually pull it out of the light, stick it back in and just stick the pin in there a little bit for safe keeping.
Now there's 10 mm or T-30 screws; I'm going to use a 10 mm socket right there, there, and then there's a third one right in there. We'll fast forward through moving those top two or I'm sorry those inner two. You might want to put a little bit of penetrating oil or lubricant on the back of them to make them a little easier. You put this in and you push your bumper cover down just a little bit. Get that in there and again if you're worried about the paint you push down on the bumper cover so that the tool doesn't come in contact with it. Generally the bolt doesn't come out with the wrench. Most likely the bolt won't come out with the wrench so we'll just drop down there onto the floor.
At this point there's one more lock right up in here. On the top of this side you can actually reach in and feel for it and unlock it. When you reach back in there what you want to reach for is these two little tabs. You'll feel back in there for those. Like I said on this side you can unlock those pretty easily, but on the driver's side you'll just have to pull it out.
That's a good little piece of information there, but really what you can do is grab on to the side of the light and pull it out like you'll see me do now. You grip onto it really firm and give it a good pull and it will come out. Then you'll want to push down on your bumper cover and bring the whole thing out. Actually my lock stayed in there. You can see this pulled out right here; so here I have a new light from 1A Auto. If this piece stays in your vehicle you can just take a little screwdriver and take it off of your light. Then just install your light like that.
Again on the passenger side I believe you can reach your headlight bulb if that's all you're looking to replace. You just want to pull that harness off. Here is your marker bulb, you pull it out and the bulb just pulls out and pushes back in. Your headlight, this ring turns and then your bulb can come out. Push it back in. Obviously if you're looking to replace a whole light the assembly comes out. Here's the new light from 1A Auto.
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Hi, I'm Mike from 1A Auto. I hope this how-to video helps you out, and next time you need parts for your vehicle, think of 1AAuto.com. Thanks.
In this video, we're going to show you headlight replacement as well as changing the bulbs. This is a 2008 Dodge Ram 1500, and the procedure for the lights are the same for 2006 to 2008 as well the 2009 2500 and 3500.
We're going to show you replacing the lights on this truck with the black bezel lights, we also sell the clear bezel lights. Items you'll need include new headlights from 1AAuto.com, a 10mm socket with a ratchet extension, and a small flat blade screwdriver.
Open up the door, pop the hood, then reach under, lift up, and then you'll see two screws right here. They're 10mm, you could also use a T30 Torx driver. We'll remove those.
At the front of the tire, behind on the backside of the light, there's a little plug. Pull that out and you can access another 10mm nut in there. Pull firmly out on the light and then hit it with the back of your hand to break the ball and socket free.
If you're just looking to replace your bulbs, turn this one counterclockwise. It comes out, and then you actually pull this red tab. Press down on this tab to disconnect, and then put your new bulb in, and then reinstall by pushing in and turning clockwise. Then this one just turns, it should turn counterclockwise, but I guess it's clockwise. It comes out. This is pulled straight out and back in.
For now, we're just going to disconnect here, pull this one out, and the headlight's out.
There's the old headlight out of the vehicle. It actually looks pretty good although it does have some fading and crazing at the top. Here's a new black bezel light from 1A Auto, it's going to look great in this truck.
Fit right in, reconnect our headlight, push the red safety tab, and then I need to disconnect my parking light. It's best to have a little flat blade screwdriver, press the tab down, pull, press the other tab, pull, disconnect and connect into your new light.
Make sure you line up this into there, this goes into the hole down there, and there's also a tab up here in the front that goes in. If you're clipped in here and your fender doesn't break, if it's still in good shape, it's okay to reuse it. I'll pull the new one off and set it aside, we'll pull the plastic back, just kind of look everything in, and push nice and firm. Good to have a flashlight handy, just load your nut right into the socket, put it in place, then start it, and tighten it up, then push your plug back in place. Then just install these two front screws, a little extra push to get it started. Take our plastic off and put the hood down.
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