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Brought to you by 1AAuto.com; Your source for quality replacement parts and the best service on the internet. 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 am going to use my 20 plus 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 is going to save you time and money. Thank you and enjoy the video.
In this video, we are going to show you headlight replacement on this 1997 Expedition. It's the same as any 97 to 02 Expedition or 97 to 03 F150. The only tool you will need is probably a T20 Torx driver and actually you might even be able to do it without any tools at all.
Okay, so maybe you have been in an accident and you need to replace your headlights or maybe you are just looking to update the front end of your truck. If you watch the driver's side or as you look at the right hand headlight, you see it gets nice little brighter. That is what nice new headlights will do for you and then as you can see, now the front end of this truck we took about 100 thousand miles off the truck just with a new set of lights and it is easy to do. So to remove a headlight, you have two tabs here on the top. What you want to do is pull up some okay and push back and then go up further. Same thing on this one, up, push back, and up further. Okay and now you can generally get the light out. You may decide that you want to make it easier use a T20 Torques driver and remove your parking lights.
Okay, remove your parking lights and you do that by removing that bolt and pull your parking light out. This allows you to get a little more room here to work with the headlights. Sometimes they will get caught on the grill. Just pull your headlights forward and there is a connector here and you can just use your fingers and push that connector off. Okay and if you are just looking to change your light bulb, especially on this drivers side you cannot get to it from the back, so you just twist that ring and remove the bulb and change it. Put it back together, lock the ring on. Here is our new light from 1AAuto and here is the old light from the truck and you can see that the new light from 1AAuto is all the same. All the mounts are the same, the light is going to go in the same and everything. The new light is obviously just clearer and brighter. If you have a broken headlight obviously this is going to be the fix for you and also if you are looking to refresh the front end of your truck, the new headlight will help.
A couple tips before you install them, just kind of eyeball all three of these adjusters and kind of get them into the same distance. With the distance that you want to look at is between the middle of this bulb to this groove here and you just want to make sure that distance is basically all the same. That will be a good preliminary aiming for your headlights. Another tip is just make sure all your stars I guess are this way. Okay, the grooves that go in and they have to go between those stars, so you want to make sure they are all like that with the point of the stars pointing diagonally. Okay to install you can see this has a little groove in it. They all go into these slots here. So what you want to do first is obviously connect your headlights okay and then you really want to look at the inside one.
Okay, what you are looking to do here is to make sure that this clip gets into this groove here. Okay so you can kind of see inside there, hopefully you can still see that. Now that you have the inside one, okay so now you can focus on these outer ones and you can see how these adjusters kind of go in those grooves. This is where not having that parking light in there really helps because you can get your fingers right in there and move stuff around. Now you got them right in there. Okay and now looking down you can see that all of my studs are through, even the little one. That black plastic is right through. You can push your tabs down. Okay, your light is in nice and secure and you can re-install side marker light. Make sure your lower flood is in the light and the upper. Push it back in and your T20 nut and bolt. Then turn on the lights, do a test to make sure everything is working well.
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Hi, I'm Mike from 1A Auto. We've been selling auto parts for over 30 years. We're dedicated to delivering quality auto parts, expert customer service, fast and free shipping, all backed by our 100% satisfaction guarantee. Visit us at 1AAuto.com, your trusted source for quality auto parts.
In this video, we're going to be working with 1998 Ford F150. We're going to show you how to remove and replace your vehicle's front grille. If you like this video please click subscribe. We have a ton more information on this and many other vehicles. If you need this part for your truck you can follow the link down in the description over to 1AAuto.com. Here are the items you'll need for this repair.
To remove your headlight, lift up on the tabs behind it. Now, sometimes you've got to wiggle them a little to get them to stay in place. Work your headlight out. You may be able to reach in from the back and push on it. You've got to make sure these tabs are fully disengaged.
Over time they wear out and they tend to get a little stuck. Once that's out you can unclip your headlight harness and remove it. On the inside edge of the fender is a seven millimeter screw. You'll want to remove that with a seven millimeter socket, ratchet, and extension. Once that's out, you can slide the turn signal assembly out of the grille, undo the tabs, and remove it from the vehicle.
Repeat these steps on the opposite side. Remove the tool for your spare tire crane. There are six of these plastic screw-type retainers. This one actually belongs in the back on the radiator. There are two of these. We have a few missing here, but you'll remove all of these with a Phillips-head screwdriver. Then on the back are these pop clips. Again, that one on the front actually belongs over on this side, so you remove the two of them with a trim tool or a flat-blade screwdriver by popping up on the center piece. As for the rest, with little to no pressure, you want to hold the base and spin the Phillips-head screw out. At which point, you can pop the base out of its retainer. Now simply lift up and remove this cover.
There are 10 Phillips-head screws securing the grille in. Two here, behind the turn signal, six along the top, and two more behind the other turn signal. Go ahead and remove all of these with a Phillips-head screwdriver. Under each fender, there are two plastic clips securing this wind dam.
We'll need to pop those off with a trim tool or a pair of pliers, and we'll have to get the two on the opposite side as well. Now, normally you'd need to grab the bottom of the grille and give it a good yank toward you. However, the reason you need to do that is because of a pair of clips that are broken on our grille, so we just need to bend up the plastic wind dam to get that past the bumper and we can remove our grille from the vehicle.
We'll need to pop the air dams off of both sides of the bottom of the grille. Do this by just popping the clips out with a trim tool or a screwdriver.
Reinstall the air dam onto the bottom of your new grille. The angle with the cut 45 here is going to go to the outside and there will be two clips hanging out past that. Ours is missing one, but you can see the opening there. The other four will go in and press into the bottom of your grille. We'll do the same thing on the opposite side. Our new grille comes with a new set of the lower grille clips.
We have a nice, new badge from 1A Auto. It comes with the adhesive already on the back, so what we're going to do is just line it up with the tabs on our new grille, press it on there, and it'll look just like the original piece.
Line up your grille. You have to bend that plastic air dam over to get it into place. We'll do that on both sides. Once the grille is tucked under you want to line up those little metal clips we installed on the bottom and press them into the cutout in the header panel.
Now our new grille is on the truck and you can see it looks just like our original did. We do have a different center grille. There are a few different options to choose from on these trucks. These grilles came in a few different styles. This is a little different than our original one, but the grille itself and all the chrome fits exactly the same way. These are also available in black and paint to match. You can see we have the same alignment tabs. All of the same 10 screw locations on it. We installed a nice, new OEM Ford badge on the front of our grille to make sure that it really looks just like our original piece. It brightens up the look of the front of your vehicle. It went on direct fit just like our original equipment did and really fixed up the front of our truck nice.
Reinstall all 10 of your Phillips-head screws. There are two in each side behind where the factory turn signal location is. Don't forget to reinstall the two plastic push pins on the lower air dam on both sides. We'll then do the six screws along the top.
Reinstall your upper grille cover. You've got to kind of hook it under the handle for the hood latch lock. Now, these clips tend to get a little soft after they've been on and off a few times, so usually you can just pop the bottom in and push the Phillips-head screw down without actually needing to thread it. You should have six of those in the front of the truck. Ours is missing some. You want to just kind of spread them out if you're missing a few or you can replace them. You have your two push pins that connected to the back of the radiator shroud. Just place them in and pop the heads down.
Reconnect the connector on your turn signal. I just kept that 7-millimeter screw there for safekeeping. Line it up and slide it back into place. Reinstall the 7-millimeter screw at the top with your socket and ratchet.
These little plastic ears on the back of your headlight are not only what secure it in, but they're also how you go about adjusting it. There's a long, skinny ratcheting wrench that gets onto the heads of these. Once the plastic slides into its retainers here in the header panel, then you line it up into the opening on that tab, and then push the tab down and it locks them into place.
When you pull up, that's what frees them up and that's how we got it out. To reinstall, reconnect the headlight connector, and then you just have to watch these line up into their slots in the header panel. Get the small ends through the openings. Work the ears until it seats in fully. Lock the tabs down into place.
Your adjustments will then be made, if necessary, on the heads of those bolts with the appropriate tool through the openings. Repeat these steps on the opposite side. After reinstalling your upper grille cover don't forget to lock the spare tire crane tool back into place. Close your hood and you're good to go.
Thanks for watching. Visit us at 1AAuto.com for quality auto parts, fast and free shipping, and the best customer service in the industry.
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Brought to you by 1AAuto.com, your source for quality replacement parts and the best service on the Internet.
Hi, I'm Mike Green. I'm one of the owners of 1A Auto. I want to help you save time and money repairing or maintaining your vehicle. I'm going to use my 20-plus 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.
In this video, we're going to show you how to replace the side marker on this 1997 Expedition, same as any '97 to '02 Expedition and also '97 to '03 F150. The only tool you'll need is a T20 Torx driver or actually a 8 millimeter or 9 millimeter socket and ratchet would work too. To replace either the light bulb or to replace the side marker light, you'll need a T20 Torx driver and you remove this bolt right here. Once that bolt is removed then you can just pull it out and then disconnect your harness and you could service the bulb just by twisting and taking it out.
So here's our original. Here is the one then the one from 1A Auto, they're all the same. We can remove the bulb there and put it in to one in the 1A Auto light. So, maybe, you just want to freshen up your lights, put on the nicer, clearer ones, or maybe you got on a little accident and this one is broken. The 1A Auto one is going in nice and easy for you. Connect the harness. You have a groove here, and there's a slot, here that goes into and then a slot here and a groove here that it goes into, so feed the wire back in, make sure your lower part is in that and the slot's in the groove and then feed it back in. Now your pins have to go back and into the fender. Now, you take your T20 screw again and put it in and you're all set.
We hope this video helps you out. Brought to you by www.1AAuto.com, your source for quality replacement parts and the best service on the Internet. Please feel free to call us toll-free, 888-844-3393. We're the company that's here for you on the Internet and in person.
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Hi, I'm Mike from 1AAuto. We've been selling auto parts for over 30 years! We're dedicated to delivering quality auto parts, expert customer service, and fast and free shipping, all backed by our 100% satisfaction guarantee. So visit us at 1AAuto.com, your trusted source for quality auto parts.
In this video, we're going to be working with our 1998 Ford F-150. We're going to show you how to remove and replace your vehicle's headlamp assembly.
If you like this video, please click subscribe. We have a ton more information on this and many other vehicles. If you need parts for your truck, you can follow the link down in the description over to 1AAuto.com.
Here are the items you'll need for this repair: 7mm socket, ratchet, flat head screwdriver
To remove your headlight, lift up on the tabs behind it. Now, sometimes you've got to wiggle them a little to get them to stay in place. Work your headlight out. You may be able to reach in from the back and push on it. You've got to make sure these tabs are fully disengaged.
Over time they wear out and they tend to get a little stuck. Once that's out you can unclip your headlight harness and remove it. On the inside edge of the fender is a seven millimeter screw. You'll want to remove that with a seven millimeter socket, ratchet, and extension. Once that's out, you can slide the turn signal assembly out of the grille, undo the tabs, and remove it from the vehicle.
Here we have the old aftermarket headlights that we removed from our vehicle and our new parts from 1AAuto.com. As you can see, there are some clear aesthetic difference between the two headlights; these being a black housing with a smoked lens, this being a clear lens with a chrome housing in it. Otherwise, the actual function and bracketry of the headlights are exactly the same. Flip them over, you'll see we have the same bulb with the same collar and we have the same mounting tabs and adjusting screws here. These are actually both what secures the headlight as well as what moves the headlights so you can align and aim them as you like.
Some obvious differences here. We have a smoked lens, which is going to hurt our light output. We have a black chrome type housing on the inside, which is going to work against the reflective properties you want to have inside the housing of a headlight because it's actually supposed to pick up the light going back and send that out forward as well. This isn't going do that nearly as well as the clear lens with the chrome housing is going to output light. So, not only are these headlights brighter and safer, but they're also just like our original equipment.
If your old headlights are bad from a fogged, cracked, or moisture-filled lens, or you're replacing an aftermarket part, these new parts from 1A Auto are going in direct-fit, just like your original equipment. Get your headlights nice and bright, so you can see safe and fix you up right.
Plug in your headlight bulb and line up the pins with their slots so the tabs here will sit in between these two slots and go through that hole. You can see the lock plate and how that works, there. You will have to kind of hold this up if your spring's week and it doesn't keep itself up there. You want to line up the rear ones at the same time. Now you've got your new headlight in place. For your marker light, we'll just plug that in, line it up, slide it into place. When it's all the way set in, your hole will be lined up at the top and we'll reinstall that 7mm screw.
On the driver's side of our truck, we have the old smoked housing headlights that we are removing from our truck and replacing with our new parts from 1A Auto. I think the difference is pretty clear here. Much brighter, much easier to see on this side. This side is very dim. It's difficult to see; you're not getting a great light output either from the blinker or marker, or the headlight. Neither of those are really shining through as well as our new parts from 1A Auto are. These are facing straight ahead, right at level where they should be, and part of that is due to adjustment. Whereas this one is actually shining on the wall over to my left, which is not what you want on the road. Obviously you want to see in front of you. That's going to be shining off into the other lane, annoying other drivers, and not putting light on the road where you want it.
Thanks for watching. Visit us at 1AAuto.com for quality auto parts, fast and free shipping, and the best customer service in the industry.
