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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 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 are going to show you how to remove and replace the power door lock actuator in this 2000 Lincoln Town Car, the same as any '98 to '02 Town Car. The tools you'll need are a Phillips screwdriver, a flat blade screwdriver, hammer and punch, and a 10mm wrench and socket and ratchet, and I put a little star next to it because you do have to supply your own bolt, so it could be a different size depending on what bolt you get.
Door panel removal: it's fairly simple. On this vehicle, this door panel has been taken apart a bunch of times, so some of the fasteners may be different for you, as well as, for example, it has a screw here which I believe most cars probably don't. The reason it has a screw here, I believe, is because so many of the pins in behind that hold it are broken. The way we start is remove your door lock knob just by unscrewing it, and in under here should be two, on this vehicle they are Phillips screws, and you just kind of put your screwdriver up under there. Now there is another Phillips screw up in here. This pulls out and then right in here you'll see there's another Phillips screw that goes into the door panel.
Okay, as you can tell, I've just been fast forwarding when I just get to the monotonous stuff. So, you remove that screw and then there is another screw next to the rear side of the pull. Okay, there's the bottom, there are two more Phillips screws; it's kind of a little indent in the carpet. Just put your screwdriver in there, twist it a little bit and you'll hit the screw.
This car has a little torque screw here. I'm not sure if this is supposed to be there or not. I'll remove it. This may not be on all cars. Then there is another screw here, but this is broken on my car so I know there is no screw in there. Then, what there is, is there's a series of clips. So, you would want to work your hand underneath here, and there is one clip right here, and you get your hand as close to those, and you can slide your hand underneath, and you slide it over and you'll feel it getting tighter and tighter. Then you give a good pull and get that clip out. Then come up here on the top and give it a good pull on the clip there. Then on these vehicles, there are more clips. There are clips in the middle and more on the edge, but like I said, this vehicle has been apart a few times. Actually, before you pull the door panel off, you want to pull your window switch up in the front and then pull it out. Then there is a series of harnesses that just have little tabs. You press the tab, pull the harness down. This gray tab: pull it down. The tab here on the black one and the tab here for the brown one.
Now pull the panel away and then a few more harness connections back here, a couple of small harnesses with a black and white connector. Press the little button here, and pull it apart. There's a blue connector here that has a tab on it that you pull the wires of the blue connector, and pull the tab out. It's hard to see. Okay, then there's a gray connector here, again a big tab, pull it apart So the screw is not quite all the way out. Your door panel is off.
Your door actuator is held in by a rivet right here. I've got a punch and a hammer and I'm going to punch out the center of the rivet first. Actually, once I punched it out, it actually broke the rivet. So, you may not get that lucky. You may have to end up drilling that rivet or shearing it off with a chisel, but again, like I said, I got lucky and it came right out. Okay, so now your door lock actuator is right here. You want to pull it back and you kind of just shake it up and down a little bit, and there's a rod that hooked in and now I'm pushing toward the back of the door. So that rod is in like that, so you have to bring it up and push it out of the hole it's in. Just bring it out.
There's a little clip here. Pull it down using a screwdriver. Pull it off. Now you are going to want to use a flat blade screwdriver and pry this clip off. Then we'll view the new actuator from 1A Auto: a little different shape, but that's okay. You can see it's got a stud here, here, and then one that's a little closer to the edge there, so that's how you know that you want it to be this way. You want to just put the clip here. Probably you would wear a pair of gloves because you can get pinched. Put the clip back on like that. You can do this before or after. I'm just going to put it right in my vise here, so that the vise is contacting the metal bracket here and just use my hammer and punch ... and knock that rivet out.
Okay, so here's my original actuator and new one from 1A Auto. What you want to do is: it comes with a few different arms to fit different vehicles, so just press that right in. You make sure that you just hold them together and make sure that the contracted position and the up position are basically the same.
Okay, we're ready to install. What I have is an M6 bolt. It's about a centimeter and a half overall in length. The threads are a little over a centimeter and I'm going to put that into my bracket, like that. I'm going to pre-tuck the film here, so you can see the arm is going in right there, and then down. So it's now in the same thing that when I move it up and down, my lock button goes up and down. With a finger, I'm kind of holding that bolt in place and I can see it come through right here, put this nut on, and this nut has little serrations to it, so that when I tighten it up it will stay. I'm just kind of holding the back of the bolt with my finger, and as it gets tighter it kind of wants to move. Take a 10mm wrench and it's not easy, but you can feel you way up in there, and tighten it up. I'll put the switch plug back in and you can see that's working well. Now we are just going to fast forward through putting the door panel back on. If you want to see this in regular speed, just check out our other videos for the Lincoln Town Car Door Panel Replacement.
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In this video we're going to be working with our 1998 Ford F150. We're going to show you how to remove and replace your vehicle's power door lock actuator.
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Here are the items you'll need for this repair: new door lock actuator from 1aauto.com, rivet gun from 1aauto.com, 7 to 11mm socket, ratchet, socket extension, flat blade screwdriver, pick tool
Pop off the cover tab off behind the door handle. You should be able to do this with your fingers. Then inside there is an eight millimeter screw securing the door handle to the latch. We'll get that with an eight millimeter socket ratchet and extension. Now, the trick here is do not remove this bolt all the way. Get it about halfway out until the handle is free and leave it. It will stay in there.
You don't have to worry about losing the bolt. Grab the sail panel, pop that off with your hand. The upper trim at the rear as well just pops off by hand. Now, normally, there is a seven or eight millimeter screw in both of these locations under those panels. Ours are obviously missing. Lift up and remove the window switch, and unplug all four electrical connectors. Then, remove the panel from the truck. You can then lift up, lay your door panel back, unplug the marker light, and remove the panel from your truck.
Drill out this rivet at the bottom outside edge of your door panel. Rotate the lock rod out of its hole. Get to turn it and then pop it out. Now you should be able to pull the mechanism towards this opening, where you can unplug the electrical connectors on it. There's also a harness retainer you'll need to pop off. Then you can remove the lock actuator from the vehicle.
The bracket for the power door lock actuator has this hole for a rivet and an alignment tab, which will go in these slots here. Slide it into the door, reconnect the electrical connector and the retainer. Rehook the lock rod into its slot. Got to push and then spin it in. Line up the alignment tab and install the rivet. You'll need a heavy duty rivet tool like this one here available from 1A Auto.
Normally, there's this series of clips that will retain your harness against the door. Ours have been broken or are missing, so we'll just feed the wiring for the switch up through the panel and reconnect our courtesy light into its socket. Line up the door lock into the pins in the door and slide it back into place. There are also your two screws or pins in the corner here that you'll need to reinstall. Ours are missing.
Reinstall the top panels by lining them up and snapping them into place. Switches in your panel. Line up the tabs and snap it back into place.
Reinstall your door handle and line up the bolt with the hole, and reinstall it with your eight millimeter socket and ratchet. Reinstall the little plastic cover, and you're good to go.
