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In this video, we're going to show you how to replace a rear door lock actuator on this 2003 Mercury Mountaineer. It's the same part and similar process on these Mountaineers from 2002 to 2010 and it's the same years on the Ford Explorer. We show you on the driver side but the passenger side is a similar procedure. The items you'll need for this is a new rear door lock actuator from 1AAuto.com, a flat blade screwdriver, a 6mm and 7mm socket and ratchet and a T27 Torx bit.
Start off by prying out on the bottom of this panel and then pulling out to release the clips. Then slide it towards the front of the car and off the door handle. Now roll this panel out while pulling up on the front. Slide it forward and then just push the tab on this harness and disconnect it. Then remove this 7mm bolt and this 7mm bolt right here. Now lift your door panel up and out and your door panel's free. Peel back your water shield in this top corner and you can see Mike uses a razor blade to help separate the adhesive.
Now, using a flat blade screwdriver, just pry this clip open and then pull the door handle rod free. To give you more room while you're trying to remove the exterior door handle, we recommend you just lift up this yellow clip on the back of the interior door handle and pull your lock rod free. Remove the 6mm bolt underneath your interior door handle. Slide the door handle forward and just push this cable out and disconnect the cable. Then just pull the cable through your water shield.
Using a flat blade screwdriver, push in the tabs on this clip and pull the cable from the door. Then remove these three T27 bolts. We'll just fast-forward as Mike does that. Pull the door lock actuator towards the opening and then just lift up on this yellow clip and pull the rod free. Push the tabs on these harnesses to disconnect them.
With your assembly out, the actuator just slides on here, so take your screwdriver and just pry a little bit to make sure it's moving some. There's actually a tab right in, put your screwdriver in and twist. While you're twisting, work the actuator off. Actually if you lock this back up, it gives you a little extra room and the actuator comes right off.
There's a tab here and a tab here on the actuator, so they go into this slot and into this slot. Then there's an arm here. You have to make sure that goes into here, so put it into place and start sliding it on. Then make sure that your actuator goes into where it should here. Let's see here, I don't have it down quite far enough to push it down on there. Make sure that arm's going in and squeeze it on and slide it on.
Make sure that's open and I'm going to reconnect my harnesses here. The grey one goes here and this one goes right here. Put this in the door and then take my door handle rod or my lock rod actually, oops, I got to put it into the door and lock it in place. Bring your assembly up, take, carefully, outside door handle rod, and make sure it doesn't get caught up in there. Let's see. There we go. We'll fast-forward as Mike finishes replacing those bolts and then tightens them up.
Pull the cable back through your water shield. Then take your interior door handle and reclip the cable into the handle. Then just push that cable back into the bracket and then push in the tabs on the door handle and then slide the door handle back. We'll just fast-forward as Mike replaces that 6mm bolt and tightens it up.
All right so you want to make sure that your door is in the unlocked position. Back is locked. This way is unlocked. Then you want to hold your lock and unlock switch. Basically, here because that's unlocked, that's locked so hold it in the unlocked position. Pull it forward, make sure it's unlocked, put into your clip, and you can see and just lock the clip down. Reclip the door handle rod and just close the yellow clip over it.
Now push your water shield back into place. The door handle is held in by all these hooks, so if you take the water shield for any reason just make sure that everything is lined up so the hooks can go in easily. You can actually hook the bottom ones on first, just push the panel up, you may have to move it up a little bit, make sure it goes against the door all the way, and slide it down. Now replace those two 7mm bolts and tighten them up. The top one helps if you feed it back into place with an extension. Reconnect the harness and this tab slides in first. Take this panel and just slide it behind your door handle. Push those tabs back into place. Push the clips back in on the front.
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We're going to remove this trim panel first with plastic trim tools from 1aauto.com, which is the best way to do it without harming your interior finish. Pull out on this panel. Once you get it out, it kind of comes off this way. Same thing here with your switch panel. Then disconnect the switches: Green tab here. Then this blue tab here. This one came right out. Just a little tab on the side. Disconnect it. Now you want to get this off. It should pull out. There are six seven-millimeter bolts: one, two, three, four, and then down on the bottom five and six. We'll remove those. Again, using your plastic trim tool, get in underneath of the mirror switch. The clips are on the side. Just get it under there. Twist, and it pulls up and out. You kind of have to rotate it up like that and out, and press the tab and disconnect. Make sure you have all your bolts out, and the whole panel comes out and off.
Pull your handles to pull the cable out, then grab hold of this little ball here to hold the cable out. Then pull the cable from the door lock and use a screwdriver or something to help you release the tabs here. You'll need to raise your window up and disconnect the switch again. And pull your shield back far enough to reveal this 6mm bolt and remove it. It allows you to slide this forward and pull. Actually, that'll be good enough right there. Use a pick or a flat-head screwdriver, release this yellow clip right out, and then pull the lock or the latch rod out. And then you'll need to remove this 11mm nut that holds the back of the door lock. And now pull the door lock out, and you can twist it off of its rod. Two 8 mm bolts hold the bottom window track in place. We're going to remove those. And reach in and take the track out.
Three T27 bolts hold the lock mechanism in place, so we'll remove those. Unlatch your lock rod, and as you're pulling the last one out, your mechanism can go down. Just a kind of question of getting the right angle, bringing it out. The leads are down at the bottom, the little tab here. And once you pull that down, come down here, take this clip out and disconnect this lead here as you push down on the tab. Disconnect and pull. Just kind of have to get the mechanism to cooperate with you. Pull it out. Disconnect your two leads: one there, that one there. And then there's just a little tab right in here. Put screwdriver down and twist it a little bit and pull your actuator up and off.
Here’s the original actuator from our 2006 Explorer, new one from 1AAuto. You can see they're exactly the same, and they have the same connection point. The new one from 1AAuto's going to go in, bolt in and function just like the original. Installation for the lock mechanism is just as easy to put it in place.
Slide it down on, and make sure it's secure. Reinstall the harness, the black connector goes to the sensor on the lock mechanism, and the gray connector goes to the lock actuator. And make sure your lock actuator rod's in, your lock rod's in, and the harnesses are at the bottom. Feed your cable kind of through the door panel and feed it down in. Make sure you feed your lock up through here. Make sure your lock rod stays upright. And bringing it up into place and start your three screws in. Before you tighten it up, just make sure you don't have any harnesses pinched in. You can move this harness out, reconnect it, and put it back in place. Make sure your harnesses are free, your lock rod is free, and this is free. And then you can tighten these up.
The track goes back in, this flared end's on the top, feed it down in place, and then you can see, then move it around and line up the clips. Start in your 8 mm bolts and tighten them up. Your lock's under back in place. Start the 11mm nut on. Make sure it goes into the door handle properly and tighten that up. Put your lock rod back in place, and make sure it goes up. Unlocks and locks. Unlock it and then put it into the clip. Make sure it locks and it's secure. And then open up this clip. Push up a little bit on the latch rod, put it in, and lock the clip in place. Put this block back in place. Make sure that your door lock cable is clipped in to the back side and top on, back latch and the bottom latch. Okay. Lock this back in place. Make sure all your harnesses kind of go in there, and put your 6 mm bolt back in place. And then you can put your water shield back up.
The door panel has a series of hooks that go into slots in the door, so you can kind of put into place. Make sure your harnesses go through. Put the cable into the door and pull it. Push it through. Make sure your harnesses come up through. Put your door lock button in. Line up all those hooks. Just going to make sure our door lock button goes into the hole. The hooks should all line up and allow the panel to be flush with the door. Make sure your mirror harness comes through as well. Both the front and the back are flush. Push it down into place, and then we can reinstall our six seven-millimeter bolts to hold it in place. For these two that go in at the door handle, we just put some grease on there. That's actually going to make it so they stay in our socket. Feed into place, and start them in. Just clean the grease off the socket and start the other ones in. These bottom ones, tighten them. Don't get them too tight because you'll end up stripping the plastic nuts they go into. Reconnect the green and blue harness leads. The small black one. Make sure you put it in there correctly. Push it down and lock it into place. This one kind of hooks on the top first, snaps in place. Then this one snaps right in place. Install the mirror switch. Reconnect it down in and make sure you clock it correctly. When it's in the middle position that should be straight up, and push it in.
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