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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'll be installing a tailgate cable on a 2004 GMC Sierra. It's basically the same as any GMC Sierra or Silverado from 1999 to 2006. The only tool you'll need is a 1/2 inch wrench.
Open up the tailgate. You got a bolt here. It's a ½ inch bolt. Remove that. If it's frayed, you can replace it. Not a difficult thing to replace at all. Most people can do it. If you're wondering how, that's how. A couple of keys, make sure if you're replacing one, the other one's in good shape. You don't want the tail gate to fall because if it falls, it will hit the bumper and it will get dented. Don't take them off both at the same time.
Just one little thing: When you're tightening it, you see the tailgate cable's made to go around the flint in this bolt. You need to lift up and make sure the tailgate cable goes on the bolt, and then tighten it. This allows that to keep moving. If you're tightening it up with getting it in that right spot, basically what will happen is your tailgate will just going to stay like this. This would end up pinching into there and probably damaging and scratching things. That's about it.
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All right. So to do this job, you're gonna need one simple tool. A plastic trim tool. Something that I want to show you, if you look at the backside of the little bezel, you're gonna see these little ears. That's where we're gonna be looking for with our plastic trim tool. We're gonna come right down right where that is, and then we'll pop it off. So, I'm gonna come like this. Give it a little twist. There we are. Do the same on the bottom. Okay. There we are. Let's get this puppy installed. Just gonna line it up. It should wanna press right in. Couple loving bonks. Get those clips in there. Beautiful.
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So, now that we have the tailgate down, we have a clear view of all of our mounting bolts. We have two here, 13-millimeter. And then, if you were to go around, more than likely you have some Phillips heads. We're gonna remove them all. Here we go. Bring up the tailgate. Now, we can see what's going on in there. Let's see about popping this off of here. Here we are.
Now, this one right here has been broken for a while so it has a little wire tie. I'm just gonna get that right out of there using some cutters. Awesome. Now, you got these little white clips. They should kinda pry off of the bar there. And then, once you have it flipped up you can take the rod right off. This one obviously flips down. Here we are. Slide that out of right there. Here it is.
It's time to get this in here, just get it kinda lined up. You can grab your little rods. We're gonna put it through the hole just like that, and we're gonna spin this around so the lock comes around and clips right onto the rod. Give it a wiggle. That feels great. Do the same to the other one. Bright that one up and around. Lock it in. Perfect.
Get that started in there. We're just gonna turn it and try to make sure these bolt holes are lined up and they're not like that. Line them up nice. You see, when I tightened it, it kinda turned a little bit. Here we are. Let's get this back up on here. Line our bolt holes. Here we are. Now, I'm gonna go around the sides, start all those in as well. All right, let's start snugging them all up.
Let's get this puppy installed. I'm just gonna line it up. Make sure you wanna press right in. A couple of loving bonks. Put those clips in there. Beautiful.
