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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're going to show you how to replace the outside door handle on this 2004 Dodge Ram, same for any '02 to '08 1500 and then '02 to '09 2500 and 3500. Tools you'll need to do this job are a T40 Torx driver, Phillips screwdriver, flat blade screwdriver, a 10 millimeter wrench or socket and ratchet and 8 millimeter or socket and ratchet and a T25 Torx driver. That's only for removing and replacing the lock on the driver side door.
To remove your front door panel, you're going to start by removing a T40 Torx screw that holds your handle on, right there. Then you're going to remove four Phillips screws: one there, one up here and then two down the lower part of your door panel. Here's my T40 Torx driver. We're going to speed it up here, take that T40 screw out and then your handle comes off. Then, I'm going to start with the Phillips screwdriver. Take those two off and then slyly take my jacket off so you can see my 1A Auto sweatshirt and remove the two lower Phillips screws. I'll use a regular screwdriver, carefully pry up on your switch plate here then pull it up. Both these connectors have a little button right here. Press the button and work the connector off the switch. Do the same thing here for the button right there. Now, just lift the door panel up and over the lock here. It comes off.
You want to use the 10 millimeter wrench or socket and ratchet. There's a bolt here. There's also a bolt there but it's missing. I'm not sure if this door may have been taken apart before. Then, there's a little clip, right here, that you either push down with your hand or pull it down and then you pull this one right out. Then, you want to carefully pull your water shield down.
To get to the door handle, make sure your window's all the way up. First, we're going to remove the two 8 millimeter nuts. We'll use a little fast forward to go through that. Now, you basically want to get in here. With your thumb, you can push that right off and then pull your rod out. What we're going to do is, see that pink clip in there? We're going to reach around with our finger to the back side and pull that clip off. What you're basically going to see is a good shot of my shoulder. Pull the pink clip in there with your finger. It comes off. Then pull the rod out by pulling it towards the inside of the door. The lock rod comes out. Now for your handle, you're going to bring it off here first, slide it forward a little bit and then it comes out. It just got hung up on the rod a little bit.
Now, you're going to want to change your lock mechanism over. It's a T25 Torx screw. Remove the screw. The lock comes right out. Here's a new handle from 1A Auto. You can see it's just the same as the original. Put the lock in. Put the screw in. Tighten it up. You'd want to tip your handle up and insert the rod for your handle itself and then the lock, the blue lock on there, or the clear lock if it's a new handle, then put the handle in. You'll need to pull the handle a little bit. Get the back in place. Slide it back a little bit and on. Flip that lock on to it. I'll put my 8 millimeter screws and nuts back on. Again, we'll use a little fast forward as we just put those nuts on by hand, and then, use our wrench or you can use a socket and ratchet to tighten them up.
Once the handle is tight, then we just put the water shield back in place. Put our inside door handle back on and tighten the nuts for that. Then, you want to insert the rod and lock the clip on. Before you put the door panel back on, you want to take this lock bezel and push the clips in and pop it off. It has little teeth there. It just has little teeth there that hold it in. You're just going to push them with your finger over. Put it back on. What you want to do is . there's teeth at the bottom . kind of rest it like that and bring it up. Pull your harness up, out of the way. Lock your door. Press your door, lock it down. Take that up and over, pull it back up. You might have to pull it up just a little bit and slide it down. We've got to put the four Phillips screws back in. We'll fast forward through just putting those four Phillips screws in and tightening them up. For your switch, put the smaller connector in then the larger connector. You feed the wiring down in. Push it down in. For our door handle, I'm just going to put my extension and my bit in into place. Then you pretty much start turning. It pretty much finds its own way. Then for your lock, push that right down and you're all set
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Looking at your door panel, you're gonna see your inner door handle. You wanna go ahead and remove that 10-millimeter headed bolt that's in there. Let's get the handle out of the way. Next, let's move along to getting this off right here. Let's our plastic trim tool and remove this master switch right here. There we are. Go ahead and pull on this tab, set this aside. Now we need to remove our four Philips head mounting screws. You'll have up here, one in the center where your handle was, and then two along the bottom. Grab your panel like this and carefully lift up. There we go. Now that that door panel is out of the way, let's continue on by getting this out of here. If you grab onto this white tab, push down, it's gonna unlock and then you can remove the rod from it.
Next, let's continue on by removing our two 10-millimeter mounting nuts. Grab onto the unit itself, draw it away from the door. Now, let's move along to removing our vapor barrier here. I like to use a tool that looks like this, made of plastic so I don't scratch my paint, and we're just going to try to get rid of this butyl tape here. Now that the vapor barrier is out of the way, we have a nice, clear view of the inside door handle area. I'm just gonna use this pocket screwdriver here. Press up against that and I'm gonna wiggle that. Okay. Now this one right here. There it is. Both those rods are off of there. Just pull on this a little bit, and then if you just go on ahead and just pull on the handle, it should wanna come right up and out of there. There is it, friends.
Now let's make our way over to the bench. We're going to remove the locking cylinder from the actual handle itself. We have to remove this Torx-headed bolt right here. Grab the lock cylinder, slide it out of there, grab our new handle, slide it right in. Get that in there nice and tight, give it a little tweak. Now it's gonna be time to get our new handle in here. Just keep in mind you wanna have the handle in the pulled position so this is tilted down. Tilt it in from the top, now I'm gonna line up those studs by looking in from the inside. There we are. That slides in perfectly. Let's go ahead and get our nuts back on here, snug them up.
So now it's gonna be time to get the rods back in. I'm gonna start with the farthest one from me with the pink lock. Just slide that in. And then once you have it slid into its area, go ahead and lock it in. There we are. That's locked in. Push that in. I'm just gonna use my pocket screwdriver. Try to use it as, like a lever. That one's locked in as well. Give them both a shake. You wanna make sure that they don't come unsecured because, obviously, your door handle and lock won't work right. This looks great. Awesome.
Before we go too much further, let's go ahead and give this a test. I'm just gonna use this screwdriver. I'm gonna come right inside the latch and I'm gonna pull back on it just like this which kinda makes it seem like I'm using the striker over there. Now I'm gonna apply forward pressure and I'm gonna pull on the door and see if it releases. That releases perfect. The door would've opened right there. Latched, released. Now let's get this vapor barrier back on here. You just wanna pay attention to this area right here because that's where the rod is. Pull that through, line it up with approximately where you got it all from, and then, of course, make sure it's stuck back on. Let's get this bracket back on there. We want this so it's facing down. Slide that right in there, lock it in, of course. Start on both your nuts, snug them up.
Now it's gonna be time to get our door panel back on, but before we can do that, let's get this little cover out of here. This is where that door lock is gonna be. That's gonna make it so much easier for us in the long run. Now let's put this up to the door, grab our wiring, make sure it comes through. Come up here, we want to come high. That way there, all those hooks can fit into their corresponding holes. I'm pushing at the same time as I'm letting this come down. Okay. Okay. I'm just gonna feel along the whole way, make sure I'm sitting completely up against the door. Let's grab this right here. I'm gonna go ahead and lift up on that door lock, pop this one in there. All right. Move along to our window switch here, lock this in. Okay. Make sure it's locked in. Perfect. Now, let's move along down here to putting in our handle.
So now we're gonna get our handle on here. I'm just gonna get my tool ready so it's already on the handle, put it in so it lines up with its spot, make sure that's snug. Perfect. Now it's gonna be time to put in our mounting screws. Let's go ahead up here. I'm gonna use the two larger ones first. One down here. Awesome.
