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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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Brought to you by 1AAuto.com. Your source for quality replacement parts and the best service on the Internet. In this video we're going to replace the tailgate handle on this 2004 Dodge Ram, the same as any 02-08.
Tools you'll need are a T30 Torx driver and an 8 mm socket. You'll also need a ratchet and an extension. You'll want to start out by removing a series of T30 Torx screws. You can see here I start with a hand wrench, but I quickly go to the air tools, a little faster and whether or not you have a bed liner, you can see here mine has a bed liner. If yours doesn't have the bed liner, you'll be able to see these screws, no problem. After we do these last ones, then we'll remove the bed liner piece and then there's two more screws underneath and then the tailgate access panel comes off and you can just flip it out of the way.
Now looking down here at the handle these clips, there's a little tab right here that you pry out and then pull the clip up and then the rod pulls right out. The same thing over here. Pry out, pull up, pull the rod out. Two 8 mm bolts. Okay, we'll speed it up here again and you'll notice as I start loosening the second bolt I reach under and just hold the handle up. There is your handle. Original handle, new handle from 1A Auto. Commonly what happens is these plastic parts break and that's usually because you need to lubricate your mechanisms. I'll show you how you do that. Obviously my original one is still fine on this truck, so I'm not going to waste a new one on it and I'll re-install the original. Before you put it back together you just want to lubricate the pivoting parts. Then also your latches here. Just for your information I'm using a little bit of spray on white lithium grease.
Re-installation, reverse the procedure. Put your handle up in. Kind of press it up in and shake it back and forth a little bit. Put your mechanism in. Two 8 mm bolts and nuts. When you put these rods back in you want to pull, you pull just gently towards you, not much. Just enough to make sure that there's no slack. Same thing, pull gentle towards the center of the truck. I'm going to speed up the rest of the way through it. If you have a bed liner, you probably put two or three bolts in first and then put the bed liner over the top of it and then what you want to do is you want to start all your bolts and I kind of violate my own rule here. I tighten up those two and then realize that I can't get one of them in; because, I need pull the bed liner around. Basically start all of your bolts first and then tighten them up afterwards.
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In this video, we're going to show you to replace the tail gate handle on a Dodge Ram. This one is a 2008, but the procedure is pretty much the same for a 2002-2008. You'll need a new handle from 1AAuto.com, T-30 Torx driver, and an 8mm socket with a ratchet.
One very common problem with trucks is the tailgate being stuck in a closed position. The tail gate latch is often responsible for this. If your tail gate's stuck open, you can remove the inner skin. With the tail gate closed, release the latch and replace this fairly simply and restore your tail gate to proper operating conditions.
Remove the eight, T-30 Torx screws on the inside of the tail gate. We have a plastic tail gate cover. If your truck has one as well, you want to reach behind and pull the steel on the inner piece of the tailgate while you remove your plastic. Then remove the inner cover. The latch mechanism in the center here is operated when the latch is open. You press this down, it rotates this mechanism to pull the latch rod on either side and release the latches.
The latch itself can be broken. This mechanism can be snapped off. The plastic here can break or these latch rods can come out of their clips, meaning that you're only releasing one side of the tail gate. In any case, you can either manually turn this if your latch is broken, or you can pull in on the latch rods to release the tail gate and bring it down. Use an 8mm socket and ratchet to remove the two 8mm nuts on the back of the latch. Support the latch before releasing the nut fully. With the nuts removed, pull down on the bottom of the latch, slide it down, move it from the tailgate.
See our old part and our new part are exactly the same. The same size handle, the same size outer trim here. We have the same latch rod, same release mechanism there, this piece of plastic, new studs to mount into our latch in the actual tail gate.
See the old part's rotting out here. It will finish rotting out and breaking, wouldn't snap back into position, make for some awkward function of the tail gate or this piece of plastic here can get worn out from opening and closing the tailgate so many times, it stresses and snaps causing your tailgate to be stuck closed. If your old latch is rusted out and snapped and plastic is broken, this new part from 1AAuto is going to go in direct fit just like your original equipment and fix you up right.
Reinstall the handle into the tail gate. Be sure that the alignment pins on the latch handle are in their proper slots on either side. Once the pins are aligned, set your latch onto the studs to the back of your handle.
Reinstall the two 8mm nuts, tighten them down with a socket and ratchet. To check operation of your latch before closing the tail gate, lock the latches closed on either side. Pull the handle and make sure the latches have released on both sides. Now we know that we can open and close our tail gate properly.
Reinstall the steel cover on the top of the tail gate. If you don't have a plastic cover, you can skip this next step and just start bolting it down. Since we have one, we'll install our plastic tail gate cover and our eight T-30 Torx screws.
Close your tail gate. Make sure that the latch works properly.
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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 how to remove and replace the rear door handle on this 2004 Dodge Ram quad cab, same as any '02 to '08, plus any '09 2500 or 3500. Tools you'll need are 8mm and 10mm sockets with ratchet and extension and a Phillips screwdriver.
First, you're going to remove two fasteners. There is either a T40 Torx Bit or a 10mm socket bolt there holding your door handle on and then a Phillips screw right there. Here's the T40 Torx Bit or the 10mm socket with an extension. You'll need the extension with the Torx Bit as well. I'm going to use the 10mm socket. Pull your door handle up a little bit. As I'm turning, I'm just pulling out on the handle a little bit. Here's the 10mm screw. Then your door panel just comes up. Walk your door like that, and pull that out. Behind, there is a connector, here, for your power window. You just push down here and disconnect and then the door panel comes right off.
To remove the outside door handle, pull back your water shield some and then there are two 8mm bolts: one there, and then, using a screwdriver, push down and pry off this little plug and that exposes another 8mm nut there. Here's our plug. Then use an 8mm socket with a ratchet and extension. I'm just speeding it up here as I just remove those nuts and you just want to make sure to be careful not to drop those down under your door. It's hard to find. Now what you're going to want to do is to pull the handle out, pull it to the open position just a little bit, pull it down, and now, there's a little clip right here you need to push. You need to push with a pair of pliers or a screwdriver or something or just use your finger and then the handle comes off and you can see my handle here is fine.
Just to show you how to re-install it, reverse the procedure. Put the rod in, pull the clip down, lock it on, force that down just a little bit, get that counterweight up and in, slide it back some and it's on. I'll take our 8mm nuts. If you like . actually these are already sticky, so, at the factory, they may have put just a little glue on to help them hold on. Put a little glue just so they hold in to your socket, and turn. We'll speed it up as just turn those in by hand. Again, just be very careful not to drop them down in the door. Now, I'll tighten them up. They don't have to be incredibly tight.
To put it back on, first what you're going to want to do is pop this bezel around your door lock off, which just requires you to push on the little teeth from the bottom here and then unsnap it. Now there are two teeth down here. Just hook those in a little bit. Pull your plug lead for your power window out a little bit and plug that in. Then push it in. You may have to lift up just a little bit, make sure that the lock comes through. Push down. Make sure all your edges are nice and tight against the door. Put our screw in. Take your door handle, put the socket or the Torx bit right on it. Loop it in there. Pretty much you'll start turning and it finds its way. Then, for your lock bezel, put that over and it snaps on.
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