How To Remove Front Door Panels 1990-94 Chevy Lumina Part 1

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In this video, we're going to show you how to remove a door panel on this 1992 Lumina. It's the same as any '90 to '94 Lumina, and probably the same as any '87 to '94 Corsica. It's not a difficult thing, but it is kind of a laundry list of tools: a Phillips screwdriver, flat blade screwdriver, putty knife or door panel clip tool, a 5/64 Allen wrench or T7 Torx driver, large Phillips screwdriver, 15mm and 7mm sockets and wrenches, and needle nose pliers.

To remove the door panel, there's actually seven Phillips screws: one, two, then there's one down in the corner, three, four, back in here five, and then the arm rest is six and seven. I'm going to remove those seven screws.

Now, if you can you want to roll your window all the way down. If you can't roll your window down, you can do this step afterwards. On the mirror, there's a little set screw right here. Use a T7 Torx screwdriver or this is a 5/64 Allen screw. Loosen that up a little bit, and that'll allow your mirror control to slide through there.

Next, what you're going to want to do is take a putty knife and a rag to protect your paint, and then, on the front, there's a few small clips. Just pull out on the plastic. Once you have a good leverage, you can pull that out and pull the rest of these clips out. Basically, what you're pulling on here, this here is your clips in the panel itself, and then, with this, you're just getting that close to there and prying out those pins.

You want to get this switch panel out, so you want to reach in behind here. There's a little tab right there, you want to push up on that and out, and push the bottom of the switch panel out. This is just kind of glued to the vinyl here. I'm just going to carefully pry it away, and then it pulls up and out. Actually, on the backside, you can see this little green locking tab that you've got to pull out, and, now, there you go, there's the same thing here

There's a little green locking tab that they really made sure they put these things together well. Push this thumb tab down, pull out, and then the last one this is just a little thing that pulls, twists and out. There's your switch out.

Now you have that switch out of there, there's a couple of clips right in under here. Those you're going to pull here and up in here. Then this comes up and out like that, and there's two actual clips that hold the right in there, that little gray that's actually a clip.

Now the upholstery came out of that one clean. If you can see right there, there's a little clip just poking out. What you want to do is actually put your putty knife in there between the clip and the molding. Let's see if I can get it. That will help the molding come out. I need to remove this. I pulled that out, and then here's some more connectors. Do this one first. These are just little twist out bulb and this comes up.

There is one more clip in behind there that you can lift the door panel up off of. Then this little thing comes apart like that. Up here, that belt goes there, the door panel comes off, and there you go. You can see that I left a few clips behind, so I'm just going to remove those, and a good way to do this is with a pair of pliers and your Phillips screw. This one will come right out by the looks, and you basically just grab onto the clip with the pliers, put the screwdriver in behind, and pry the pliers right out. Those clips go on the panel right there, right up here, I actually have the panel upside down. Those are the two lower ones, here's the one right there.

Next we're going to have to take apart this panel and your seatbelt. There are three 15mm bolts here: one here, one here, and then one right back into here. I'll take those off, and then there's a large screw right here. Now you probably can get it with a big screwdriver, but the best thing to have is a screw bit like this. Actually that came off pretty easy. Probably with a screwdriver it'll come right off. I'll take those off, and then I'll remove these 7mm bolts.

Now I'm going to unplug these, they're just little tabs here, and they pull out. Just your regular screwdriver. Now you can remove this water shield carefully. There's nothing wrong with the regulator or the motor in this door, so I don't really want to take the whole thing apart because it's riveted together.

If you want to replace the power window motor, what you would do is drill out these four rivets. Actually, first you would, if you can, drill out these four rivets, and here's where the power window motor hooks in. You basically pull out this little green tab that locks it, and there's a tab back in here, so that disconnects your power window motor. You drill out these four rivets, secure your window up here, and you'd slide the window regulator out of the window track. Then that will allow you to bring the window regulator out through here. Then you can replace the window motor. Then you would need to bolt the window regulator back onto the door.

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