How to Replace Door Lock Cylinder 2006-10 Ford Explorer
Created on: 2017-05-25
How to repair, install, fix, change or replace a broken, damaged, worn or faulty ignition lock key cylinder on 06 Ford Explorer
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step 1 :Removing the Door Panel
- Pry off the side trim piece next to the window switch panel with a rag and flat blade screwdriver
- Pry up the window switch panel with a flat blade screwdriver
- Disconnect the wiring harnesses
- Pry off the trim piece from the pull handle
- Remove the two 7mm bolts in the switch
- Remove the two 7mm bolts in the door pull
- Remove the two 7mm bolts on the bottom of the door panel
- Pry off the mirror switch with a flat blade screwdriver
- Disconnect the mirror switch wiring harness
- Pull the door panel up and off
- Disconnect the door lock cable with a flat blade screwdriver
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step 2 :Removing the Door Lock Cylinder
- Remove the 6mm bolt and slide the guard forward
- Remove the 11mm nut from the lock cylinder
- Pull the lock cylinder out and off the rod
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step 3 :Installing the Door Lock Cylinder
- Connect the cylinder to the door lock rod
- Press the cylinder into place
- Tighten the 11mm nut to the cylinder
- Tighten the 6mm bolt to the guard
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step 4 :Reinstalling the Door Panel
- Connect the door lock cable to the door handle
- Lift the door panel into place
- Push in the door panel clips
- Lightly tighten the two 7mm bolts on the bottom of the door panel
- Tighten the two 7mm bolts in the switch
- Tighten the two 7mm bolts in the door pull
- Connect the mirror switch wiring harness
- Push the mirror switch into place
- Connect the wiring harnesses to the window switch panel
- Push the window switch panel into place
- Push on the trim piece next to the window switch panel
- Push on the door pull trim piece
Tools needed
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Socket Extensions
Flat Blade Screwdriver
Phillips Head Screwdriver
6mm Socket
7mm Socket
Ratchet
Trim Tool Set
11mm Socket
Pick
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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 handle to pull the cable out. Then grab hold of this little ball here to hold the cable out and pull the cable from the door lock. Then use screwdriver or something to help you release the tabs here. You'll need to raise your window up, and disconnect your switch again. Pull your shield back far enough to reveal this six millimeter bolt and remove it.
To remove the lock cylinder, you're going to want to remove the 11 millimeter nut that holds the lock cylinder and the back of the door handle in place. Once you have that off, the lock cylinder will pull out, and then you just twist it down off the rod. Slide your door lock.
Make sure that your arm is over here and free and that it goes up and down. Then put the lock cylinder back in place. Make sure it goes all the way into the handle. Take your 11 millimeter nut. Put it into the extension. Put it on the stud. I always like to do it by hand just to make sure it goes on there without cross threading, and tighten it up.
Just make sure that your rod goes down and locks it, goes back up, and unlocks it. Feed the rod into the clip. Pull it in place. Put this block back in place. Make sure that your door lock cable is clipped into the backside, and top on, back to latch, then the bottom latch. Lock this back in place.
Make sure all your harnesses kind of go in there, and put your six millimeter bolt back in place. Now 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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