How to Replace Rear Inside Door Handle Latch Cable 2002-05 Mercury Mountaineer

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In this video, we're going to show you how to replace the rear door handle cable on this 2003 Mercury Mountaineer, and we show you on the driver side, but the passenger side is a similar procedure. The items you'll need for this are a flat blade screwdriver and a 6mm and 7mm socket and ratchet, and a T27 Torx bit.

Start off by prying out on the bottom of this panel and then pulling out to release the clips. Then slide it towards the front of the car and off the door handle. Now roll this panel out while pulling up on the front. Slide it forward and then just push the tab on this harness and disconnect it. Then remove this 7mm bolt and this 7mm bolt right here. Now lift your door panel up and out and your door panel's free.

Peel back your water shield in this top corner, and you can see Mike uses a razor blade to help separate the adhesive. Using a flat blade screwdriver pry this clip open and then pull the door handle rod free. To give you more room while you're trying to remove the exterior door handle, we recommend you just lift up this yellow clip on the back of the interior door handle and pull your lock rod free.

Remove the 6mm bolt underneath your interior door handle. Then, slide the door handle forward and push this cable out, and disconnect the cable. Then, pull the cable through your water shield. Using a flat blade screwdriver, push in the tabs on this clip and pull the cable from the door. Then, remove these three T27 bolts. We'll just fast forward as Mike does that. Pull the door lock actuator towards the opening and lift up on this yellow clip and pull the rod free. Push the tabs on these harnesses to disconnect them.

To remove your cable, it's best if you put the child lock in the up position. Flip this up, and then push pretty firmly down, and unclip the cable. Then, flip this lever down and pull the cable out.

Put the cable back in, put it up through, and then pull this. Then, pull the cable. Now, make sure your cable is actuating that there. Put the casing back down in, and it takes a firm push to lock it back in place. Again, make sure that cable pulls, in the locked position, it pulls the whole thing. Flip this cover back down.

Make sure that's open, and I'm going to reconnect my harnesses here. The gray one goes here, and this one goes right here. Put this in the door, and then take my lock rod. I've got to put it into the door and lock it in place. Bring your assembly up. Be careful of the outside door handle rod; make sure it doesn't get caught up in there. There we go. We'll fast forward as Mike finishes replacing those bolts and then tightens them up. Pull the cable back through your water shield, and then, take your interior door handle and re-clip the cable into the handle. Then, push that cable back into the bracket, and then, push in the tabs on the door handle and slide the door handle back.

We'll fast forward as Mike replaces that 6mm bolt and tightens it up. You want to make sure that your door is in the unlocked position. Back is locked and this way is unlocked. Then, you want to hold your lock/unlock switch here, because that's unlocked and that's locked. Hold it in the unlock position, pull it forward to make sure it's unlocked, put it into your clip, and then just lock the clip down. Reclip the door handle rod and just close the yellow clip over it. Push your water shield back into place.

The door panel is held in by all these hooks, so if you take the water shield off for any reason, just make sure that everything is lined up so the hooks can go in easily. You can actually kind of hook the bottom ones on first. Just push the panel up, you may have to move it up a little bit, make sure it goes against the door all the way, and slide it down. Now replace those two 7mm bolts and tighten them up. The top one helps if you feed it back into place with an extension. Reconnect the harness and this tab slides in first. Take this panel and just slide it behind your door handle. Push those tabs back into place. Push the clips back in on the front.

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How to Replace Rear Inside Door Handle Latch Cable 2002-05 Mercury Mountaineer

step 1 :Removing the Door Panel

step 2 :Removing the Door Handle

step 3 :Removing the Door Latch Assembly

step 4 :Removing the Door Latch Cable

step 5 :Installing the Latch Cable

step 6 :Installing the Latch Mechanism

step 7 :Reinstalling the Door Handle

step 8 :Reinstalling the Door Panel

Tools needed

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How to Replace Rear Inside Door Handle Latch Cable 2002-05 Mercury Mountaineer

step 1 :Removing the Door Panel 0:34

step 2 :Removing the Door Handle 1:25

step 3 :Removing the Door Latch Assembly 2:07

step 4 :Removing the Door Latch Cable 3:18

step 5 :Installing the Latch Cable 3:38

step 6 :Installing the Latch Mechanism 4:09

step 7 :Reinstalling the Door Handle 5:48

step 8 :Reinstalling the Door Panel 7:27

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step 1 :Removing the Door Panel

step 2 :Removing the Door Handle

step 3 :Removing the Door Latch Assembly

step 4 :Removing the Door Latch Cable

step 5 :Installing the Latch Cable

step 6 :Installing the Latch Mechanism

step 7 :Reinstalling the Door Handle

step 8 :Reinstalling the Door Panel