How To Replace Rear Interior Door Handle 1998-2002 Lincoln Town Car
Created on: 2011-05-09
How to repair, install, fix, change or replace a broken or snapped off interior door handleon 98, 99, 00, 01, or 02 Lincoln Town Car models.
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step 1 :Removing the Door Panel
- Pry up the window switch panel with a flat blade screwdriver
- Disconnect the window switch wiring harness
- Remove the T20 Torx screws underneath the door pull
- Remove the door pull
- Remove the Phillips screws in the door pull
- Remove the Phillips screw at the bottom of the door panel
- Remove the lock knob
- Pry out the door panel with a door panel clip tool or putty knife
- Lift the door panel up and off
- Peel back the water shield
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step 2 :Removing the Door Handle
- Remove the Phillips screw from the door handle
- Slide the handle backwards and out
- Twist the handle off the latch rod
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step 3 :Installing the Door Handle
- Twist the door handle onto the latch rod
- Slide the door handle forward into place
- Insert the Phillips screw into the door handle
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step 4 :Reinstalling the Door Panel
- Put the water shield into place
- Hold the watershield in place with painter's tape if necessary
- Lift the door panel into place
- Push in the door panel clips
- Insert the Phillips screws in the door pull
- Push in the door pull
- Insert the T20 Torx screws underneath the door pull
- Insert the Phillips screw at the bottom of the door panel
- Push on the lock knob
- Connect the window switch wiring harness
- Push on the window switch panel
Tools needed
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Flat Blade Screwdriver
T20 Driver
Phillips Head Screwdriver
Painter's Tape
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In this video, we're going to show you how to how to take off and put back on the rear inside door handle on this Lincoln Town Car, and this car is a 2000. It should be the same for any '98 to '02. Tools you'll need are a flat blade screwdriver, a T20 Torx driver, and a Phillips screwdriver.
You can use a regular screwdriver to pry up on the front of this panel here, and that should come up and forward. Mine has been broken. Then, underneath there is a tab that you press to disconnect. Now you'll need a T20 TORX bit, and there are screws up underneath here. The screws in this were T20, although your car could vary. It could have Phillips head screws in it. This pulls out, and there are Phillips head screws behind here and a Phillips head screw in behind here. Then right in here, you'll see a little slot in the door panel carpet, and there should be a Phillips head screw right in there. It might be easy just to remove your lock knob.
To use just a household putty knife, put it in behind here, go until I can't go, and pop that. Out comes a frog. That's interesting. It must have been some passenger's toy. Do the same thing right here in the front. There are some more clips in the middle. Now the panel comes off, and there is a little harness here that you just pry up to disconnect. Then there's your panel off.
You can see here this car's already had some work done to it, so somebody's already cut the water shield down, which is fine. You want to pull that down, and you can see here your door handle has one Phillips screw on it. Remove that screw. Push the handle backwards and out. Then on the back, you just want to kind of move it back and forth and twist it off of the rod in the back here. You can see this rod. That's what it mounts to. It's just a little bushing.
Reinstallation is pretty much the opposite. The handle is fine on this vehicle, so I'm not going to replace it, so put it back on, and twist it into place. Put the handle on, slide it forward, and then reinstall my screw. I'm going to peel this back up into place. Put electric tape. Make sure it stays in the right spot. Now on the door panel, you have to get these tabs through the plastic here, and then these longer pins are locating pins. So, let's feed our harness up through, connect our courtesy light. Make sure that harness is up and through. Make sure our tabs go through. Make sure our lock rod comes up through. Let's see. That goes there.
You have to guide the two of our pins in. One fell out here. Just kind of pull the panel back, make sure the pins are going into the holes. Put the bottom screw in first, nice and long. Now put these screws up here. So you can see the screws only go in a certain way, and you obviously want them going from the bottom, so you want to make sure you have it the correct way. Feed it in. I'm going to speed it up here a little bit. I do kind of struggle with this. You do basically have to push in on the strap and then get the screw up in there and get it to hold correctly. It just takes a couple tries, a little trial and error.
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