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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'll be installing a tailgate cable on a 2004 GMC Sierra. It's basically the same as any GMC Sierra or Silverado from 1999 to 2006. The only tool you'll need is a 1/2 inch wrench.
Open up the tailgate. You got a bolt here. It's a ½ inch bolt. Remove that. If it's frayed, you can replace it. Not a difficult thing to replace at all. Most people can do it. If you're wondering how, that's how. A couple of keys, make sure if you're replacing one, the other one's in good shape. You don't want the tail gate to fall because if it falls, it will hit the bumper and it will get dented. Don't take them off both at the same time.
Just one little thing: When you're tightening it, you see the tailgate cable's made to go around the flint in this bolt. You need to lift up and make sure the tailgate cable goes on the bolt, and then tighten it. This allows that to keep moving. If you're tightening it up with getting it in that right spot, basically what will happen is your tailgate will just going to stay like this. This would end up pinching into there and probably damaging and scratching things. That's about it.
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First things you're gonna wanna do is make sure that your tailgate is down. Once you have it open and down, you're going to see these 3 bolts right there, remove those using a 13-millimeter socket. It's nice and tight. Let's get these out of here. Wiggle this handle around so it's nice and free. With this black bezel, the next thing you're gonna wanna have is one of these nice plastic trim tools. The reason why we're go use plastic is because we're gonna come in between the bed and the plastic shroud right here. Just go ahead and come right here, push it. Do the same thing right there. Once you have the top broken free, just go ahead and lift this straight up and draw it away. Go ahead and come in between here with a nice flathead screwdriver, pull that clip down, grab this rod and slide it out. Do the same to the other side. Let's just get this handle out of here. It's a good idea to take it out. The next thing you'd wanna do is grab onto these, give them a little squeeze, and take down your tailgate.
The next thing we wanna do is put a nice piece of wood with something soft to protect your tailgate, something that's gonna take a little bit of slack off of this. Now, I'm gonna grab onto this, pull it away, lift up, leave this hanging. Now, we're gonna remove our mounting bolts for the latch. Go ahead and grab this assembly. It's gonna have the rod coming with it. You can either disconnect it now and leave the rod in there or just pull the whole thing out. I'm gonna disconnect it as it is now, and I'll leave the rod right where it is. And there's the latch. It's a great idea to make sure you've got the right part. If it looks as though maybe your parts are opposite from what you're trying to replace, more than likely you have the wrong side of the vehicle. With that said, once you know you have the right one, let's go ahead and continue with the install. Just gonna take this. It's gonna line up pretty much just like that. So, go ahead and grab your rod, slide it up and through the hole just like that. And then make sure you take this little twist, lock it in. Make sure the rod can not slip out of there. It's very important.
Now, when you're putting in your latch, you wanna make sure you grab that rod and put it right up into this area. If you don't and it's sitting down under here, you're gonna have to go ahead and take that latch right back out of there and make sure you fix it. So, just do it now. Put it right up there and then go ahead and bolt in your latch. Now, we're just gonna take this, line it up with where it needs to go. It came with a nice new set of bolts, so we're gonna make sure we use those. You're gonna notice that there are two different bolts, though. The one that has the little shanked area is gonna go down here and it's gonna be the one that has the cable attached to it. Let's go ahead and snug these up. It's important to make sure after you've tightened that, this can still spin. That's what the shanked area on the bolt is for. So, now let's lift up on the tailgate just a teeny bit, line this up, lock it in. Now, if you're gonna be doing the other side, now is a perfect time to do that as well. Let's leave our three bolts right here where we can reach them. Now, we're gonna close the tailgate. Let's go ahead and get this handle in here. Weasel it in. There we are. Now, you're gonna grab your connecting rods here, slide it in, and then lock it down. Slide it in, bring this around, lock it in, give it a nice shake. Do the same to the other side.
So, now with this nice and loose, we can continue on to installing this. If you were to pay attention on the backside, you're gonna see that you have a couple little pitons. And then right here, you have some hookey-dos. When you go to install this, you're gonna put the bottom in first so that the pitons go down into here. They'll latch in and then just roll it in and it'll latch. Just like this. So, now from inside of the bed, you can see the backside of the tailgate, we're just gonna wiggle the handle around until we can see our bolt holes. Grab your bolts, go ahead and start all three of them in before you tighten any of them down. Let's go ahead and snug them up. Let's give it a test. Perfect.
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