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In this video we're going to show you how to replace the rear door handle on the driver's side of this 2005 GMC Savana 2500. It's the same process on the 1996-2010 Savana's and the Chevy Express. The only tools that you'll need for this are a 10mm socket and a ratchet.
With the doors open, what you'll want to do is just pry off this inner door panel here. All you do is stick your fingers on the edge of it and pry out. Just give it a sharp tug and do this all the way around the door to free up all those clips. We'll just fast forward here as he undoes all those clips and pulls that door panel off.
Now inside the door here on the back of the door handle, you can see there are two clips here: one there and then one right next to it on the left over there. These are actually really simple to unhook. To do this all you do is pull back on the clip and it just comes undone and you do the same thing to the other one. You can use a flat blade screwdriver and just poke it through that hole and do it too, but you can actually do it by hand as well.
Now you can see there are four 10mm nuts in here. You just want to remove those. With those removed you can now just pull this handle out. You need to twist it once you get it a certain amount of the way so that those clips can come out. You just pull it free.
Now put your new one back in. You want to put it in sideways so that those clips fit in. Then you want to turn the door handle once you get it to a certain point and push that into place. Then start reinserting those 10mm nuts. We'll just fast forward as he does this.
Now, you want to reclip those clips. Just put the rod into the clip and close it. You do the same thing for the other ones. Now line up your door panel and hit the clips in all the way around the door, and you're all set.
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Okay, friends, to get started on our driver's side rear outside door handle, we're just gonna come right in between this area with a little pry tool. As I start to separate this, you can see where one of the pushpins is, go ahead and grab onto that. Pop it off of there. Down along the bottom, you're gonna find another one. And then, of course, as we go, you'll find some more, go ahead and pop them all off. And here we are.
Now let's just grab onto this vapor barrier. We're gonna be careful not to rip it. We just want to get behind it. Now that the vapor barrier is out of the way, we have a clear view of the inside where our latch is gonna be. You're gonna notice that you have two rods go into it. We wanna go ahead and pop those clips so that the rods come off of it. And then you're gonna remove all four of the mounting nuts. I'm just gonna use a nice curve pick like this. I'm gonna grab onto this ear, carefully just pull it off of there. When I can grab onto that rod, we'll do the same to the other one. Let's give this a little wiggle. There it is. Just gonna try to get this past this little hook. There it is, friends.
Okay, friends, now it's time to install our brand new door handle. Let's go ahead and put this side in, first, right up along here. And then we're gonna twist this so that it can make it past this edge right here. Okay. Should slide right in now, go ahead and start in all those nuts and then we'll snug them up. Once those are all tight, let's go ahead and pop open our clips, and then we'll get our rods ready. Let's go ahead and slide them so they're in there. You really shouldn't have to pull up or down on them in any way. Go ahead and lock them in and do the same for the other one as well.
So let's say you tried your latch before you put it back together and you happen to notice that the bottom latch unlatched, but the upper latch didn't. That would tell you that this rod on the backside there needs to be adjusted. Essentially, just go ahead and pop this, pull that rod just a little bit further, go ahead and lock it in and retry it. The same would be said if it was the lower side that wasn't working properly, you would just do this one.
After my readjustment, let's go ahead and test it. The latches work perfect. Let's continue putting it back together. Let's put on this weather barrier here. Let's go ahead and get this on here. Just make sure it's situated the whole way around. Perfect. Let's give it another test. Perfect.
