How to Remove Front Door Lock 2007-14 Toyota FJ Cruiser
Created on: 2019-07-02
Learn how to remove and replace the front door lock on your 07-14 Toyota FJ Cruiser. 1A Auto shows you how with step by step instructions in this video.
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step 1 :Removing the Door Lock
- Remove the access hole cover on the edge of the door
- Loosen the T27 screw
- Remove the door lock assembly
- Pry the door lock from the door lock cover
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step 2 :Installing the Door Lock
- Insert the door lock into the door lock cover
- Insert the door lock assembly into the door
- Tighten the T27 screw
- Replace the access hole cover
- Test door lock and handle operation
Tools needed
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T27 Torx Driver
Pocket Screwdriver
Hey, friends, it's Len here at 1A Auto. Today, we're working on a 2007 Toyota FJ Cruiser, and we're going to show you how to remove your left front door lock assembly. It'll be very easy, I want to be the guy that shows you how to do it. If you need any parts, you can always check us out at 1AAuto.com. Thanks.
So here we go. What we're going to do it we're going to grab our small pocket screwdriver. Careful not to scuff our paint as much as possible here. All we want to do is pull out this plastic tabby thing here. Just a little cover. Okay. Nothing special about it. All it does is cover this hole. The hole covers our little bolt that's right there. What we want to do now is we want to remove that bolt. Let's see, we're going to use our Torx bit, 27. Looks like a star. There we are. The bolt itself should stay right in there.
Okay, now we're going to come out here. I'm just going to grab on to our lock cover here. Pull that right out. So here we are. This is the backside of the lock. Okay. Right here, you can tell there's a little tab. All we're going to do is lift, try to pry this little thing out of here. It should come right out. There we are. Easy peasy.
Good. So let's just take a look at it real quick. This is the way it goes in. Get this little shifty thing right there. Just going to go in there like that. This piece right here, use my pocket screwdriver and try to separate it a little bit, and slide it in. There we are. It looks like it's good to go. Let's go ahead and install this into the vehicle.
Make sure our bolt isn't sliding through, sometimes it likes to try to come back through. We don't want that yet. The locking assembly, this unit right here, is pretty much what holds your handle assembly in. So once we get this in and bolted in, it's going to hold in the door latch, or door handle, I should say. All right, we'll take our T27, I'm just going to snug this up. Okay, bottomed out. Give it a little bit. Grab our cover. There we are. Okay, windows down, just in case. Flawless. Booyah.
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