How to Replace Exterior Door Handle 2001-04 Toyota Sequoia
Created on: 2012-03-13
This how-to video will show the steps for removing and installing the door panel and outside door handle on the 01-04 Toyota Sequoia
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step 1 :Removing the Door Panel
- Disconnect the negative battery cable with an 8mm wrench
- Pry off the trim piece at the front top corner of the door panel with a flat blade screwdriver
- Pry up the window switch panel with a flat blade screwdriver
- Disconnect the window switch wiring harnesses
- Pry off the round trim piece beneath the door pull
- Pry out the courtesy light clip
- Disconnect the courtesy light harness
- Pry off the trim piece inside the door handle with a flat blade screwdriver
- Pry off the round trim piece on the edge of the door panel
- Remove the Phillips head screw from the edge of the door panel
- Remove the Phillips head screw from the door handle
- Remove the Phillips head screw from below the door pull
- Pry out on the door handle bezel with a flat blade screwdriver
- Push the center of the two pins in on the rear end of the door panel
- Pry out the pins by hand
- Pry out the door panel with a door panel clip tool or putty knife
- Lift the door panel up and off
- Remove any remaining clips in the door with a pair of needle nose pliers
- Carefully peel off the water shield
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step 2 :Removing the Door Handle
- Disconnect the lock rods from their clips inside the door
- Remove the plug from the door
- Remove the two 10mm bolts from the door handle
- Remove the door handle
- Disconnect the latch rod from the door handle
- Remove the 10mm bolt from the lock cylinder
- Remove the lock cylinder
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step 3 :Installing the New Door Handle
- Insert the lock cylinder into the new door handle
- Tighten the 10mm bolt to the lock cylinder
- Connect the latch cable to the door handle
- Insert the door handle into the door
- Insert and tighten the two 10mm bolts to the door handle
- Connect the lock rods
- Push on the plug
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step 4 :Reinstalling the Door Panel
- Put the water shield into place
- Lift the door panel into place
- Push in the door panel clips
- Push on the trim piece at the top front corner of the door panel
- Push on the door handle bezel
- Connect the window switch wiring harnesses
- Push in the window switch panel
- Connect the courtesy light wiring harness
- Push in the courtesy light
- Insert the Phillips head screw from the edge of the door panel
- Insert the Phillips head screw from the door handle
- Insert the Phillips head screw from below the door pull
- Push the center on the pins out and insert the pin into the door
- Push on the trim piece inside the door handle
- Push on the round trim piece beneath the door pull
- Push on the round trim piece on the edge of the door panel
- Connect the negative battery cable with an 8mm wrench
Tools needed
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Socket Extensions
Flat Blade Screwdriver
Phillips Head Screwdriver
Putty Knife
8mm Wrench
10mm Socket
Ratchet
Needle nose pliers
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In this video, we're going to show you how to remove and reinstall an outside door handle on this 2001 Toyota Sequoia. We do this on the driver's front door, but the procedure is similar for any one of the doors. The tools you'll need include flat blade screwdriver both regular and small size, Phillips screwdriver, door panel clip tool or a putty knife, and a 10mm socket and ratchet with extension.
Your battery's here on the driver's side. You want to disconnect your negative battery cable, which should be closer to the fender. Loosen it, pull it up off the terminal. and tuck it down on the side. Start up here with a flat blade screwdriver and carefully pry at the top and pull this up and out. Then, there's your switch panel here. Insert your screwdriver right in the middle at the front end. It's a little unnerving, it eventually comes, but you have to pry it pretty hard. Your switch panel comes up and out, and there's a little tab right here press that down and disconnect it.
Next, there's a little detent here. Pull this little plug out, and then, on your courtesy light here, put your screwdriver in at the front and pry out. There's a little metal clip you heard it fall down in the door. It'll fall out in a second, but then you pull this right off. Then you need a smaller flat blade screwdriver and a little trapdoor in your door handle here. Just pry that out, and you'll see a Phillips screw. Then, also, here there's a little plug. Pry that off, and there's a Phillips screw right there. Use your Phillips screwdriver, fast-forward here as we remove that screw. The one that is in the door handle, and then the one underneath the arm rest as well.
Take your regular screwdriver again. Put it in right above the lock here, and pry up and out on your bezel. Down and out, and pull that right out. Now, on the back edge of the door panel, there are two little pins. Push the center of the pins in, and then these clips come out. Take a door panel clip tool and insert it into the back here. Slide it up, you'll feel a clip, try to go around the clip, and pull it out. There's my little clip for my courtesy light. Go right around the door. If you don't have a door panel clip tool like this, then a household putty knife works as well as long as it has a tempered blade. Once you've released the clips, lift the door panel up and off.
A clip or two stayed behind. Just use a pair of needle nose pliers and pull those out. Then just put them right back into your door panel. Carefully peel your water shield away so you can get to the upper corner of the inside of the door. You're going to go inside, and there's two clips. You can see them right there and you want to reach in with your hand and you can force that clip off.
I think we need to reach in here, you just have to force it off with your hand and pull it out. There's one bolt there at the front handle, and then you can access the other one right through this hole. 10mm socket with a long extension, this one here is pretty easy. Make sure that you're actually going at the right one, it's the one that's higher up. Let's see, you can see there's a bolt below there that holds the lock, you want the one that's higher up that holds the handle to the door. Try not to, but don't worry if you drop them because you can just reach right into the door and grab the bolt if you drop it.
Now pull the handle out. Then you'll need to work it off of your latch rod. If you're putting a new handle on, obviously you can see my new handle is fine, but you would want to remove this bolt, remove your lock cylinder, transfer it to your new handle.
Reinstallation is pretty easy. Put it back on. You can latch that on, down and in. Start one bolt here. Use my extension to put the other bolt in. Here I just bolt into the socket with the extension on it, and I'm just looking at it in there and getting it into place. Then once I get it into its spot then I just turn it by hand.
I'm holding the handle on the other side. Then once I have both of the bolts started, then I'll just tighten it up nice and snug don't over tighten them. Make sure you put the lock rod back in place, snap that back in place. Then make sure you put your water shield back in place. Put the door panel on, put it up in place, make sure you pull your window harness through. Fish this harness through right down in here. Just look back and make sure your pins are going in.
Now you're just going to start from top to bottom. Make sure this goes down in correctly. Make sure that goes in. We'll fast-forward here again as I put the screw underneath the arm rest and the door handle, as well as the front one and put that clip on and the little cover panels. On these pins, make sure you push them out so the center is sticking out, and then you push it into place and lock it in by pushing the pin flush. Again push it out so the pin is sticking out, put it in, push the pin in flush to lock. If you haven't already, reconnect and tighten up your negative battery cable.
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