How to Replace Headlight Assembly 2014-19 Toyota Tundra
Created on: 2018-03-26
How to repair, install, fix, change or replace the broken, damaged, cracked, faded, cloudy, or chipped headlights on 14, 15, 16, 17 Toyota Tundra
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step 1 :Removing the Grille
- Open the hood
- Remove the four 10mm bolts from the top of the bulb
- Pry the two push clips out from the top of the grille with a flat blade screwdriver
- Pull the grille up off its grommets
- Release the tabs at the bottom of the grille
- Lift the grille up and off the truck
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step 2 :Removing the Bumper Cover
- Remove the two 10mm bolts from the back of the bumper cover inside the fender liner
- Pry the two push clips out of the bumper cover with a flat blade screwdriver
- Pull the bumper cover off the truck
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step 3 :Removing the Headlight
- Remove the two 10mm bolts from the top of the headlight
- Remove the 10mm bolt from the side of the headlight
- Cover the bumper with a rag to protect the headlight lens
- Pull the headlight up, forward, and off
- Pull the sockets off the headlight bulbs
- Disconnect the electrical connector from the height adjustment
- Unclip the wiring harness from the headlight
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step 4 :Installing the Headlight
- Connect the sockets to the headlight bulbs
- Connect the electrical connector to the height adjustment
- Clip the wiring harness to the headlight
- Line up the headlight with the metal tab on the bumper
- Push in the headlight
- Lower the headlight onto its grommets
- Insert the 10mm bolt into the side of the headlight
- Insert the two self-tapping 10mm bolts into the top of the headlight
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step 5 :Installing the Bumper Cover
- Remove the rag from the bumper
- Press the bumper cover into place
- Push the two plastic clips into the bumper cover
- Insert the two 10mm bolts in the back of the bumper cover inside the fender liner
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step 6 :Installing the Grille
- Line up the grille with the bumper
- Push the grille clips into the bumper
- Push the grille onto its grommets
- Push the two plastic clips into the top of the grille
- Insert the four 10mm bolts into the top of the grille
Tools needed
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Socket Extensions
Flat Blade Screwdriver
10mm Socket
Ratchet
Needle nose pliers
Trim Tool Set
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Release the hood from the inside, we're going to reach under here. Push the lever up for the safety catch and then lift the hood up. It has struts. There's no hood prop rod.
To remove the grille, there are four 10 millimeter bolts along the top. They do have a Phillips head cutout in them, but I'm going to use a 10 millimeter socket extension and ratchet to remove them. Once those are removed, there are two push clips on either side on the top. Use a small, flat bladed screwdriver to pry up that clip and if these are loose enough, once they're popped up, they'll come right out. Do the same for both sides.
To remove the grille, it actually sits over these white grommets. So it's not going to want to move this way. So you kind of have to pry it up just like that. Then you pull it down away from the truck. Just going to reach in behind and there's a tab holding the lower part of the grille in and you have to – it's kind of like a tab. You can push on it. Push down. With it pushed down, it should pull out like that. So I’m basically just pushing it down to get it unlocked off this little ridge and at the same time, it's pulling out of this pin down here. I need to go do the other side. We'll do the same thing on the passenger side. When it's pushed out, pull it out of the lower pin. Lift the grille up and out. We'll put that aside.
To remove this plastic bumper cover, there are two push clips and on the inside of the fender liner, there are two 10 millimeter bolts. They do have Phillips head holes. But I'm going to use a 10 millimeter socket and ratchet to remove them. Use a small, flat bladed screwdriver to pry out these push clips. This procedure will be the exact same thing on the opposite side. With those removed, the bumper will peel outwards. For these clips along the fender edge here, you'll pop it out. It almost sounds like you're breaking it. You're just popping it off.
To remove the headlamp assembly, there are two 10 millimeter bolts on the top, again with the Phillips head cutouts. I'm going to use the 10 millimeter socket extension and ratchet and there is a single 10 millimeter bolt on this side. It does not have the Phillips head screw part. You can start with these two. Remove this one. That one doesn't want to come out. I'll just use a magnet. Get out of there.
You may want to use a rag or an old t-shirt and we're just going to put it over the metal part of the bumper because we're going to remove the headlight out to disconnect it. I can rest it on the bumper. I don't want to scratch the lens.
You're going to lift on these to pull them off the little grommets. There is a little pushed in part here. You're going to kind of lift that out at the same time and then slide the whole headlamp out and rest it right on the bumper.
To remove the entire headlight assembly, we'll unplug the plug sockets. To disconnect the electrical connectors at the plug sockets, just push in on this lock here. Sometimes if you push it in at the same time and then take it off, sometimes I use a flat bladed screwdriver to make it easier to push on it. This one just pulls straight up. Disconnect the electrical connector at the height adjustment. Push in on the lock. Disconnect the turn signal. The harness is clipped to the bottom of the headlight, so you can push in on these tabs here. You can use needle nose pliers or the flat bladed screwdriver you've been using and you can just push them in like that. Hold onto the housing so it doesn't fall, and take the entire thing out.
Reinstall the headlamp. Need it lined up here. Start with the turn signal bulb connector. It'll click when it locks in place. Get the adjustment connector on here. That'll click when it locks in place. The headlight one just pushes on. Side marker light locks in place, and then connect the harness back up. Push this in place. The lamp will go back in.
So the bottom of the headlight is going to clip into this metal tab here, into this opening down here. I'm going to get this lined up in place. Move the air guide. Readjust here. It pushes up and goes down over the grommets. The bolt without the Phillips head screw part goes in down here because that is a machine bolt and the top ones are self-tapping bolts. These two bolts are self-tapping because they're going into classic grommets. I'll just snug it up. I don’t want to strip out the plastic grommet.
Reinstall this plastic bumper corner. So it does have a lip here and I'm going to slide it behind the splash shield. I'll push it up into the clips. With our push clips pulled out like that, slide them into place. Push them in. They snap when they're locked. Reinstall the two self-tapping bolts here that hold the fender liner up and then pinch against the bumper corner.
To reinstall the grille, there are three push clips in the bottom that will push into this metal bumper support. There's a lower locking tab. This one's really stiff. You can't get to it when you remove it. This is the upper one we pushed to release. So this will go into here. This will go into here. It’s the same for both sides. You're going to get the bottom one lined up first and then line up the top. The same for this side. I'm going to push them in at the bottom. Click into place and push the top up over the white grommets.
Put the push clips back in. Reinstall all the self-tapping bolts. They're just going into plastic grommets. You don't have to over tighten them. You feeling them get tight, just stop. Do the same for all four.
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