How to Replace Manual Window Regulator Chevy Silverado Work Truck 2007-09

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What's up, guys? I'm Andy from 1A Auto. Today I'm going to show you how to remove and reinstall a manual crank window regulator in this 2008 Chevy Silverado work truck. If you need parts for your vehicle, click the link in the description and head over to 1aauto.com. Open the door. We're going to remove this window crank. We need a window crank removal tool.

So we're going to position the window crank in this up position right here. Take the tool. If you want to put it in the same location that it was, you could mark it before you take this off. We can get this. Just slide this down. There's a little pin/little clip you have to remove. You can just push it down and then it slides right off. To take this lock button off, I'm just going to use a pick tool. Just get in behind here and slide that little lock piece off. Slide the button off. Next, underneath here, I'm going to take a trim tool. Just slide under here. You can use a pick also. Get underneath there. Slide this cover off. Next we're going to take this cover off. Just take my pick tool or trim tool. Slide that cover off. The clip right there and the clip right there. We're going to use a 10 millimeter socket and extension and a ratchet and there's three bolts--one bolt here and two bolts there. Take those out. Might have to hold this handle up a little bit to get this bolt out. Take that bolt out.

I'll just use a magnet. Take that bolt out. Next we're going to take this trim piece off. I'll just use my trim tool. Get behind here and pry. It's just clips that hold this on. Three clips. Hold that on. Next thing you need is a trim tool. There's clips holding the door panel on. Just go around the perimeter of the door panel. Pop it off. Once those are all popped off, you should be able to release right there. We're going to need to release the handle cable right here. There is two ears on the bottom of this door panel so you can put it in the service position so that you can leave it there while you're working. All right, to take this cable off the inner door handle, I'm just going to use some needle nose pliers. Get in there. There's a tab--a couple tabs. You're going to squeeze on the cable. That will release. Sometimes if you twist it a little bit, it helps out. Pull that cable. Slide it off, and then there's a ball on the end of the cable. This is where the two tabs are.

You just need to squeeze these two tabs just like that to release it. Now I can grab the door panel and just slide it out. If you rolled your window down, we're going to roll it up at this point. I'll just take that handle off. Next, we're going to take this inner vapor barrier off or installation off. I'm just going to slide this. There's some sticky adhesive that is attaching it to the door. Generally, it peels right off fairly easily. Just being careful not to rip this. If it does rip, you can use some tape to tape it back together. I'm just going to peel this the rest of the way off. I'll just get this out of our way for now. I'm just going to take the glass up so that it doesn't fall. I'm just going to use some masking tape. Tape from the outside. Go over the door frame.

Make sure the window's clean too if you're doing this because if the window's dirty, it's not going to stick too well. Normally, I do this about three times. Depending on the tape, you'll do it four times this time. All right. We're going to loosen up the two bolts that are attaching the window to the regulator. We need a 10 millimeter socket and extension and a ratchet. Slide it through this little hole right here. Loosen this up. You don't have to take it out all the way. Just got to loosen it. We'll do the same on this side right there just like that.

At this point, I can grab the crank. You should be able to crank these down a little bit, and that goes down and same with this side. That one went down. So we can leave that there. Take the crank back off. All right. I'm just going to take this panel out just to make it easier. Use a 10 millimeter socket extension and ratchet. Take this out of the way, and I'm going to take these two bottom nuts off. Use the same 10 millimeter ratchet. That one and this one. Next, there's two bolts here. We'll take these two out and then last, these two bolts. I'm just going to loosen them up because there is a hole and they are slotted. So I don't have to take them out completely. This way, the regulator will just hang there when I loosen them up just to about there. Two about there on that one and I can grab the window regulator. Slide in the bottom studs and then slide up to here. Do the same for this one. Slide that in and I can twist the regulator. Slide this out here, twist it, and slide it right there.

To install the regulator, I'm just going to slide this part in first and then I'll take this part and slide this in like that. Get it in position. We want to make sure the regulator is in front of the glass. Put that bolt through that little hole there and then we'll do the same on this side just like that and down below, get that stud lined up. Same with this one. Take those two nuts and start those first. We'll take these other bolts. Get these started. Oops. I'll take my 10 millimeter socket extension and ratchet. We'll start tightening these down. Tighten that down. Tighten this one down, nice and snug. Tighten that one down. tighten this one down and then tighten the two bottoms, snug. Next, we can take the window crank. I'm not going to install it all the way, just enough so that I can turn the regulator so that we can line up the glass with the holders that hold the glass on. Make sure it's lined up properly.

It looks pretty good. Once that's tight, I can tighten up these. Use the same 10 millimeter. Snug. Tighten that up snug, not too tight. You don't want to break the glass. All right, that's good. Now slide this into position. Pull the cable through here like that. There's a hole right here. That door has a pin that goes through there. So get that lined up. That looks pretty good. A lot of times on these door panels, this little bracket breaks off the door panel right here. It's a common problem. It's not something that's extremely crucial for putting the door panel back on. The door panel will stay in position even with that broken. So don't worry about that too much. We can take the door panel. You want to make sure this lock rod goes through that hole right there. That's good right there.

Get this little door pin in the hole on this side. That's in position. Make sure the rest is there. Once all the pins are lined up, you can start pushing it on. I'll reattach this. If you had a foam insulator, you would put that in there now. This vehicle doesn't have one and line these pins up. Lock that in place. We're going to take these two bolts right underneath the handle. Use our 10 millimeter socket extension and ratchet. Just get that one started and then I'll get the other ones started. Snug it up. Then I'll snug up the other one and down below here, underneath the handle, and get this bolt in. We're going to tighten it down. Snug it down.

Take these two covers. This one's going to go down below. There's a little pin right there that goes through that hole so you know which direction it goes. Put that in position. Lock it in place. This one is going to go in this position. There's a pin/little slot there. Lock that in place. All right, now I'm going to install the new crank handle. Remember this washer is going to go on the back side. Just put this into position. Put it on the same way that you took off the old handle. Get it lined up. Make sure it's locked in place and it's good to go. Then we'll take this lock button. Make sure this lock rod is all the way up. We'll take the button, slide it into position, and then push down on the lock part. Make sure it works properly and you're all set.

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