How to Replace Rear Exterior Door Handle 2007-13 Chevy Suburban

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I'm just going to hit the dome lamp override switch to shut off dome lights, just so we don't run the battery down. Open up your door, and using small flat blade screwdriver or a small trim tool, remove a couple panels: one in behind your door handle—just twist lightly and pull that out; there's one right back in here, right in the middle—pull out and off; then the door lock knob, pull up on it lightly, and try and pry this center clip out at same time. Comes up and off. If you have good fingernails sometimes you can just pull up and off on that. You could also use a trim tool available on 1aauto.com. Put it underneath, pull straight up, make sure you pull up on the front. Somebody was not that careful on this one, and you can see they actually broke off the tab from the trim. Then you'll want to disconnect your power window switch, just a little tab here. Pull and disconnect. Then we'll remove three 10 millimeter bolts: one here and then two down underneath where your door pull is. 10 millimeter bolts, remove them with a 10 millimeter socket ratchet and extension. A lot of times these ones won't come all the way out, and that's okay. You can retrieve them when you get the door panel all the way off.

You'll want to use a trim tool. Once you get in there, you can see in behind there and see where the clips are. Got one here, roughly here and here. Pull out firmly, and work your way around. Then my bolts have popped out here, so I'll make sure I collect those. Once I'm sure I'm all the way around, lift up, and out. Then on here there's a couple of little tabs. I'm going to push the tab, pull out a little bit, twist it around, push the other tab. Push that through and out, and my door panel comes out. You can see there's actually clips on the padding here. It's still clipped on in a couple of spots. Just push those off.

Okay, we're going to remove the outer rear door handle on the Suburban. You could probably do it by just folding this vapor barrier down and getting in here, but we're going to pull it back so that we can make sure you can see it. To pull this vapor barrier off, it's got some butyl tape on here. Sometimes it'll peel off real easily. If it doesn't, I've got a razor blade here to help just cut it off a little bit. There you go. Put this aside so it doesn't get destroyed. Going to remove this rubber grommet with a plastic prying tool. Take our 10 millimeter socket. We remove this bolt that is holding on the door handle. I've got it loose. I'm going to try to take it out without dropping it inside the door panel. There we go.

Now we're going to remove the other bolt that is holding on the door handle. Inch in through here. All right, we've got this one loose. Oh, that one fell in. It landed on the door bar here. Before you take the door handle off, you've got to remove or unhook the clip that's on the actuator here. It's this yellow-ish, orange looking clip. Cut a little tab. Take a small, flat bladed screwdriver. Push open. It'll pop off. Now we can go to the outside of the door to remove the door handle. With the bolts and the door lock actuator rod removed, you're going to slide this handle forward. Then we're going to work it out of the door panel. It's going to come with the rod. That's how you remove the handle.

We're just going to clean this up a little bit before we install the handle back. Okay, so you take your actuator rod, you're going to feed it into the door opening. Do a little bit of maneuvering. Might have to open the handle because it'll move. Because it'll move this piece, it'll help you install it. There's some locating pins you're going to find. That's installed from the front. Now we need to put the bolts in and reconnect the actuator rod.

You need to reconnect the actuator rod because it's a little yellow clip. Kind of get it straight up and down. Press the rod in there, and then if you just sort of roll it up and over, it'll clip in. Kind of put a little bit of blue tape on this bolt to help hold it to the socket so I don't drop it. Go through this hole here. Sort of very gently thread this in. This is just a metal insert going into the plastic door handle. You don't want to over tighten these. You can break the door handle. Just as you feel them get tight. Install the second bolt. Just as it gets tight, stop because you don't want to break it. Reinstall the grommet. Now that we're all set working inside the door, we can reinstall the water vapor barrier. Just going to feed the wires through. Sort of find the general area as where it was. The butyl tape on there was still pretty sticky, so just kind of push it back down.

You have these longer, larger basically kind of teeth that hook into the square holes down there. Preliminary line everything up. Just make sure your harness goes up and through, and then reconnect your door handle cable in. and pull it out, push it in.

Again, just make sure that that harness is up through. You want this groove to go into the channel here, so lift up. Lift up, push down, and make sure your door lock is up through, your harness is up through, and then you should be able to see it nice and close to the door. There's a large line of pin up here. Once everything is good it'll go in about that far away, and then you can just set all the pins. You just need a pair of pliers, reach in, bring your lock back up. Put your three 10 millimeter bolts back in. One here, and then these two, and load into your socket. If you put some tape or painters tape on it might help hold them in place. I'll just put those in place. Reconnect the switch, feed the harness down in, and make sure you put this in correctly. Then your three pieces of trim, the one in behind the door handle, snap it in place. This one can just go down in place. This one make sure that the little tab is out. Put it down on, lock into place. That's all set.

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