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To remove this master window switch, there is a tab that is fitting under the door panel on this side, and there's a clip on this side, so it needs to be lifted up this way first, and then lift it out. I'm going to use this plastic prying tool—you can get these from 1AAuto.com—just kind of work it underneath the edge of the switch. If you need to, you can go on this side, the outside here. I'm just going to pop it up, and then it's going to lift out backwards. This hook here has to come off. Push in the locks, and pull this connector out. And another lock on this side, undo this connector. Take that out.
Then go in behind the door handle, use a plastic trim tool to pop this lock off. Might have to do it with that. Pop that plastic piece out, and put that aside. There's a small push clip. You can use a small flat bladed screwdriver to kind of open it up. Tricky to get in here. So, popped it out, now I can pull the clip out. It should be unlocked, and when I pull the door panel off, it should pop that out.
Remove the Phillips head screw. There's just push clips that are around the edge of the door holding it to the door panel now, so I'm going to hold onto the door and just give it a firm pull. Reach my hand underneath. The top of this door panel kind of clamps around the door panel, so I lift it up and off. Now that clip popped out because it was unlocked. So, we've got the door lock, the cables, going to pop this out and then pop that up. And then, there's another one here. I'm going to pop that off of there and this will pull out.
Take the small flat bladed screwdriver, and pop this lock up. I just had to pry this tab out from underneath this metal here, and that's what unlocked it. I need to remove this clip here and push that off. We'll pull that straight up, and pull the door panel out of the car.
We'll take off this water vapor barrier. You're going to pop these plugs out. You can use a plastic trim tool. You can get these from 1aauto.com. Just, kind of, pop it out gently. Make sure you don't lose them if you drop them.
Unplug the door lock actuator, there's a little lock on the top. Just push it in, pull it right out. And get this rubber plug out of here. Just push that out. About ready to take this vapor barrier off. It's got this butyl tape that's on the backside of it, it's very, very sticky. Just kind of carefully peel it off. Probably want to wear gloves because it'll get all over your hands. And you also at the same time going to guide out this harness as I pull this off. If the stuff is really sticky, you can take a razor blade, and as you're peeling it, just sort of slice the butyl tape part. Try to be careful with the vapor barrier because it's kind of fragile and it can stretch and rip. You want to be able to reuse it. And then guide the harness out of here. Just keep going. Also helps when you do this if it's a warm day.
This butyl tape is a lot easier to work with. Got to get this one out. You want to put this somewhere where it's not going to lay sticky side down. And just where it won't get damaged so you can reuse it.
Use a plastic trim tool or a small flat bladed screwdriver. You can get these plastic tools from 1AAuto.com. We're going to pop out this rubber plug, kind of work it out. Put that aside. We need to remove this actuator rod that goes from the door handle down to the door lock actuator. There's a plastic clip at the top. Going to pull it away with my finger. Slide it open, and it needs to come out this way. If it doesn't come free, then pop a trim tool up behind it, use that to pry it off because it's got a little bit of a lip to it. It'll pop right off.
Then you're going to remove this bolt here and pull the lock cylinder off the back of the door handle. Use the 10 milliliter socket, ratchet, and extension. Careful because the bolt is not captured in there. So it might want to fall.
I'm going to pull the door lock cylinder and bracket off the back of the door handle. You kind of slide it out. And it will just hang loose there. We're going to feed it down through this opening in the door bar when we take out the door lock actuator. This bolt here is holding in the lower part of the window run channel. It kind of runs in front of the door lock actuator, so use a 10 millimeter socket ratchet to loosen. And this way, I can move it around. And it will help me get the door lock actuator out. Just going to take that out and put that aside.
See how this is loose and I can bend it? I'm going to take a Phillips head screwdriver and remove these three Phillips head screws. I'm going to remove this Phillips head screw here. Before I do that, I'm also going to unclip the cables that are clipped into this little plastic clip here. Just push them out. I'm going to use a decent sized Phillips head screwdriver—one that kind of has a flat tip to it. So it fits in there nice and solid. Push against it. Remove the screw and put it aside.
I'm going to remove these three screws over here. Break them all free first. Put those aside. And very gently with my right hand just kind of push. I don't want to push on the tabs inside here, I just want to push in the edge and break it free. And kind of slide it out. I'm maneuvering it around that run channel. We're also feeding the cable down that has locks on it and bracket attached to it and working it through the door.
If you don't undo the lock cylinder from the door handle and let it slide down, you're going to have to work with this very close against the outside door panel, and it's kind of hard to remove. There's actually a tab here that I broke trying to remove it. But what you do is push outward on these clips. There’s a tab on each side. Kind of push it up. And then it unlocks and you can pull this cable out. Now we can slide auto lock actuator out. I've got the window track or the run channel pushed up here. And maneuver this whole thing out of the door. You can take the lock cylinder out now. It's on the end of the cable. Whole assembly. Just to give you a better understanding of how this door lock actuator and the actual lock cylinder and the cable connect, because you need to disconnect them. But when they're inside the door panel, so it's a little hard to see.
So this is up inside the door panel like this, and the cable come down. And this door lock actuator sitting in there, and it goes into here. And there's a little orange piece in there that's keyed for this metal part of the cable, so that actually fits into there. To get it to line up, it'll snap into place. And then the lock goes over. And that holds this in place. Let's see, actually, you have to be careful. See, I just plugged this in. I mean, it'd be easier in the car because this is held in place, but I just did it 180 degrees out.
So to take it off, you're actually pulling on these tabs. Normally, there's a tab here but it broke off. So you actually take and push these two tabs out and unlock it like that. And then you could pull this whole thing right out of the door lock actuator. And then just make sure when it gets installed this is facing towards the door panel. And again, it just pushes in and then clips in place.
So I'm going to reinstall this back in the door panel. All right, we're going to take our door lock cylinder and the cable and feed it into the door panel around this piece of sheet metal here. Can just feed it down and just leave it there until I'm ready to connect it to the door lock actuator.
Going to reinstall the door lock actuator back in the door. Before I get it too far, I'm going to hook up the door lock cylinder cable. All right. Get that locked into place. Slide the actuator up. This screw pod. Reinstall these screws on the outside here. Push up into place from the inside. Use a Phillips head screwdriver and tighten these up. Bring them in evenly. That one tight. Clip our cables back in place. And just push right back in the clip.
Put the door lock back into place, trying to get that tab caught. A little tricky, might have to reach over. Just push against the outside door lock handle. Outside door handle. There it is. We're going to reinstall the bolt.
Reach in with the socket extension and put the bolts in there. Be very careful you don't drop it. You could take just a little bit of this stuff here and get it stuck on the bolt. And it will stick inside here and it won't fall out. Let's find the hole and line it up. Might have to hold this handle on the outside. Just get that threaded in. Just snug it up. We won't have to kill it. Take it out.
Going to take our control rod, push that into the grommet like that and push the lock tab over it. Now it's installed. Don't forget to reset the window run channel that you moved. Make sure it's back in there. Otherwise your window is not going to go up and down properly. Just tighten that down.
We're going to place our vapor barriers. It's got some openings in it for the different cables. Let's do this first. Put the control cables in for the door lock and the door handle. There's another opening here for the door lock actuator. Get that set up. Feed the harness through for the master window switch and mirror control. So those are in place. Just kind of line it up with where it was originally. This stuff is so sticky. Kind of put it back into place. Just go right around the edge. Just want to replace any rubber plugs you took out, that one there. This one goes on this side. Also holds in the vapor barrier. Put this little one back in place. Don't forget to plug in your door lock actuator.
To reinstall our door panel, we'll feed the master window switch up into the opening in the door panel. You're going to get close to the door. You need to reinstall the door lock and the door pull handle. This one with the threads, or the things that look like threads on it, sits in this opening here. You're going to get it pushed into place, and put this lock over. Get that into position. Also, helps to have the window open, as you can see, so you can kind of look through.
Grab our other cable and do the same thing. Push it into the opening, push the lock over, snap that in place and then push this lock up there. Now, I'm going to hang on the edge of the door panel. We'll get that set up first, just like that. Make sure our harness is out here, and we can just push it into place on the clips. Go around the door panel and push it in.
This Phillips head screw with the shoulder goes to the top. There's also a push clip that goes in here. Push that in place. Push the center part in to lock it. Place the trim cap, slide the little hook front part in. That's installed. Then, install this screw.
To install this, plug the large connector back in place. It'll click when it's locked in. Plug this small white connector into here. It'll also click. There's a tab that's going to fit into the door panel on this side first, then a clip that's going to clip down into the door panel. Start by fitting it this way, and then pushing it down into the door panel.
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In this video, I'm going to be showing you how to replace a door lock actuator for one of the front doors on this 2003 Honda Odyssey. We're going to show you the front driver's door, but the passenger's side would be the same. It's the same procedure for any '99 to '04 Odyssey. Tools you'll need: a new door lock actuator from 1AAuto.com, a Philips screwdriver, small and regular size flat blade screwdrivers, 10mm socket with a ratchet extension, some pliers, a short Philips screw driver, a flashlight, and a Philips driver socket and ratchet. You'll see what I mean in the video.
Let's start with a small screwdriver, and if you look into this cup here, there's a little trap door, pry up and you can see a Philips screw there. There would be another trap door here, it's missing on this vehicle, but there's a Philips screw there. Remove these two Philips screws. Then they pull up, and then back, and pull it out and there's two connectors. They both have these little tabs right in the middle top here on this blue one. Press it down. Then this brown one, press down, and pull it out. The door handle pulls forward then out.
Again, there's a clip here on a rod. Just push that clip here with your finger or the screwdriver. Push that clip around, pull the rod up and out, and then there is a connector here, pull that off, and a small screwdriver right up here. Pull this out a little bit. Work your screwdriver underneath to pry it out. Pull that up here at the bottom, and work your finger underneath, and pull firmly. Raise the clips. You're probably not going to release, if the door panel has never been off, it may be a little difficult to release, but release those clips and lift your handle up then off. Your speaker is connected right down here and there are two tabs on each side. Just squeeze the connector and pull it off.
In the upper corner, there's a little plug. Just pop it out with a flat blade screwdriver and then pull your wire shield down so you can access the inside of the door. There's also a small plug on the door to remove. Now, inside, you got a couple of 10mm bolts: one there, one right up here, and then through this hole. We took the cap off. Kind of hard to see it, but if you look in there-
Let's see if I can show it to you. There it is! The 10mm bold there. Use an extension, a ratchet, and socket. Now, I'll just speed it up here as I remove those three bolts. Now, we grab the handle from both sides, on the bracket a little, shift it over. After that, you've got two steps here. You need to use a short screwdriver to remover this Philips screw, and then you just reach in here with your finger or screwdriver, push this clip off, and pull this rod out. Here's just some quick footage of how you pop that clip off. You use a short screwdriver to remove that screw right out and you can see this rod is disconnected.
Start by using one hand on the outside, one on the inside, and pull it forward. Get the top out, and then rotate the bracket up, and keep pushing it out until you can look at the handle right out. Now, use a flat blade screwdriver and disconnect the rod from the door handle. Use a small flat blade screwdriver, and you're going to want to get the bushing off of the rod. You're basically prying apart that bushing and then pulling it also with your fingers until you can get that little bushing off. Now, take that bushing that you removed from the rod and snap it into your door handle. At this point, there's going to be a 10mm bolt down low. Remove that. Reach inside and the window track pulls down, then out.
Then inside there are two plugs. They both have tabs on them. It can be a little difficult to squeeze those tabs. Work them up, down, and pull off and they'll come out. Once you have those unplugged, you'll need a Philips driver bit and a ratchet, and remove the three screws that hold the latch. Okay, and I'm going to apologize, we didn't get the next two steps so as I'm taking those screws out. I'll explain them to you slowly. If you lock button, there is a plastic guide behind it. There's a screw up near where the door lock button is. Remove that screw and then that guide pulls out. Once you have those three screws out, pull the latch assembly forward. You'll see a small orange clip, undo that clip, remove your inside door handle rod, and then pull the latch assembly out. Remove those four screws. I'm going to fast-forward it here. Once you get those off, the white plastic comes apart, and then the actuator pulls off. Our plastic is actually broken so we're trying to show you the best we can how it works, but there's your actuator off.
With the new actuator from 1A Auto, just reverse the procedure. Make sure you line up the other secondary lever on the post that's underneath, and then, start your first screw on that, it connects the lever to the actuator. Once you get that screw in put your shield back on and screw the other three in. Now here, we're putting the latch mechanism back in. Make sure you get your lock button up through correctly on the door, and then get it back into place. Just make sure everything is out of the way, and then you'll pull it back, forward, and reconnect that inside latch rod. Change the position here. You can see, just put that latch right in, lock the clip on, and then push it back into place. Just fast-forwarding here as we work the latch mechanism back in place.
Start the three screws in. Make sure you don't pinch any wires. Make sure all the rods and stuff are on the right place. Start the three screws in and tighten them up with your Philips bit and ratchet. Now, put the guide back up in. You have to put it in place and then push it into place where it connects to the latch mechanism, and then put the screw in to hold it. Then reconnect the two leads that connect to the door lock actuator, and then we'll be ready to test it. Plug in the blue connector and cycle your switch. Now, put your window track back in, look up through the door handle, and you'll be able to see where that window tracks. It slides up into the track in the door. Once you get that place, we're out of focus a little bit there. Just fast-forward here as I put that 10mm bolt in and tighten it up.
Now, start putting the door handle back in by snapping that rod into the handle first. You might need pliers to snap it in. We installed the door with the bottom rear end first and then the rest of the bottom down in. Then you need to slide it so that this will surround the tab in the door. Once you get it there, slide it back and rotate it into place. Now that it's all in, you need to slide it forward to get the two pieces on the back done. It's hard to film so I'm just going to show you where to put this screw back in with the electric connection here, and we're going to put this rod back in, and lock the clip onto it. We'll just keep fast-forwarding until this part.
Now we're in the homestretch. Just use your socket, and we put the bolts into the socket, load them in there, and then start all the bolts on. You want to make sure you start all the three bolts at first and make sure they're going in correctly and then tighten them up. When you tighten them nice and firm, you don't want to over tighten them because you could actually break the door handle if you make them too tight. Then put all the cap back on, and make sure you unlock the door, and then pull shield up a little bit, and shut the door and open it to make sure everything is all set.
I'm just going to fast-forward through putting the door panel back on. It's pretty easy. Make sure you plug your speaker back in, hang the window up, make sure the door lock is through, make sure the harness is through, put the pins in place, and then put the door handle back in place, and the window switch. Make sure you reconnect the window switch. Couple screws to hold things in place, and a couple trap doors, and you should be all set. If you want to see the door handle put back together in regular speed, just check our other videos for the Honda Odyssey door panel installation.
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