Tobashadow
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- Joined
- December 7, 2008
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- 27
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- Location
- East Tenn
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 2002 Sport Trac
- Callsign
- K4TJL
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I just completed this and wanted to give a decent how-to since i don't see one on here going from the top.
Slide passenger seat all the way back there are two 13mm bolt's angled toward the front. Slide seat forward and there are two 13 mm facing upwards under the black plastic cover's on each side. Lay seat back and unplug the gray plug underneath.
This is where i had to change over a bit from the rest, i did the second way. You have two methods to remove the seat, either the T-50 size torx at the end of the seatbelt buckle mount which is very tight and rounded off my torx, or there is two small standard bolt's under where the seatbelt buckle's that remove the bar from the seat.
Now remove the seat.
To remove the door seal there is one screw near the front and one screw on the rear of the door pillar and on my 4 door there was on on the side of the rear door pillar. Just pop it up starting from the front. Now ignore the screw on the A pillar and just pop out the kick panel, there is a small plastic push knob holding it that will pop out.
On the console pull the front black drink holder out by opening the console door and grabbing the back of the black part and pulling up. Now you will see 4 screw's inside, only remove the two nearest the back of the car. Now looking at each side of the console near the rear there is two oval shaped cover's, pop them off the show the 2 bolt's on each side to remove. Slide the driver's seat back all the way and lean it back to get the one's on that side. After removing the bolt's pull out the flip down arm rest to reveal the one screw holding the rest of the console down.
Now pull back the carpet starting from the passenger side corner to rolling it onto the driver's seat.
Now remove the 4 bolt's holding the panel down and use a flat head screwdriver to get the panel to come free.
The easiest i found was to tilt the steering wheel up and lay over the carpet on the driver's seat with a 1/4 rachet and 10mm socket in my left hand and flashlight in my right and you have enough room to remove the heat shield bolt and see what you are doing which is on the passenger side. Then be careful there is a fork shaped bracket holding the modulator held by that bolt also. Just push the heat shield up and toward the passenger side. Now pull the hose and gently rock the old one out watching for the small black pin and then take a q-tip and clean out the hole gently. Now transfer the pin to the new one going in the same direction just to be safe and reinstall it all.
I just completed this and wanted to give a decent how-to since i don't see one on here going from the top.
Slide passenger seat all the way back there are two 13mm bolt's angled toward the front. Slide seat forward and there are two 13 mm facing upwards under the black plastic cover's on each side. Lay seat back and unplug the gray plug underneath.
This is where i had to change over a bit from the rest, i did the second way. You have two methods to remove the seat, either the T-50 size torx at the end of the seatbelt buckle mount which is very tight and rounded off my torx, or there is two small standard bolt's under where the seatbelt buckle's that remove the bar from the seat.
Now remove the seat.
To remove the door seal there is one screw near the front and one screw on the rear of the door pillar and on my 4 door there was on on the side of the rear door pillar. Just pop it up starting from the front. Now ignore the screw on the A pillar and just pop out the kick panel, there is a small plastic push knob holding it that will pop out.
On the console pull the front black drink holder out by opening the console door and grabbing the back of the black part and pulling up. Now you will see 4 screw's inside, only remove the two nearest the back of the car. Now looking at each side of the console near the rear there is two oval shaped cover's, pop them off the show the 2 bolt's on each side to remove. Slide the driver's seat back all the way and lean it back to get the one's on that side. After removing the bolt's pull out the flip down arm rest to reveal the one screw holding the rest of the console down.
Now pull back the carpet starting from the passenger side corner to rolling it onto the driver's seat.
Now remove the 4 bolt's holding the panel down and use a flat head screwdriver to get the panel to come free.
The easiest i found was to tilt the steering wheel up and lay over the carpet on the driver's seat with a 1/4 rachet and 10mm socket in my left hand and flashlight in my right and you have enough room to remove the heat shield bolt and see what you are doing which is on the passenger side. Then be careful there is a fork shaped bracket holding the modulator held by that bolt also. Just push the heat shield up and toward the passenger side. Now pull the hose and gently rock the old one out watching for the small black pin and then take a q-tip and clean out the hole gently. Now transfer the pin to the new one going in the same direction just to be safe and reinstall it all.
