well this is a common problem based on all the videos on YouTube this is my
2009 f-150 and the fuel door loses this swing mode it just doesn't hold it shut
anymore I noticed it looking in my mirror going
down the road the thing was just bouncing in and out like that so I want
to show you how to fix that but it still uh some not even up yet so I'm going to
drink my coffee and let the Sun come up a little bit let's get some light here
and I'll show you how to fix it all right it's still the Sun still hasn't
come up but I've moved my truck a little bit where some of the daylights getting
on that so here's what I want to show you first thing is this thing here just
pulls right off there's three eight millimeter bolts that hold this on and a
clip behind this that you got to reach underneath here to get to I'll show you
that but let's take this plastic door panel off right now I'm going to show
you how to do that take a flat blade screwdriver stick it in that slot pry
that tab up slide the door off
now undo them three eight millimeter bolts I won't make your watch all this
I'll get these out and then give you a shot and then I'll show you where you
got to press that clip all right I've got three bolts out now I got a reach up
under here and press the tab that's behind this so uh I got a flashlight I'm
gonna get up on there and see if I can show it to you
all right I'm laying on the ground underneath my truck I'm fixing this
slide yep under here and the tab but you need to press in on is right up on that
side where my spot is and I can't can't do this
hold them the camera and the flashlight so I'm gonna have to shut you off and
what you want to do is take your finger up around this edge let me let me just
see if I can
now I'm gonna need I can't I can't I'll have to shut you off but you've got
fingers you can reach up in there and see what I'm talking about so I'll be
back when I get one of them tabs pushed and this thing pressed out some I I do
not know what happened but I recorded the entire repair process in slow-mo
so I'm gonna go ahead and include the clip but you know I have really it's
probably a half hour long so you know it's five minutes of video that's a half
hour long so I don't know how to maybe I can speed it up I'm putting this clip in
just in case I decided to just throw away that clip what I did was pull the
whole pin out take a spring off it just pops right off here this away you just
pull it towards you and it'll pop off this post and then it wiggles out of
here and just pull the whole pin out and it takes a little effort you got a you
know pull it pretty hard to get it out and I took the pin out and I drilled the
pin I drilled the pin with a 5/32 I started with a sixteenth and then I went
to a 5/32 bit and that I screwed a screw I put the pin back in and then I used a
screw and a number eight washer to hold the pin in so now we know it works and
now we're gonna go up to the truck we're back in and I'll tell you this new phone
is this seven plus and I'm still getting used to it I don't know what I touched
what i bunk what I did but if I do decide to put the next clip in it's
gonna be super super slow-mo unless I can figure out a way to speed it up in
youtube editor which I don't think I can so haven't decided if I don't put the
clip in this is you know that's what I did to this if I do put the clip in feel
free to scroll really vast through it or just skip it
so let's go to the truck that'll be the third clip or a fourth clip I did the
best I could yo with that clip it was it was - to upload it it was going to be 45
minutes long and slow mo but there was a you know about a minute or two at the
beginning and a few seconds at the end that for some reason we're not in slow
mo so I've been able to edit out most of the slow mo which you know it's pretty
self-explanatory what I did anybody who's handy with tools could do
it and figure it out it's not complicated so you're not really missing
anything unless you're the kind of person that need your handheld from
beginning to end you know then maybe you don't know how do you say that well
being mean maybe this isn't something you should attempt I will put a link in
the bottom to an Amazon replacement door except for the you know the door that
you take off that's the color of your vehicle but the black plastic unit
that's only 47 bucks so if you take it out and you can't fix it well 47 bucks
you can have a brand new one okay back to the video thanks for watching
all right we're in the shop I can't see the screen when I'm around the other
side here so I'm gonna try to keep things pretty much where it's at here we
are here's the the door just flopping around and this door hinges on this pin
and what's happened is this pin has worked its way up and the teeth are not
grabbing on the pin anymore so what you do is remove this spring you don't have
to take it flip me off it just push it off I am gonna take it
off just so I and I want to pull this pin ours
I think see the grooves that door fits into these grooves what I'm gonna do is
drill the bottom of this pin with I have a sixteenth inch drill bit I'm gonna try
a sixteenth if that doesn't work I've got a 5/64 and a little tiny screw and a
number eight washer Orion okay that's tell you what I'm gonna do I'm gonna
take my Dremel I don't know if you can see but that's sticking out a little bit
I'm gonna knock that off with my dremel all right let's see if this will go in
as easy as it came out
there's this little notch here there's a notch right here right here and there's
this tab that fits into that notch all right slide the dough back on there we
go oh I forgot the bolts I'll put these bolts in and a work done
piece of cake all right that was easy easy fix okay I
was gonna show you the stupid tailgate crap that this pan that covers all the
tailgate guts when you drag something on here catches this lip and pulls it up
see this even this has a lip right here you drag something out of there it pulls
this plastic off and so I've gone in and had to hammer this back flat and put all
these screws in here just to hold this thing together and there's just no
fixing this you just have to lift stuff up over over the table deposit tailgate
lift I'll show you something else that they do that's really stupid behind this
glove box see if like I've done it so many times that they're that white thing
is their resistor that goes into the fan blower and it goes out so many times
that is my fourth one there and
and then there's another thing the blend or actuators
got two of them one way up under here the one way up over here and the top one
opens and closes the blend doors to put air over here to the passenger side and
at the floor that went out and it's a very very common problem it's a very
common replacement and they get about $600 at Ford to replace it and about
$150 for the part if the bottom one goes out it's $1200 to replace it the old
dashboard hasn't come out I replace the top one and I figured out a way to get
to it without pulling the complete dashboard apart I pulled this apart took
the glove backs out and I went up with my very large hand to the blend door and
I managed to get it in there I actually have a video of that maybe I'll start a
Ford repair playlist because I got a lot of repair videos and that's another dumb
thing that Ford did um blend door actuators go out way too often and
they're very expensive to get replaced the part itself is like 30 bucks on
Amazon okay we're not going anywhere no no no we're not going anywhere thanks
for watching y'all