Alright, I'm going to make another quick video... and this one is going to be how to remove
the glove box latch from your square body C10 truck.
And it's actually pretty simple.
Once you figure it out...
it took me about 45 minutes to figure it out.
So anyway I thought I would just make a video and save some people some time and just show
them how to do it.
The only tools you'll need are some kind of little...
kind of a sharp, pointy tool.
I've got two here, you really only need one.
Anyway, lets get started.
Ok, I've taken the latch out of the glovebox just for filming purposes.
There was just too much in the way to do this with the glovebox, and this latch still attached.
So what you are going to do, is you're going to start....
it needs to be in the latched position... so that is the latched position right there.
And the key here is this little window right there.
And when I get this mechanism out, you'll see these plunger things.
So the first thing you do is take your little pointy tool, and you stick it in there, kinda
work it forward...
(Didn't get it quite all the way).
Actually what you can do is twist it... there.
See it comes out just a little bit...
and then...
I have to set it back up like that so I can twist it.
Now you see that other little brassy colored looking thing in there, that's what you want
to see.
Take your plunger tool again... your little sharpie tool, stick it in there, push down
on that, and then the whole thing comes out.
And this is what we were pushing on, here's the first one... there you can see it's spring-loaded,
and there's the second one.
And that's what we were pushing in on with the little pointy tool.
Depressing that, pulling it out just a little bit, then it catches on this second one, pressing
that one in, pulling it out the rest of the way.
Then, so you got this piece out, this is still attached to your glovebox.
And I think there is a special little tool for this cause it's a hex shape on the inside,
but I've just got this finger-tight... and this just comes out like that.
It's just a little retaining nut.
Just comes out like that... and there you go.
You've got your glovebox latch separated.
So... that's really all there is to it, and then installation of course, is the reverse.
You get this connected to your glovebox door, then you take your little tool... and make
sure that the little spring loaded little tabs are on the correct side.
And you stick it in there.
The first one will go in kind of on it's own... and then the second one you want to come in,
depress it a little bit.
Really you need to lift up on the actual latching mechanism.
See if I can hold this with one hand... push in on it.
Sometimes it helps to rotate it... there we go!
Yeah, just rotate it a little bit.
Now it's in the latched position.
Let me get my finger out of the way so it doesn't get smashed.
Twist it.
And there you go.
So that's all there is to it, and I hope this helps.