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Oct 29, 2003 | 07:07 PM

DustyRd

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Door panel removal

Well, I put a dent in the bottom of the passenger door from 4wheeling and I need to take off the door panel to get in there to fix it.. I thought it would be a piece of cake but I dont see any fasteners and I dont want to pull too hard. It looks like it should just snap out? If it snaps out, will the fasteners break or can they be reused?

Oct 29, 2003 | 07:16 PM

umdstang

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Hi and welcome

Check out this link. It is for a speaker installation but it describes the door panel removal.

https://www.ford-trucks.com/articles/speaker_inst.php

Brian

Oct 30, 2003 | 04:23 PM

DustyRd

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Thanks! Now I can see exactly what I was doing wrong. I just knew it couldnt be THAT hard! Just have to be a little smarter than the door panel I guess.

Oct 30, 2003 | 05:06 PM

umdstang

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no problem

Oct 30, 2003 | 05:18 PM

Torky2

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I took the drivers door panel off of my '97 so a paintless dent repair guy could press out a small dent. I wanted to do the removal and replacement myself, so I'd know it was done right and the watershield was put back properly. On mine, there were two rivet-type of push pins at the top of the panel, one towards the front, one towards the rear. The rivet-type are not reusable. I measured the hole diameter, and was able to get a couple of regular black plastic Ford type push pins at a hardware store.