Replace Lift Gate Tail Lamp Assembly

[SilverRaven]

I have been looking all over for instructions on how to replace the Trunk Tail Lamp Assembly on the lift gate. Does anyone know where to find the manual or have a video or other type of instruction set to remove it?

 

[cpb406]

Although I have not done this it seems pretty straight forward. According to the Manual there is a "Service Hole Cover" on the inside of the lift gage. Remove it and you will see two nuts and a connector. Remove the connector and then the nuts. Evidnently, there are two brackets that will also be loose at this point. Pay attention to how they go in. The light assembly is now able to swing loose from the inside toward the outside as it is captured by a lip on the edge of the lift gate sheet metal. Make sense?

 

[table5511]

Its really easy. I took off my gate tail lamps a couple months ago during a routine wash, to try and get the crud out of the edges of the lamps (to no avail, thanks to ford design fail where the inside edge of the lens is just small enough where a q-tip won't fit inside the lens seam). Just pop off the gate interior trim piece in back of each lamp, look inside there and you will be able to figure it out. Took me like 1 minute to remove each tail light off the gate.