My truck didn't come with the chrome package, but I wanted to add a little bit of the shiny stuff.

Butt....I also wanted to debling it a little with black Raptor/Harley taillights and headlights:




You can see above that the door handles were body color, and I scored some OEM chrome handles from another forum member. Below is the handle with the keypad, and you can see that I already swapped the tailgate handle when I installed the keyless tailgate lock/unlock unit last week:




You can see that the ones I got have the black textured buckets/surround piece, and I wanted to mount the chrome handles in my OE body colored buckets:




I searched around and found plenty of info about removing the door panels, but only vague references to removing the pins to swap the door handles, and nothing about removing the door handles from the door.

To start with, I removed the chrome handles from the black buckets:




To do that, there are 2 pins holding the handle into the assembly. I used a large pair of channel lock pliers. Below you can see the pliers by one pin, and the other is at the upper right of the picture and goes through the spring by that orange plastic grommet and 90° to the one by the pliers. They are just force-fit into the plastic and come out easily, but be careful not to break off the tabs:




As I mentioned, there are plenty of threads about removing the front door panels, but I didn't see any specifics about the SCrew rear doors. The only thing different from the fronts are that you need to remove the trim panel you see below - just grab ahold and yank it loose and those metal spring clips will release:




There are 4 screws to remove in order to get the door panel off, and one of them is in the picture above just to the right of my hand. 2 more are at the bottom of the door:




One is under the panel behind the inner door handle - I pulled the panel loose with that curved pick:







The front door has one in the door pull pocket under that square cover, but the rear SCrew panels don't have that:

 

To each their own. PTM handles FTW

 

After unscrewing all the fasteners, like with the front door, you just pull the panel straight up to remove it.

Then I had to remove the door handles.

There are three screws holding the unit in the door. One is under the top round plug on the edge of the door:




And the other two can be accessed through the square hole and the round hole below it:




That releases the handle, but it's still got that hooked rod through the orange grommet - just twist the handle assembly around to get the hook out of the grommet.

Then I removed the pins to remove body colored handle, and installed the chrome handle, and reinstalled everything. When putting the panel back onto the door I found it much easier to get the door lock rod up through the hole at the back of the panel by first removing the black plug. After the panel is back on just pop the plug back in place:




One door handle done, three to go!!




The only one that was different was the left front with the keypad. The lock cylinder was a little more problematic. I pulled a clip that holds the cylinder into the bucket. You can see below that the cylinder is hanging outside the door, but I had to push it back out of the way inside door in order to pull the wiring harness to the keypad loose. To unclip the wiring harness connector I had to reach through a hole on the inside panel of the door:




Overall I'm real happy with the slight amount of chrome I added.

The only thing left is to provide somebody on the forum with the black buckets. There are the four doors (one with the keypad) and the tailgate. I only have the buckets - you'll have to provide your own handles. The best part may be the keypad. If somebody has a bad keypad this might solve your problem. I don't know how easy it would be to retrofit the keypad to a truck that didn't come with it. If you're interested, let me know! I'll post a link here to my thread in the for sale section when I get it posted up.




Here's a link to the post in the "For Sale" section:

https://www.f150forum.com/f59/fs-bla...4/#post2901834


Bob

 

Yeah, I know!! I deblinged the headlights and taillights, but blinged up the door handles.

It's just sorta like my Harleys and Vettes - I feel compelled to do something to them.

I'll sell the black textured buckets and keypad, but I'll keep my Kodiak Brown handles in case I decide to go back to PTM color.

Bob

 

Haha, it's your truck. Do what YOU want.
Good write up though!

 

nice write up!

 

+1 for the write-up. Videos have been released about removing door panels and such, but I was unable to find a section around removing the door handle level from the door handle base.

Thanks again, Kodi!