Parts Location: Removal
- Disconnect the battery ground cable.
- Remove the tailgate trim covers.
- Remove the rear wiper arm.
- Remove the license plate garnish.
- Disconnect the high mount stoplight and rear defogger harness connector.
- Remove the high mount stoplight.
- Remove the tailgate glass assembly.
- Use a knife to cut through part of the adhesive caulking material. Secure one end of a piece of steel piano wire (0.02 inches in diameter) to a piece of wood that can serve as a handle.
- Use a pair of needle nose pliers to insert the other end of the piano wire through the adhesive caulking material at the edge of the tailgate glass.
- Secure the other end of the piano wire to another piece of wood.
- With the aid of an assistant, carefully move the piano wire with a sawing motion to cut through the adhesive caulking material around the entire circumference of the tailgate glass.
- Attach some cloth tape (1) on the body for protecting the painting surface.
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- Clean the remaining adhesive caulking material from the area of the body which holds the tailgate glass.