How to Replace Headlights 94-01 Dodge Ram 1500

This video is brought to you by 1AAuto.com, your source for quality replacement parts and the best service on the internet. This video details headlight replacement on a 1998-2002 Dodge Ram truck. From the video, you will see that this is an easy process. This is also how you would access the headlight bulb for replacement. Hi, I'm Mike Green. Today we're going to replace headlights on a 1998-2002 Dodge pickup. What we have here is a sport model. The headlight procedure for a sport model and a regular model is the same. This procedure takes probably 10 minutes, and it's quite an easy procedure. The tools you'll need are a couple of rags to help protect your paint, a clip tool, or I have a chisel, and I'll use the rags and chisel together to get some of the clips off, a 10mm wrench, and a 10mm socket with an extension and ratchet. First using your clip tool or something to pry and a rag to protect the paint, you remove these three clips holding this gasket. Next, remove your parking light by removing the little screw underneath here, Phillips, and the screw is removed firmly. Now you have three bolts to take out, one here at the front, one down here. This one you can either reach from the top here, or you can reach down from underneath, and one here on the side. You may want to cover your bumper cover just to keep anything from getting scratched. Now that you've removed the bolts, put the rags on to protect your cover, there's a small pin in here that's still holding the light. You can use something to pry on it, and just give it a good quick pry, and then you want to move out and tilt the light forward, and we're not letting the pin get stuck, so you want to tilt the light forward, and at the same time, try to rotate the light forward. Also, now you can see your headlight connections, remove your hull beam, and the light comes right out. Okay, insert the new light by kind of going upside down against the fender, and rotating it in, and then put your finger here to make sure that this doesn't contact your paint, and pull the front out while you slide it in, and push that under. Now it's kind of in place, so reach in behind the hull beam, reach in behind, connect your high beam, and there's a locating pin over here that you want to get in first, and now you can make sure this pin is here, and that initial pin holds it in place. At this point, you can push these pins back in, and now you put your three bolts back in. So now we've got the headlight in, we've got the three mounting bolts tight, clips on, now we're just going to install the parking light, plug in the lamp, and again, make sure this clips in, and this lower clips in, while the locating pin goes into the hole, and just give it a good push, and now finally put in the screw to secure it. Pull the parking light, and your left side is done. This video was brought to you by the folks at www.1AAuto.com. All the parts in this video are available on their website. We hope you enjoyed this, and we hope it helps you with your project. Thank you. 1