Hey guys welcome back to the channel. Today we're actually doing an install on one of our most popular products, the door reinforcement plate. We have a few people that ask you know do I really need it or how does it work so we figured while we were working on one of our own projects and we came across the actual notorious door handle problem, we would just go ahead and film it for you and and and show you exactly what it does and how it actually installs. Alright so this is the actual door reinforcement plate and basically this is what you'll you'll see when you get it. It comes with the rivets that you're going to need. There will be tape to it. You'll know if it's a driver or passenger by there's a laser cut, D or a P in the upper corner. Basically this thing I'll just kind of show you how it mounts right quick. It just kind of sits up here like this and all these holes they just they line up with the factory holes. You'll drill these these holes here out to be able to put rivets in it. The reason why we send rivets with it is we've we've run into a lot of cases where we're running self-tapping screws or something like that. The vibration of going down the road actually vibrates this cruise loose. So to us it's just better to run rivets. You don't need anything special just go down your local tractor supplier harbor freight and get you a cheap rivet gun if you don't have one already. There doesn't need to be anything special just something like this just a simple rivet gun. Okay, so I took the rivets off. We're going to set this thing up here and you can use anything from a pencil, magic marker, a pen. I'm going to use a pick just to kind of make me a couple of marks to where to drill. Typically what I do is I'll just, well first of all you got to keep it straight. Typically what I do is I'll just I'll just mark a couple on either side and I'll drill those then I'll stick it up here and rivet it. And then I'll drill the other ones with it in place that way I know that I've got the rivet holes in the proper spots. Again, no special kind of tool just just a standard drill standard drill bits nothing nothing crazy. Okay, so the bit size you're going to want to use is going to be a one eighth inch drill bit. That's going to be the perfect size for the end of this this pot rivet here. I just drilled these two holes here which are this hole and this hole and basically that what I'm doing with that is I'm just going to put this up here and use those two holes to align the actual bracket. I'll drill the other holes once these two are riveted in place and that way we make sure that we don't get the holes off. Start with the bottom one and basically you just want to properly size the rivet head piece. Put the rivet in place and then rivet it in. We'll do the same thing up here. You want to make sure while you're putting these rivets in as you hold some pressure against it to make sure that this plate actually sits flush against the door skin. All right, now that I have those two put into place I'm going to go ahead and drill the rest of these and then we'll put the new pieces in. All right, I know there's some of the stuff out there that's going to want to try to skimp and not put all of these rivets in but it's very important that you put them all in. The reason being is if you think about it every time you get in out of the truck you're talking on this plate here and you're going to eventually break these small pop rivets. That's the reason why there are so many in this plate. All right, so that's what it looks like with all the rivets in place and it actually mounted to the door. You can see the thicker steel that's used here for this reinforcement plate will really help make this handle a lot more rigid. Now we're actually going to mount the handle lever back to the door and grab the cage nut that came out of the door and the bolt. So essentially we're just going to spread this out this a little bit to make it work a little, I think it's slide on there a little easier per se. You can pretty much do this, pliers or a screwdriver or just anything you can get some leverage with. Not too much, just a little bit, make your laugh a little easier there. All right, then you're going to want to just line it up. Now this tab here is actually going to slide into this hole so you're going to come over here, slide it in, just kind of bump it in place a little bit. And you're going to put your bolt in here. And on this particular truck it's an 11 millimeter, I have seen some that are eights. All right, so that's mounted to the door and then obviously all we've got to do now is just mount the door handle to it and just mount it right back. Like it was from the factory, just like that. This bolt here is typically an eight, sometimes it's a 10, this one here is an eight though. Some people put this on before and some people put this on after they put the door kind of on. I'm doing it now before just to kind of demonstrate the actual added rigidity of this reinforcement plate. Now if that's snugged down, basically now no flexing. A lot of people think it's this cable that gets bad or maybe freight on the inside, but typically it's just that this thing is flexing so much that it actually can't pull the cable properly. This door actually didn't want to open well and I never really paid much attention to it just because it's been a project truck up until now. So this fixed it. All right, well this is the actual install product. You can get a real good idea of exactly how this helps. You really put some leverage on this now and it doesn't flex at all. So thank you for viewing our videos and if you like these, please like and subscribe to our channel. 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