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Originally Posted by jtman04401
Ok so I have read many people having issues when their door light and or the bell stays on and wont go off. Many people say that if you spray the latches with WD40 or PB blaster it will *fix* it. Well it is more like a band aid not a repair. It WILL happen again. Now I will explain the way to fix these seding units. I will be using the rear lift gate as my example.
1st remove the trim panel from the rear gate.
2nd using a t25 torx bit remove each complete latch assembly from both sides of the lift gate. There are 3 of these screws per side. I take one off at a time so as not to stick wrong one on wrong side.. however it really isnt that complicated if you pull both.
3rd once you have them out you will see an electric sending unit on each latch with a 2 wire connector, remove that. Then if you look closely at where the sending unit slides into the latch.. you will see a plastic backing that has the words "tab" stamped into it. Now... very carefully slide a small screwdriver under where it says "tab" and apply a little preasure upwards, not oo much or it will break. While you have the preasure applied rotate the sending unit clockwise so it unlocks and slide the sender out of the latch assemply. Now if you want to never have the door bother you again... throw these in the trash and put everything back together and you're done. HOWEVER if you want to do it right.. take the sending unit and either replace it with a new one for each latch or use some quality carb or parts cleaner to clean the heck out of them. You will see a small metal sliding switch, when this switch gets stuck IN it causes the door chime and lights to stay on. So clean ittill it moves easily on its own. A few drops or lubricant will help AFTER it is cleaned. After you have them moving freely just put everything back together. I myself also use carb or parts cleaner on the complete latch as well till its totaly clean of all old greese then I spray on some new white lith greese before putting everything back together.
I hope this helps. Spraying the latch with WD40 will sometimes work, however in the long run it will only last a while. The issue is the sending units are sludged up and the more wd40 and such you spray on the more dust and stuff it will collect... making it sludgy and sticky again.
Just clean them and lightly spray them to get them sliding free and then they should last another 50k!
Hope this helps.
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I think this information should be at the top of the forum all of the time. The LeSabre forum has at the top how to program FOBs. I know there are a lot of Fords out there with this problem. Any moderators out there reading this?
Regards
Dan