i took off my passenger side front door panel to install aftermarket speakers. i got the speakers working but now my door wont lock. i can see the switch trying to go to the lock position but i wont. everything works fine if i have the door panel on the door but not pushed in. what is my problem?

 

Did you reconnect the pins properly to the metal rods?

 

Either clips aren't on right or you bent the metal rods

 

I was asking more along the lines of will i mess up the vacuum that is built up in there if i disconnect the hose from the ball

 

No. It builds every time you start the vehicle.

 

One of the PO's of my cherokee bent the locking rod when installing a door speaker. Took me some finagling to bend it back so that it would lock but I was able to fix it.

 

Andd double post.

I did my front brakes a few days ago, new pads and rotors (plus replacing a seized caliper slide pin). Followed the brake in instructions that came with the pads.

The outer rim of both rotors, approximately the outermost 1/8" picked up a gold color that hasn't gone away. Looks almost like a heat treat. Is this normal? Never done brakes before.

 

I have power door locks but its not locking the doors. I can hear the motor inside the door but it doesn't lock. The only thing that locks and unlocks is the hatch. What's wrong

 

How hard was it to bend the locking today back into place?

 

You jeeps broken. Sell it to me for $400 and youll not have any other issues with it,

But yea, check first if the rods are bent and also you may need to spray some WLG on things

 

I can lock and unlock it manually but just not with power locks

 

It was kindof a *****, took a bunch of tries and a lot of playing with the mechanism to see how it worked and what was wrong. Doesn't take much to keep it from working properly.

Also, don't hand the inside door trim stuff by the lock rods, they CAN bend from that.

 

In my case, the bent rod only prevented one door from locking, the others were fine. You could watch the one that wouln't lock try to lock but not succeed. I also couldn't lock it manually.

Do you hear them try to do anything? If not I would think you had a bad relay somewhere.

 

Yeah I can hear the motor in the door. I'm thinking maybe the need to be greased

 

Sounds, to me, like it needs to be replaced...