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Open the hood and locate the negative battery cable. Follow it to the battery and remove the retaining bolt securing the cable end to the battery terminal with a wrench. Lift the cable off the battery and set it aside.

Locate the bolts on the top section of the radiator shroud that secure the upper and lower halves. Remove the bolts with a socket and ratchet, then lift the top section of the shroud off the bottom section and remove it from the engine compartment.

Place a spanner wrench with a pin adapter on it between the fan and water pump hub. There are four holes in the face of the water pump hub. Slide the two pins on the spanner into two of these holes.

Grasp the fan blade with the opposite hand and spin the blades clockwise while holding the water pump hub with the spanner. The threads are right-handed, so turning it clockwise will loosen the blades.

Caully lift the fan assembly out of the engine compartment and store it in an upright position so the silicone gel inside does not leak out. Remove the spanner from the engine compartment.

Open the hood of the Dodge Dakota after making sure the interior headlight switch is in the off position.

Approach the headlight assembly that contains the faulty headlight.

Remove the rubber gasket seal from the inside edge of the headlight assembly by unsnapping its retainers.

Locate the retaining screw at the lower junction of the corner marker lens and headlight assembly and remove it with the T-10 Torx head screwdriver.

Use the screwdriver or pry tool to gently unseat the guide pin holding the corner marker lens and running-lights lens assembly from the truck. The guide pin is located at the top behind the corner marker lens. Disconnect the driving lights and corner marker lights from the assembly by turning them a quarter turn counterclockwise and pull them out of the assembly.

Remove the three headlight-assembly retaining screws with the ratchet, extension and 10-mm socket. One is located on the upper inner corner; the next is located at the lower inner corner, and the last one is located at the bottom center.

Pull the headlight assembly forward enough to reach behind it and disconnect the wire harness plug from the back of the headlight socket.

Turn the retaining ring of the headlight a quarter turn counterclockwise to align the retaining tabs of the ring to the release grooves of the assembly and remove the headlight from the assembly and ring.

Install the replacement 9007 combination headlight into the ring and then into the headlight assembly. Be careful not to touch the glass bulb of the replacement headlight. Contact with the bulb with skin will create a weakened "hot spot" on the bulb and cause it to expire prematurely.

Reconnect the wire harness plug to the headlight socket and reverse the headlight assembly, corner marker or running-light assembly and rubber gasket sealer procedures to restore and finish the job.