I changed the rear door actuators on my 2004 Hummer H2. Passenger side first a few weeks ago swap went flawless. I got a refurbished original GM part on Ebay and the fit was like it should. Works fine. Time to do the driver side so I bought a new but not GM actuator also from Ebay. Cheaper and came quicker. Install as the first one. Easy and seemed to work fine until I put the door panel on. I couldn't get the pictured manual unlock bar to seat in the plastic unlock slider. Then I noticed that the bar did not seat right on the retaining clips, and on closer look the bar hardly slid at all to open, although it worked fine. Instead of a side to side unlocking motion, It seems to be on an angle which doesn't seem right. I'm convinced the non GM part just doesn't fit exactly right but wanted to check here first before I get a original GM actuator. Any thoughts or assistance is appreciated.

Kevin

 

First off, your picture sucks! Did you try swapping rods?

 

FIXED!!!!

I took out the new actuator and placed it side by side with my original one. Physically the same. The original is to the right. Looking closer I saw that the nylon bushing for the bar was installed in the wrong hole on the new actuator. I placed the bushing in the right hole and all is perfect. The slider bar is centered between the clips and moves freely.

Hope this helps anyone else,

Kevin