Mac book Pro Repair: Replace Keyboard & Touch Pad

[Note: disassembling Mac Book Pro requires specific tools and much more patients.]

This is a 2008 Mac Book Pro (Warranty expired). Dropped to the stairs by the customer. Screen and HDD are okay, but the touch pad cracked and "SDFGHJKL;" on the keyboard didn't work.

Time to work.

Open the back cover

Layout of components

Dusts at outlet

Remove the battery. Now I can access the touch pad. But for the keyboard, more work must be done.

Hitachi HDD

Disconnect all cables

Remove speakers.

Remove DVD-ROM

The mother board.

Need to unscrew the screw to remove this triangle.

Tiny x86/x64 mother board.

The keyboard is behind this plastic mask. This mask is used to reflect the keyboard LED back light.

New keyboard & touch pad from eBay.

Ready.
Lots of screws to work.

They are very small, tiny. Be careful.

Due to there are various types of screws. I wrapped them in paper and draw an assemble map.

There is a small gap on old keyboard panel while the new one doesn't. A grindstone can fix it!