:thumbup:

 

Did you love that packaging job? Me and him worked like hell getting that thing ready to ship!! What I had always seen was all the plastic was removed and was just the chrome bumper left. :shrug: Thats the way ocboss had his done

 

Yep. Gotta remove all the front bumper plastic.

 

The old man is correct, only the chrome part is left on to install.

 

fucker lol

 

:lol:

 

You can download installation instructions here...
http://www.streetsceneeq.com/instructions/pdf/950-70218.pdf

 

What i did. I Grabbed a long flat head screw driver. Put it between the chrome and plastic and just go to town with it. Your going to break all the brackets.
There is no way in saving them and you dont need them anymore.
There is no need to take off your grill. I did because i drilled a screw and put some 3M double sided take so the bumper wont rechape .

 

You could also take off the bumper and remove the clips and plastic that way you wouldnt destroy them. I did that when I swapped my good plastic from my old truck to my new truck Ive got now. Took me a lil time but it wasnt too bad.

 

You do not have to take the bumper off to get the plastic off. That is if you did not want to. You can reach all the clips from underneath. Since you are lowered you may have to jack it up. Using a pair of angled side cutter pop the push pins out, then with a small pair of pliers squeeze the other clips together and push slightly forward. Comes right off.

 

Why doesn't that one have tabs for the bolts that are by the inside of the head lights?

 

Awesome thanks for the info guys. And the installation instructions Rshadd! Hopefully will get this done today.

 

You need to remove the lower valence and the fog lights....

 

True! I was just saying how I did it. I had my grill off already and had to beat a dent outa the chrome so that was easier for me. Can't wait to see the bumper on the truck!!

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:thumbup: Did mine that way cause did not want to remove the grille. And with the spacers I have in my bumper to raise it, PITA.

Can't wait to see this installed. Now Get Er Done

 

Finally got it installed guys. It took a while to get the clips out but I managed to do it and save all of them in the process!

Not very good pictures but ere it is!

Now just time to get it painted.

 

Looking good

 

looks like it needs to be shimmed in the front under the grille, but looks good!

 

I was thinking the same thing, but I have yet to put any type of hardware or 3m tape on it so I could possibly shim it.

Mostly just waiting to get it painted and get the front grill painted also. Some body shops tell me they can't paint that chrome cross bar for some reason?

 

Looks great! I will be purchasing one in a week or two also. Cant wait to see that thing painted!
:th_woot:

 

i dont see a reason why they cant paint the chrome crossbar its plastic.

 

they probably don't want to prep it...paint wont stick to it without a good prep job.

 

Seems like their laziness costs them money. Is the prep work really that hard?

 

Even prep'd right, the bond still isn't as good as they would like to be able to give you a warranty on it. I've seen properly prep'd chrome still have the paint flake off way to easy and on the front of the truck it's gonna get peppered with rocks and other debris.

 

So even if they took it down to the plastic and repainted it? I guess I just dont understand why they can't strip the chrome from the plastic and then repaint the plastic?

 

For what it would take to get it back to bare plastic, you might as well buy a paintable cross bar. I mean it's not like you can just sand blast the plastic, so they have to remove it all buy hand. If you want to paint your current cross bar and save some money, you could always strip it back down to bare plastic, then they would probably be more than willing to paint it and you would get an understanding as to why they don't want to.

 

Guess your right.

 

get you some white plasti dip and paint it white...make sure you paint it with 3-4 coats of paint and you shoud be good.

it will come off if you dont like it or ever want to go back to stock.

i did the center of my grille with it at furst to see if i would like it...then painted it with black bed liner.