Does anyone know how to remove this bottom plastic peice so i can paint it? The peice under the chrome part of the bumper..

 

There's about 10 screws (maybe 8 I don't remember) between it and the chrome trim piece I got to most of them through the wheel well. I painted mine while doing the honeycomb grille, so I had the grille surround out to access the middle screws. You'll have to remove the license plate holder on the bottom, it's just on with more plastic body clips.

 

 

what paint did you use? did you primer and clear coat?

 

I used Krylon Fusion Satin Black and just a cheap poly clear. If i had to re do it, I'd for sure use an adhesion promotor first and a professional clear coat.

 

Yea been there done that..trust me..it's easier to mask the front end off than mess with it. But if you do it, sand first, adhesion promotor, sand, primer, sand, base coat, sand, clear and it'll look great.

 

HockeyfanJeff - You got a pic of your whole truck with that peice painted to see what yours turned out like?

Fordguy24 - ya il paint it just like i did the grille. I just didnt know if i should use primer or not but guess i will now.

Hope to accomplish this weekend. Still gota paint my bed rails and back window trim to.

 

and all back together


Bed rails and window trim really changes the truck


Unfortunately I will have to re paint mine, the Krylon fusion website says fully chip resistant in 7 days... Just my luck the next day we had a tornado nearby drop golf ball size hail and really did a number on it and my newly painted grille.

 

Looks great. Ya im wanting to do all that for mine.

Damn that sucks dude. I live in OK (tornando alley) but luckily havent had one near in awhile. (knock on wood)

Il hopefully be tackling this project this weekend.

Did you take your bed rails off? if so how?

 

Nope I just used a ton of newspaper and masking tape, also sprayed the tailgate handle while everything was taped off. It was a pain in the *** for sure, but it worked out fine.

 

Ya luckily mine has already been custom painted before i bout it so i dont have to worry about that.

What all is done to your truck performance wise?

 

Gotts intake and Amsoil EA air filter, OBX long tube headers, Magnaflow 94106 cats, Magnaflow 2.5" x pipe, running straights right now but thinking of putting the spintechs back in there. PHP gryphon tuner, with custom tunes ordered waiting on stage 2 cams...and just have to figure out how to pass emissions

 

Where did you get your wheels? Did you powdercoat em yourself?

And how much does the gotts intake help out? thought about doin it but dunno really if its worth the time or not.. What do you think?

 

I got em off of craigslist, a guy was cleaning out his garage and put them up there. I took them to a powdercoater and had them done for $300 with a clear coat powder coat on top of the black. The gotts, I'll say hasn't hurt the truck at all. I'm not really sure if I've noticed any gains with it. But it is a cheap way to get a 3" intake that draws outside air from the fender so take that for what it's worth.

 

ok cool.

And ya its not guna hurt it so il prolly do it eventually. Every little thing helps out.