OK, I purchsed new L badges and did the acetone thing (buy the way they look sick)!

I was a chicken sh$t and I did not do them on the truck.
How do I remove the old ones and install the new ones. I want to avoid any damage and just hav'em look gooood.

Let me know what to do here.

 

get some good dental floss and work your away around the emblem, works like a charm then use a good paint safe solivent to take the excess glue off and be shure to measure the hight of each side to be shure the emblems are at the same hight, because once they go on they aren't comin offh

 

I painted a set red to match my truck.
I bought some new ones because I tried to take one off and messed up the adhesive foam on the back.

What I did was take a long bladed knife and slid it in behind the emblems being sure to stay in the foam backing and not get the blade near the paint.
This kind of tears the emblem loose from the sticky part that touches the truck.
After I had enough of the foam cut I was able to pull the emblem off by hand.
I then took some Goof off and cleaned the remaining foam and adhesive off the truck.

The old emblems are pretty much useless after you remove them because you have destroyed the adhesive foam on the back and you really can't help but bend them while pulling them off.
I got them for I think $22 each at the Ford dealer

The process I used to paint mine was this.
I painted the entire emblem, let it dry for 2 days then took an exacto knife and with the back of the blade I chipped the paint off of the letters.
The paint doesn't stick to the chrome letters well at all and it simply chips off but sticks great to the painted part.

If you take your time being very careful while chipping the paint off the letters, It took me an hour or two for each emblem, they come out great.

Hope this helps

 

I just used a plastic putty knife but the fishing wire method works well also.

 

Excellent ideas. I will give emblem removal a try on Sunday.

Thanks a lot for all the ideas.

 

Recommend using a hair dryer or heat gun at low setting to warm up the emblem you want to take off. Again, not to hot as to damage the emblem and/or paint BUT the heat will loosen up the glue on the back of the emblem that affixes it to the truck. After heating / while heating use the fish line under the edges of the emblem,etc to get the emblem free.

 

I wish I know about all these ideas when I was doing mine.