Help with removing front grill surround
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From: Globe, AZ
Help with removing front grill surround
Just brought mm Screw home y-day and thought removing front grill surround for billet grill would be a piece of cake.....no way, this truck is just built too good.
I took off the black plastic cover over the radiator, and the screws off the top of the surround, but it won't budge. Looks like there are plastic panel fasteners on front fender and weird-shaped non-replaceable- once-you-break-them plastic things near the bottom.
Does anyone know where the tricks are and how should I proceed?
Thank you
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Supercrew ordered on 8-7, built on 9-13, arrived on 9-27.
**Dealer will install propane conversion, can't take her home until then!
**Silver XLT 4x4, 5.4L: power driver's seat, captain's chairs, lim. slip, skids, tow pack, cage, moonroof.
**Planned mods: 16" Centerlines with 265/75/16 Big O XT's, Waag wheel to wheel nerf bars, billet pedals, white-faced gauge kit, carbon fiber dash kit, Euro tail lights, billet grill, bug deflector, Gray sprayed in bedliner, window & moonroof tint, Glasstite cap?, Pioneer stereo/cd controller, Pioneer 12-disc changer, Pioneer 6x9's in rear, Boston Acoustics comoponents in front, 4-channel amp. & subwoofer from other truck
I took off the black plastic cover over the radiator, and the screws off the top of the surround, but it won't budge. Looks like there are plastic panel fasteners on front fender and weird-shaped non-replaceable- once-you-break-them plastic things near the bottom.
Does anyone know where the tricks are and how should I proceed?
Thank you
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Supercrew ordered on 8-7, built on 9-13, arrived on 9-27.
**Dealer will install propane conversion, can't take her home until then!
**Silver XLT 4x4, 5.4L: power driver's seat, captain's chairs, lim. slip, skids, tow pack, cage, moonroof.
**Planned mods: 16" Centerlines with 265/75/16 Big O XT's, Waag wheel to wheel nerf bars, billet pedals, white-faced gauge kit, carbon fiber dash kit, Euro tail lights, billet grill, bug deflector, Gray sprayed in bedliner, window & moonroof tint, Glasstite cap?, Pioneer stereo/cd controller, Pioneer 12-disc changer, Pioneer 6x9's in rear, Boston Acoustics comoponents in front, 4-channel amp. & subwoofer from other truck
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From: Grain Valley, Mo.
there are also screws in behind the turn signal housings. You have to take out the turn signal housing to get to them
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2001 Supercrew, white/silver Lariat, gray leather capt. chairs, 5.4L, Expedition console, wood dash, cobra hood, billet grill, Ford chrome tube steps, Line-X liner, Magnaflow cat-back dual exhaust w/stainless tips, k/n filter, http://hometown.aol.com/washyourcar/supercrew.html
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2001 Supercrew, white/silver Lariat, gray leather capt. chairs, 5.4L, Expedition console, wood dash, cobra hood, billet grill, Ford chrome tube steps, Line-X liner, Magnaflow cat-back dual exhaust w/stainless tips, k/n filter, http://hometown.aol.com/washyourcar/supercrew.html
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From: Sebring FL 33870
Yeah, I put my grille in my SCrew a few days ago and thought to myself the entire time that it wasn't worth the time. Don't forget the two pain clips that go from the original grille back towards that radiator. Just clip the plastic fastners for those rubber moldings because you will end up breaking the grille if you fight to get them out.