weaklink

Yeah I did a search....It all says it's easy, blah blah...bullshit! I got everything off but the corners and I can't get to these tiny *** nuts/bolts in ridiculous location. Any ideas. I need pics if you got em.

CYM TKT

iTrader: (4)

front or rear bumper?

weaklink

sorry...front!

Rotary93

there are 3 on each side where the fender amd front bumper go together.......You have to take the inner fender liner out to get to them...

weaklink

Thanks, yeah I could see that from the shop manual, but I took all of the bolts out, but the liner won't come out. It also looks like someone has stapled the liner together?

black99

I believe they come stapled from the factory at least mines that way too. As for the rest of the bolts I can't help you there.

weaklink

ok I can see the bolts, but i can't get a socket on the back side because the bolts are too long. any way to get to the front?

twinturboteddy

If you reove the headlight covers and the black lining, it would help.

weaklink

ok thanks TTT, what holds on the cover, just those two screws at the back?

HUGH

I did mine it was a nightmare. Took 2 people one looking down where the headlightcover used to be yelling left right up down! And me with a socket-ujoint-extension-ujoint-ratchet under the car feeling in the dark. I sweat just thingking about it. Plus carefull how you put the dam thing back on, the studs are pressed in the plastic molded bumper and break out all the time resulting in you not being able to tighten them up again.
GOOD LUCK!!!

weaklink

aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrghghghghghgghg! Well I have to quit for tonight. I'm ready to hook up a chain and pull the damn thing off! Off to home depot to get a deep socket set. $%$*&!

ejmack1

hahahahahaha, i remember takin mine off, i had the headlight covers off, a friend was reaching the bolts from there, well he had his hand down there and i "accidentaly" pressed the headlight switch... can we say stiches .... oh well we got the bumper off in about half an hour, with the wheel liner and wheels on....

rotorhead333

hehe!! What are friends for??!!

martini

You definitely need a deep socket set, and the whole process is a pain in the ***..but it's really not that hard.

I took mine off last weekend. removed the inside wheel lining, deep socket (and u joint) on the 3 bolts in there, disconnected the combo lights. removed the bolts airbox/IC airflow boxy thing. unbolted the catch can, removed all the top bolts there, remove the belly pan bolts, and front lip, and it's off.

I ended up putting a nasty scratch in the side of my car when taking it off though. But the new fron't end I put on doesn't exactly match the paint already on the car, so maybe I'll just have the whole front (or whole car) repainted.

weaklink

Thanks Martini. I still haven't found the motivation to go out there and finish the job. Maybe now I will. Gotta get the deep socket set first. What is this u-joint? I think I can get it with a screwdriver type socket driver. Yeah I will get a total repaint too, to match the hood from atilla, the bumper from rotaryextreme, and to fix the many door dings, etc. Problem is, I don't really trust anyone to do it. Can't paint it myself though! Thanks for the reply.

Robert

weaklink

oh yeah, did the fiberglass shell thingy (front bumper reinforcement) come off too, or just the urethane "skin"? I smacked the fiberglass shell, so I needed to look at that to see how bad it is. Do i still need this with an aftermarket bumper? I also broke the "air guide". I also need to get a screwdriver and straighten out all of the bent fins in my oil and tranny coolers!

ejmack1

you dont need the reinforcement, if you do... i have one for sale

rotary-tt

I got my front bumper off pretty easily. You need a set of deep metric sockets. Pull off the inner fenders and the headlight covers to get to the nuts easily. Pulling the headlight covers off makes the upper nut easy to get to.

weaklink

OK well I got it off!! I did pull the headlight covers and this indeed made it a lot easier to get to. I also used a long flexible screwdriver with a nutdriver attachment to get to the 4 bolts behind the fender liners. All comes down to the right tools for the job, plus the experience of you guys to help. Big thanks to all that responded.

Robert

richjackson7

it you trun the lights up all the way you car reach the two top bolts easier.