Front Bumper/Heat Exchange How To

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  1. The Toy

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    Front Bumper Removal.

    Pull ebrake. Place the jack under the passenger side front lift point and raise car high as you can. Place jackstand under frame just incase.

    First remove the splash gaurds in your fender wells, this will be done using a torx and a 10mm. You might think they will be hard to re-install but its not. Next pull the lower splash gaurd off, these are 8mm. The bumper is held on by 6 10mm fasteners. There are 2 on each side and 2 if the front. The front 2 are BEHIND the bumper cover but in FRONT of the heat exchanger. I found the best way to remove these was with a ratcheting 10mm wrench from below the car or from in front of the car reaching your hand around(to do this simply pull out the grilles by yanking hard). Next remove 1 bolt and one nut from each side of the bumper where it meets the fender using a 1/4" drive ratchet with aprox a 8-10" extension with a 10mm socket. Make sure all connectors are disconnected(fog lights, side markers, and temp probe).

    Now its ready to come off. It should rest in place without falling but id get a buddy/wife to help guide it off, one person on each side, just to make sure nothing gets scratched.

    When removing the stock H/E, remember to remove the brackets along with the H/E.

    pictures:http://www.crossfireforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=22326
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    Bumper Removal:

    To make things nice and easy it's best to jack up the vehicle first and put it on stands. Then you can remove the two(one on each side) torx T20 bolts on the edge of the bumper inside the wheel well holding on the fender liner. With those out you can open up the fender liner and have access to the 10mm bolt and 10mm nut holding the bumper to fender on each side. While in there you can easily unplug the sidemarker lights by a simple 1/4 turn of the socket. Then there's 3(one on each bottem corner and one in the center) two piece "rivets" that hold the fender liner bottom edge and main splash shield in place. After those are out you can remove the front lower bumper grilles by simply pulling on them with your fingers or a small hook tool. Once those are off you need a short 10mm socket and ratchet to access the 2 10mm nuts that bolt on backwards through the bumper into brackets on the car. You will not be able to see the nuts and must remove them by feel. Once they are off you can remove the 2 torx T30 bolts on the top edge of the bumper near the headlights and the 4 8mm bolts holding the big front grille on. Once all that is done you can pull the bumper off the car about 6 inches and disconnect both foglight assys. and the ambient temperature sensor......................and you're done. Simple as that. LOL

    Pictures:http://www.crossfireforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=23315
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