How hard is it remove this piece? Does the whole bumper come off?
I was worried about this as well as I couldnt find any info on how hard it was to remove and paint. Hopefully this thread helps others wanting to do the same.
Open your hood and there is like a foamy material air dam type cover over the radiator and top of the grill held in by i think 6 push pins. Pull all those and take that cover off (10 seconds to do). Then take out the 4 screws holding the top of the grill in, all 4 are on top easy to see and are 10mm heads. The grill then has plastic tabs holding it in, 2 on left side and 2 on the right. I just pulled somewhat swiftly on each side of the grill and they popped out. Takes 2 minutes max to remove grill.
Then remove the headlights. Its easier to watch a video on that than to explain. It is not hard at all to do. Just google “4th gen Ram headlight removal”, multiple returns will pop up including videos. Probably what took the longest to remove but still easy once you watch a video on it.
After the headlights are out, the bumper cover has one 8mm headed screw in the front of each wheel well, and then one 10mm headed screw holding the cover on in the inside of the fender below were the headlight was. If you cant find them, you will see them when you start pulling the cover out of the tabs holding it on the truck.
It takes no time to disassemble and reassemble once you do it one time. I could probably disassemble it now down to the bumper in less than 5 minutes, no joke. I took it all apart and removed the cover to paint and then put it all back together minus the bumper cover so I could drive the truck the few days it took to paint and let the cover dry.
Hopefully that all makes sense. I can take pics if you or anyone else wants to undertake this project and has more questions. As i said, its easier to watch a video on the headlight removal than explain it here, but removing them is not hard.
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