05+ Grill Only Mod

[SteveKran]

I got my grill in the mail today and started working on it as soon as I got home from work. It took me from around 7:30pm-10pm to finish it and have it on my truck. I'm going to write a "How-To" because I took so many pictures as I was doing this. The only tools I used were needle nose plyers and a dremel. I needed a roll of masking tape, and also blue painters tape as well as a sharpie.

Here are the pictures. (There are some before car wash, during car wash {hence the Quadzilla Commander Pictures}, and after car wash). After doing all that cutting and fitting, I was too lazy to wash it myself.

I'll be working on writing up a How-To tomorrow at work.

**What's the best format for a How-To with multiple pictures?**
Would MS Word work?


















































































































































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[mdiesel]

looks good nice work

Matt

[SteveKran]

Thanks


It really wasn't too hard. I could almost do another one with my eyes closed.....not really...


I'm very surprised how smooth it went. Piece of cake. That dremel is awesome!

[sawyer1]

Wow does that change the look of the truck good job man. I might have to start looking for a grill!

[Rescuediver]

Looks good Steve, great pix too...

[matt1030]

Looks great!!!! Good mod!!!!!!

[99PSDF350]

Originally Posted by sawyer1

Wow does that change the look of the truck good job man. I might have to start looking for a grill!

I hope I didnt miss something along the way while reading this post. But you can get an 04-07 OEM tooled grill for a 99-2003 on ebay for $299 + $18 for shipping (Not a cheapy or poor quality) . Thats what im going to do after I get my chip & exhaust. Ive seen a couple, & it looks like it was placed there from the factory, they guys that did these up did a kickass job. If you go on ebay to look it up, just type in ford grill, or ford grill conversion.

Nice job with your grill, looks good.

[TheDurtyDeez]

hey man, i did mine too... i also put the billit inserts in it and new head lights all at the same time, but i just wanted to throw out that mcquires (SP?) quick detailer works good for all that plastic crap. anyone use anything different?

[SteveKran]

Originally Posted by 99PSDF350

I hope I didnt miss something along the way while reading this post. But you can get an 04-07 OEM tooled grill for a 99-2003 on ebay for $299 + $18 for shipping (Not a cheapy or poor quality) . Thats what im going to do after I get my chip & exhaust. Ive seen a couple, & it looks like it was placed there from the factory, they guys that did these up did a kickass job. If you go on ebay to look it up, just type in ford grill, or ford grill conversion.

Nice job with your grill, looks good.

I looked at that and was very close to buying it until I found a used grill for less than $100. With the money I saved I can have a grill AND HID's for the price of the grill on ebay.

I'm just tryin to help some folks save a little money, everyone loves to save money, don't they?

[SteveKran]

Originally Posted by TheDurtyDeez

hey man, i did mine too... i also put the billit inserts in it and new head lights all at the same time, but i just wanted to throw out that mcquires (SP?) quick detailer works good for all that plastic crap. anyone use anything different?

Are you talking about this stuff?