Hey ya'll, I would like to get rid of my front license plate thing and I was wondering how do ya take it off?? It's on there from the factory and was just wondering what would be the best way to take it off.

Any suggestions???

 

Drill it out. It is riveted to the bumper. its the only way

 

or....remove valence, do hill climb while being unlifted....and it'll come right off and be left up a mountain somewhere. sure...it'll leave rivets there...but you got your job done. then just take a hacksaw to your remaining rivets like i did

 

^^^ that seems like the best plan yet!!! I just used a tree to remove my valance, once it was off i ended up melting the plastic holder while trying to drill out the rivits then I just broke the rivits off. Hill climbs and Trees FTW!!!

 

in other words, the plastic bracket ripped through the rivets, then i took hacksaw to the rivets an removed them.

IF you ever needed to install it again, I used 1/4" bolts with washers and bolted it to the bumper.

 

I think I remember reading a nice HOWTO write up in the howto submission section. Had stuff on how to plug up the holes left by the rivets as well.

 

plasma torch did the job

 

how come this is in the 3.0 V6 TECH section?

 

Because if it is removed the wrong way you can mess up the air flow to the intake on a 3.0.
That means other mods such as recurving the fog filter.

 

oh sorry i forgot. call me the dumbass then. lol

 

just grab it an pull and it will come off

 

Thats odd...mine just had some philips screws. That a newer model thing?

 

x2. That's what I did on my 05.

 

lol
hack saw..

work smart not hard.


thats how mine came off, except mine is a Ridgid.

 

My idea is better, it worked great

 

he's trying to take the plate off, not the hood, grill, core support and bumper..

 

or is he...?

 

you mean she?

 

he...she...

its a learning thread for the whole board.


sorry Amanda.

 

Tha's ok 99ranger4x4, I forgive you this time! It ain't the first time. I love the ideas ya'll, and no, to answer the question I'm not trying to do a sledge hammer mod to my bumper, grill, or hood. I ain't up there yet! lol

I'll try a combo of hacksaw and drill to get it off. Thanks for the suggestions! Even though I've learned a lot on here, I still have questions.

 

the rivet is just gonna spin, thats what i tried.

 

Oh ok. Mmmm...... so hacksaw?

 

go back up to my pic :D dunno if you have one though.

you could try a hack saw, there's less of a chance to f up the bumper if you're not careful.

 

So I would hack between the license plate holder and the bumper? And no I don't have one of those puppies. I'll have to saw it off the hard way....oh well....

 

yea, between the plastic and metal.

its not too hard to hack this stuff off, it may be hard to get the saw in there though.