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RC Bumper Conversion / The
First Step
continued.
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The
first step you'll want to take is prepare yourself with all
the tools necessary. As some of you might know, the great
thing about nuts and bolts on Toyotas is that the most common
are 10mm, 11mm, and 12mm. Be prepared with a few socket wrenches,
rachets and a "breaker" bar of some sort.
Next
you'll want to flip your lights in the on position and remove
the positive battery cable. This will make things alot easier
and will prevent injury to your hands from the lights possibly
retracting and smashing your hands.
Removing
all the goodies like the carbon fiber grille piece, the radiator-hood
latch cover and the corner lights. This will expose All the
necessary bolts you need to remove.
You
can't see it on this shot but if you follow the bar where
the bolts need to be removed to either side of either fender
there is another bolt thats holding down the bumper. Take
these bolts off and the splashguard below and the plastic
lining thats bolted on to the stock crashbar and you are in
business.
Sure
everything would have been a breeze if it weren't for these
annoying screws that did not want to turn. This is the plastic
lining that is screwed onto the stock crashbar. So after trying
to pry them out and yank them out the solution was obvious.
If nothing was working they'd have to be cut.
And
so a factory box cutter was used to slice the lining and muscle
it out of there, finally releasing the bumper. Now the with
the bumper off and the crash bar exposed on to the next step.
A
few people have successfully intalled the bumper with the
stock crashbar. This was not the case for me so I had to remove
my crashbar. You'll have to get creative when removing the
bolts on there because they are quite tricky.
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