Decided to try some painted bumpers

yeehaw · Oct 9, 2011

i love the look of the harley grills for some reason

jwlandry · Oct 9, 2011

TxFireman1972 said:
Meet at Chilis? lol

Deal

Oh and go with the Harley grill. It will match the wheels. Plus if you switch the badges and along with your black leather, it would be hard to tell it's not a harley.

powr2stroke · Oct 9, 2011

I like the harley grill .

PTSUPERD · Oct 9, 2011

Has anyone ever done a billet insert behind the shell of a harley grille?

I really really want a gloss black billet insert on mine.

TxFireman1972 · Oct 10, 2011

Ok, I ended up with a day off today. The weather was AWESOME!! So I decided to go ahead and switch the bumpers over. Not a whole lot to say. I took the old ones off and put the new ones on lol. While I had the front bumper off, I went ahead and cleaned up the wiring on my HID's for my foglights. It was just kind of crammed in there and zip-tied before. I used some zip-ties to mount the ballasts to the foglight brackets, then I used another zip-tie to pull all of the wiring up behind the bracket. Here's what it looked like when I finished:

On the front bumper, I pulled my upper pad (silver) off of my chrome bumper, and put it in place of the white pad on the bumper I bought. The rear was just a matter of unbolting the old one, taking it off, and putting the new one in it's place. I really like the painted bumpers, now I just need to get a grill ordered. I know, enough chit-chat, here are some pics of the finished product:

SouthFlstrokin' · Oct 10, 2011

looks great!

TxFireman1972 · Oct 10, 2011

Thanks, I really like how it looks. I also pulled the chrome tow hooks off and put some black ones in. Definitely need to get one of these ordered, so I can drop it off and have it painted.

SouthFlstrokin' · Oct 10, 2011

anychance you could take a few pics of how the bumper is put together?

TxFireman1972 · Oct 10, 2011

What are you wanting to see? I can go out and snap some pics of the one I took off.

SouthFlstrokin' · Oct 10, 2011

just the back of the bumper put together. i have my front end at the paint shop and i have the brackets here so i have to put it all together

TxFireman1972 · Oct 10, 2011

ok, give me a few minutes. I'll go snap some.

TxFireman1972 · Oct 10, 2011

SouthFlstrokin' said:
just the back of the bumper put together. i have my front end at the paint shop and i have the brackets here so i have to put it all together

I sent them to you in a pm. Let me know if you need any more.