Lsot

Well here's my first attempt at a write up.
Hope it helps someone out.



Taking the grill off is very easy, without doing ANY damage.

The black pegs that hold the grill on DO NOT NEED TO BE DAMAGED to remove.

Here's how to do it.

1. Pry the center peg up(I used dental pick) it only needs to come up about 3/8 inch.
2. Then pry the whole plug out(done)
3. The bottom of the grill needs to be pulled out in a forward direction
4. Then Lean the grill out to disconnect the signal lights(one will be easier to unplug, do that one first)

Now you've got the Grill off take it to your workbench.

Now to start manufacturing the Mesh.

Parts list:

1. Aluminum Gutter Guards(Lowes)
2. Loctite Gel Epoxy(Lowes)

So the Gutter Guard needs to be ripped to width and cut to length.
Ripping on the table saw is possible(Aluminum).
Then cut to length on the chop saw.


This can be a little painful.



They get a little bent up from the cutting, I straigtened them up on the vise.



Here's the blanks ready to go.



I bent them using the vise.



Here's the two prototypes I came up with.



I highly recommend making prototypes, as it gives you a chance to get the kinks out.
I went with the square ones as the bending process took forever and the square looks good from the outside.


Now to the attachment, I used Epoxy.



I used a motor for weight to hold them down while epoxy set up.



And here's the finished product.





Notes:

Make sure you get them all facing the same direction.
If you look in the pic below you'll see the far one is opposite.



May have to change that later, I guess I'll find out how good the epoxy holds.
Did this MOD a week ago, totally love it.

coastguardjeeper

looks great. good write up.

HELLBENDER-JK

Well done!

kaptkrappy

This can be a little painful.



I know, I think I lost a pint of blood. I used the same material except I cut mine with tin snips and epoxied zip tie blocks to the inside of the grille like most people do. I hope the epoxy alone works, it's so much simpler.
Great job, Great write up
.

Lsot

The pictures don't really show it to well, but I put epoxy all the way down both sides.

I pushed on them the other day and they're rock solid.


Thanks for the comments.

n8turgrl

Nice job!! I've been looking at doing this mod to my Jeep so your write-up will help! I think I want to paint mine black though, wonder how well spray paint will hold up??

Remington19

Nice work, let us know how the glue holds up.

scooby snacks

Looks good!!

Lsot

And you survived the crash ??

Sorry about the Rubi, those pics are hard to look at.

onecrazyfuq

only part your missing in your writeup is the dimensions of the grills that you made. cheers to the good write-up, im working on mine as we speak. Ill post pics of them when there done. Im doing mine in gloss black.