grille mod; '93-'94 series 4x4 grille

[racsan]

took a $12 shet of expanded metal and put it behind the grille of my truck, got done late last night, will put in today and get a installed pic. Before pic;

after pic, before install;

 

[racsan]

grille back in;

 

[john112deere]

How did you attach it to the grille?

 

[surewhynot]

No chipmunks were harmed during the installation of this grille mod.

 

[john112deere]

The more I look at that, the more I like it. Probably not so much with the push bar, but it might look kinda cool if you painted it body color, too.

Would think it would work just as well on a gen-8/9 style fullsize grille, too.

 

[tomtoc]

Would think it would work just as well on a gen-8/9 style fullsize grille, too.

...thinking i'm going to try this - i'll post pics if i do.

i've got a gray/white f150. do i do black, shiny silver (chrome looking), or white?

 

[O'Rattlecan]

silver if you can pull it off, otherwise black. I took the gen 9 grille and spray painted the grey part a glossy black. It looks tons better.

Ryan

 

[sicktight722]

looks good man.

 

[racsan]

didnt realize i wasnt subscribed to this thread, its attached with 3 #10 bolts, you can kind of see them in the picture, 1 center lower, and the top has 2, 1 under the first "4" (in the "4x4" molded into the grille) and the other on the top is about the same distance from the edge as the other top bolt. in addition to the 3 bolts i sanded the inner flange, put fiberglass repair cloth around it, laid in the grille (which has the ends bent to meet the inner flange) laid more fiberglass cloth over top of that, and poured fiberglass resin over the cloth/screen/stock grille flange assy. heres a pic, kind of difficult to see, hopefully its understandable.

and i took another today with the sun out. i really like it now, should have done this awhile ago!