citycrawler
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I'm making this post to share my process in dismantling the grill on my new 2024 Sahara 4xe. Based on other posts here, and my own experience, this process on the 2024 grills is more difficult than the models before and there are a lot of questions. Hopefully me writing this out can be helpful to someone at least until someone makes a video about it.
I did this to remove, plasti-dip, and re-install the silver grill inserts that come with the Sahara. I had watched several videos about doing this on other grills, and I didnt realize until i started taking mine apart that it is much different:
- The grill comes in 3 large pieces: The outer one that is body-colored, the middle piece (silver in my case), and the black inner piece. The innermost piece is no longer in small sections that can expose the middle piece as I expected, but now is one large part, which requires the whole grill to be separated. This means that several clamps, clasps, and metal rivets need to be removed.
- The metal rivets themselves were the most difficult aspect, and I would not have been able to do this unless i had a friend that lived close by me with an electric saw to remove them. The rivets are not designed to be reused so you will need to find a way to replace them after you get rid of them. (perhaps with smaller push screws)
Becuase of the rivets this process is a lot more difficult it seems for the 2024 grills than the models before so be warned.
Here was my process:
Like I said the rivets are not designed to be reused so you may want to replace them with smaller push pins / push screws like the ones holding the grill to the body on the top.
Sorry i couldnt be more helpful with a video. I hope this helps someone in the future trying to do this. I was hoping this took me a couple hours and it took me all day.
I did this to remove, plasti-dip, and re-install the silver grill inserts that come with the Sahara. I had watched several videos about doing this on other grills, and I didnt realize until i started taking mine apart that it is much different:
- The grill comes in 3 large pieces: The outer one that is body-colored, the middle piece (silver in my case), and the black inner piece. The innermost piece is no longer in small sections that can expose the middle piece as I expected, but now is one large part, which requires the whole grill to be separated. This means that several clamps, clasps, and metal rivets need to be removed.
- The metal rivets themselves were the most difficult aspect, and I would not have been able to do this unless i had a friend that lived close by me with an electric saw to remove them. The rivets are not designed to be reused so you will need to find a way to replace them after you get rid of them. (perhaps with smaller push screws)
Becuase of the rivets this process is a lot more difficult it seems for the 2024 grills than the models before so be warned.
Here was my process:
- remove the grill from the car as you would with previous versions. This includes removing the push clips from the top, and pulling from the bottom to seperate the grill from the body. (there are many videos on how to do this). If you have a front camera, before you completely remove it fromthe car, you will need to unscrew a couple of screws from the inside of the grill to free the camera, and seperate the camera's washing hose by pressing on a silver section on the hose.
- once the grill is separated and face-down you will need to remove
- the silver screws along the top of the grill openings
- several black metal clamps aroud the light areas ( I pried them open with a flat head)
- several white plastic clamps towards the bottom
- the rubber protector at the top (remove it from the plastic anchors in the top of the grill and then pull the anchors out)
- The rivets at the top of the grill holding it all together (I had to use a small electric saw for this. It wasnt pretty)
- then you will need to work on seperating the innermost piece from the outermost piece by pulling several plastic tabs to the side that are locking it in place.
Like I said the rivets are not designed to be reused so you may want to replace them with smaller push pins / push screws like the ones holding the grill to the body on the top.
Sorry i couldnt be more helpful with a video. I hope this helps someone in the future trying to do this. I was hoping this took me a couple hours and it took me all day.
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