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I want to paint my front tow hooks (how).?

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#1 ·
Ive checked tge threads and couldnt find it. I want to take off the the front hooks, get my color DCR in a mopar paint rattle can and spray them. Inspired by the 10A, off course. Anyway any suggestions on removal of the hooks.
 
#2 ·
Take the bumper off, the hooks just slide out of the bumper once loose. Sand them up, throw some self etching primer on, and paint away.
 
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When a person has tow hooks, the bumper cover cannot be removed without removing the entire bumper. This makes the process a bit longer. For this reason I used painters tape and newspaper and painted my tow hooks in place. When I paint my wife's tow hooks I'm going to budget time and remove the bumper as a learning experience.
 
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The same reason we bought vehicles with very little purpose or benefit besides going offroad: Because we f*cking wanted to.

So yes, I painted mine body color because it looks cool. But if anyone paints theirs red I think that will look great because the 10A already proved it...
 
#11 ·
I think I was that member. To take the bumper off, get under the jeep and take the 8 nuts off of the tow hook bolts and disconnect the dog lights. Then, you will be able to pull the bumper and the plastic outside off, but don't yet. There are 4 hateful plastic screws that I ended up beating out with a hammer that hold on the "skid plate" that must be removed. Once removed the bumper assembly can be taken apart. There are only 4 bolts holding the metal part to the plastic part, take those out and the metal bumper can be removed and the tow hooks taken out of the holes. To put back together, just reverse the steps, and BAM it's a completely new look haha. When you paint them just make sure they can dry completely because the plastic will rip any paint it touches off when you put it back on, I let mine dry for a day and a half and it still wasn't enough. I used rustoleum professional grade spray paint and primer. Sorry for the bad pictures my iPad doesn't take good ones...
 
#19 ·
I don't have any tow hooks to paint... I feel so left out, but my D rings show a ton of wear from use on the trails and not from hitting a few grocery carts that got in my way...

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#20 ·
I like it!

Are you going to do the rear hook as well?

Maybe I'll hit mine up with some plasti-dip. I almost wish the 10A's didn't come with red tow hooks because that is the color I would go with.
 
#24 ·
I love the idea! Once I saw the 10A. I bought hood decals for the arctic with orange outline with the idea of painting tow hooks orange.

Is it best to remove bumper or leave on and paint with bumper covered.
It comes down to time. If you got it then definately remove the bumper. No matter how good you are at taping, etc, its so easy to accidently get overspray on the jeep.
 
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#31 ·
I plasti dipped my front and rear tow hooks this weekend. I used plastidip because I wasn't sure how I'd like the look, plus the stock bumpers only have ~6 months left on my Jeep before they are replaced. The fact that the plastidip may get ruined is fine by me.

I went the route of removing my bumpers to paint the hooks. I had the time plus i used this opportunity to familiarize myself with the assembly of the front and rear bumpers.

I am really starting to love the red accents. Thinking of incorporating it more and more with my already existing black.billet theme.



 
#32 ·
I have a winter chill Arctic and ever since the 10A, I have wanted to copy the same look with orange opposed to red. I had the took the Rubi font for the hood decal and outlined ARCTIC in orange. Now, just trying to find the right shade of orange and the time to get it done.

Is there a trick to removing the rear tow hook? My initial thought (have not actually got under and inspected it yet) is there is just a couple of bolts to remove and replace--is it that simple?
 

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I don't understand how people act like its easy to take off the front bumper. The two inside nuts on the driver side was almost impossible to get to. The vacuum pump and the cross member get in the way... I cut off my cross member with a sawzall and it made life much easier.

Also the two plastic screws for the top of the bumper did not spin. I didn't strip them, they would not spin. So I just tore it off...
 
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I don't understand how people act like its easy to take off the front bumper. The two inside nuts on the driver side was almost impossible to get to. The vacuum pump and the cross member get in the way... I cut off my cross member with a sawzall and it made life much easier. Also the two plastic screws for the top of the bumper did not spin. I didn't strip them, they would not spin. So I just tore it off...
It takes about 15 minutes to remove and put on the stock bumper. The plastic screws don't spin out. I put a screw half way in and then pull them out with pliers. Unscrew vacuum pump and then everything is fine. I only use a simple socket set to do this plus pliers and screw.
 
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