T-Rex billet grille: Truckblog.TV shows you how to improve the appearance of your truck or SUV by installing a T-Rex billet grille on a 2005 Ford F-150 pickup truck.

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My name is Chris Duke and this is truckblog.tv. One of the most common modifications for pick up trucks and SUVs is swapping out the start grill. Today, on truckblog.tv, we are going to be swapping out our stock grill with a t-rex upper and lower below grill provided by Z1 motoring. Let us check it out. Let us pop the hood, and we get started by installing the lower built grill first right down here with this two brackets and a couple of screws. The lower built grill attaches to the stock F150 honeycomb grill right here with the provider however from t-rex which include this screw, his bracket, and there is not and that behind the honeycomb grill. So this side over here is pretty easy to get back there with your hand but this side over here is a different story, because you really cannot get your hand down in there. You can see what we get going on here. And has to go down and contour it off to the left hand side which is pretty difficult so got Jason helping out. Good job, good job Jason, nice work. Thanks to Jason’s help, we now have the lower grill fully installed and now we are going to turn our attention to the big one up here. Using a 10 mm socket, I am going to remove these two bolts which are on both sides and this six, they are along the top. Now, I have got all the knots and bolts removed from the grill shell, now go ahead and remove it, you just lift it up, set it down. Using a torque T20 bit, remove this screws from the metal brackets. We need to remove the honeycomb grill from the surrounding, in order to do that, you got to get rid of these little black tabs here so here is a truckblog tip, get in here with a needle and those pliers and bend that back at which you need to do next. You need to get this white tab off there like that and it is going to pops up from there. Now, we have got all the tabs separated, we can remove the grill from the surround. Well, we can, just like that. You are going to line up the better grill up here with this tabs, this four at the top and we are going to install this bracket here which is going to aid in the reinstallation of our hood bracket, just go on right there. Using a 1/8 inch drill bit, we are going to drill holes through these lower tabs and there is four of them. And I am tightening down the lower brackets where they are going to help out with the lamb bracket. This is truckblog tip number two, go ahead and mount the bottom screw to the hood bracket before putting it up in the air. We take the upgrade grill and mount it back to the hood of the truck, be careful. And like the instruction say, have a buddy help. The reason for our earlier truckblog tip on putting this hood bracket on first is now we have to do is swing it up here to bolt that on. You do not have to worry about putting this on there when it is up in the air. Finally, just tighten up the bolts. Well, we just finished the installation of our upper and lower built grills on our F150, the best part is we get to get rid of this big hot honeycomb mess. For more information on t-rex built grill, go to trexbuilt.com and for more videos, go to truckblog.tv.