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Paint and Body 90' GT Front Bumper Cover Repair

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Calgary351GT

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Hi All. I'm planning on doing some repairs to my front bumper cover.
I'm having trouble finding anything online in regards to removing just the bumper cover . Do I have to remove the entire bumper assembly to do this?
Thanks!
 

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You can remove just the bumper cover with the headlights attached.
Pretty simple if you study it a bit, two L bracket bolts up top on the core support.
Remove fog lights , a few bolts down the left and right side where it meets fender spats (guessing this is a GT )
you can get these from under the car reaching up, there will be some small reinforcement plates that these bolts pass through.
Then some screws across the underside center of the bumper
and you should be ready to slide it straight forward and out. Oh yeah, unplug headlights before removal .
 
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No need to remove fog lamps to remove a GT front cover. Save yourself the time, they are kind of a pain to align if removed
 

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BlakeusMaximus said:
No need to remove fog lamps to remove a GT front cover. Save yourself the time, they are kind of a pain to align if removed
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Good point on the fog lights you're right, I was thinking when I removed my bumper cover I removed the fogs but that was
because I changed to LED bulbs.
 
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Thanks! Ironically, I just put the headlights back in...Used to have cheap HID one piece (big mistake). Put the factories back in. Not sure what was in my head changing them in the first place.
 
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