If you’re a bit of a handy person, you’re quite likely willing to handle most of the service to be done on your Chevrolet Suburban, but some are more challenging than others and need the removal of body parts or components to access the part you want to operate on. We really want to help you in this process. That’s why today we are going to discover how to remove the bumper from a Chevrolet Suburban. This task is not very challenging and you should have the ability to do it with few tools. For that, first we will discover how to remove the front bumper of your Chevrolet Suburban, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.
How to remove the front bumper from a Chevrolet Suburban
So let’s commence our article with the front bumper of your Chevrolet Suburban. To remove it, you will just require a set of ratchet wrenches, some screwdrivers and torx bits. Here are the guidelines you will have to follow to be able to disassemble the bumper of your Chevrolet Suburban in good conditions:
- If you want to be more comfortable, we encourage you to put your Chevrolet Suburban on stands and to remove the front wheels to have a best access to the whole front bumper.
- Open the bonnet of your vehicle: Seems evident, but you will need to have access to the bumper attachment in your engine compartment.
- Take off the wheel arches: They’re also referred to as fenders, but they’ll get in the way and prevent you from accessing all the screws on the front bumper of your Chevrolet Suburban. Depending on your automobile features and the year of your model, you will also have the ability to find staples, to achieve this, you will just have to use a staple extractor or to do it delicately with a big flat screwdriver, and use a lever to open the staple.
- Then you will have to unscrew the screws that is at the rear of your mudguard and that seals the front bumper of your Chevrolet Suburban on the sides.
- Unscrew the screws or remove the clips on the upper part of the bumper in the engine bay.
- Now it’s time to go beneath your Chevrolet Suburban to unscrew the bolts that are on the chassis of the automobile, you will find some in the middle of the bumper and on the sides.
- Make sure to disconnect the connection of the plate lighting and the distance control sensor if you have it.
- Carefully remove the front bumper by first unclipping the sides. If it doesn’t come off, you perhaps forgot a screw or a clip. Think of using a carpet or other to prevent that it gets scratched by touching the ground.
That’s it, you’ve seen all the steps of how to remove the front bumper from your Chevrolet Suburban, to put it back in place follow the steps in the opposite way.
How to remove the rear bumper from a Chevrolet Suburban
And to conclude, regardless if the procedure is quite identical, we will look at the case of removing the rear bumper from your Chevrolet Suburban. For each stage to avoid repeating ourselves we will exclusively give you the broad highlights, read the part 1 if you have any uncertainties or questions for more info.
- Start by performing the same first stage, that is, lift your Chevrolet Suburban and take off your rear wheels to be able to have an optimal working space to remove the bumper of your Chevrolet Suburban serenely
- Remove the rear wheel arches of your Chevrolet Suburban to access the side bumper side brackets
- Open your trunk
- Take off the side brackets in your wheel arches to make it less complicated to remove the bumper from your Chevrolet Suburban.
- Take out the lower bindings underneath your Chevrolet Suburban.
- While doing so, make sure un plug the rear license plate light and the reverse radar sensors if you are equipped with them.
- Unscrew the top brackets from the top of the trunk.
- Now all you have to do is remove the rear bumper from your Chevrolet Suburban, follow the same operation as for the front bumper
Here, you have seen through these two parts, how to remove the bumper from a Chevrolet Suburban whether it is the front one or the rear one the ways are more or less the same and it is enough to be meticulous to make everything go well.
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