If you’re a bit of a do-it-yourselfer, you’re likely wanting to handle the vast majority of the maintenance to be completed on your Ford Crown Victoria, but some are more complicated than others and need the removal of body parts or elements to access the part you want to work on. We really want to help you in this operation. That’s why today we are going to find out how to remove the bumper from a Ford Crown Victoria. This procedure is not very complicated and you should have the ability to do it with few equipment. For that, first we will discover how to remove the front bumper of your Ford Crown Victoria, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.
How to remove the front bumper from a Ford Crown Victoria
So let’s start our article content with the front bumper of your Ford Crown Victoria. To take it off, you will just need a set of ratchet wrenches, some screwdrivers and torx bits. Here are the steps you will have to stick to in order to disassemble the bumper of your Ford Crown Victoria in good conditions:
- If you want to be more comfortable, we encourage you to put your Ford Crown Victoria on stands and to remove the front wheels to have a good access to the whole front bumper.
- Open the bonnet of your car: Would seem obvious, but you will need to have access to the bumper attachment in your engine compartment.
- Remove the wheel arches: They’re also named fenders, but they’ll get in the way and stop you from accessing all the screws on the front bumper of your Ford Crown Victoria. Dependant on your motor vehicle features and the year of your model, you will also be able to find staples, to do this, you will just have to use a staple extractor or to do it gently with a big flat screwdriver, and use a lever to open the staple.
- Then you will have to unscrew the screws that is behind your mudguard and that fastens the front bumper of your Ford Crown Victoria 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 under your Ford Crown Victoria to unscrew the bolts that are on the chassis of the motor vehicle, you will find some in the middle of the bumper and on the sides.
- Remember 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 Ford Crown Victoria, to put it back in place stick to the steps in the opposite direction.
How to remove the rear bumper from a Ford Crown Victoria
And now, whether or not the operation is quite identical, we will look at the case of removing the rear bumper from your Ford Crown Victoria. For each step to avoid repeating ourselves we will exclusively give you the broad outlines, read the part 1 if you have any doubts or questions for more info.
- Start with carrying out the same first step, that is, lift your Ford Crown Victoria and remove your rear wheels in order to have an ideal working area to remove the bumper of your Ford Crown Victoria serenely
- Remove the rear wheel arches of your Ford Crown Victoria to access the side bumper side brackets
- Open your trunk
- Remove the side brackets in your wheel arches to make it less difficult to remove the bumper from your Ford Crown Victoria.
- Take out the lower bindings underneath your Ford Crown Victoria.
- While doing so, remember to 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 Ford Crown Victoria, stick to the same technique as for the front bumper
Here, you have seen through these two parts, how to remove the bumper from a Ford Crown Victoria whether it is the front one or the rear one the techniques are essentially the same and it is enough to be careful to make everything go well.
If you wish more guides on the Ford Crown Victoria, go to our Ford Crown Victoria category.
