If you’re a bit of a handy person, you’re quite likely willing to take care of the majority of the service to be achieved on your GMC Sierra, but some are more challenging than others and necessitate the removal of body parts or elements to access the component you want to operate on. We would like to help you in this process. That’s why in this article we are going to view how to remove the bumper from a GMC Sierra. This procedure is not very challenging and you should be able to do it with few tools. To accomplish this, first we will discover how to remove the front bumper of your GMC Sierra, then how to remove the rear bumper of this one.
How to remove the front bumper from a GMC Sierra
So let’s begin our article content with the front bumper of your GMC Sierra. To remove it, you will just need a set of ratchet wrenches, some screwdrivers and torx bits. Here are the simple steps you will have to adhere to in order to disassemble the bumper of your GMC Sierra in good conditions:
- If you want to be more relaxed, we suggest you to lift your GMC Sierra and to remove the front wheels to have a perfect access to the whole front bumper.
- Open the bonnet of your car: Would seem evident, but you will need to have access to the bumper attachment in your engine compartment.
- Take away the wheel arches: They’re also called fenders, but they’ll get in the way and prevent you from accessing all the screws on the front bumper of your GMC Sierra. According to your vehicle 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 in back of your mudguard and that fastens the front bumper of your GMC Sierra 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 underneath your GMC Sierra to unscrew the bolts that are on the chassis of the vehicle, you will find some in the middle of the bumper and on the sides.
- Make sure 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 quite likely forgot a screw or a clip. Think of using a carpet or other to avoid 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 GMC Sierra, to reassemble it adhere to the steps in the opposite way.
How to remove the rear bumper from a GMC Sierra
And to finish, regardless if the procedure is quite equivalent, we will check out the case of removing the rear bumper from your GMC Sierra. For each stage to avoid repeating ourselves we will only give you the broad highlights, read the part 1 if you have any doubts or questions for more info.
- Start by executing the same first stage, that is, lift your GMC Sierra and take off your rear wheels in order to have an ideal working area to remove the bumper of your GMC Sierra serenely
- Remove the rear wheel arches of your GMC Sierra to access the side bumper side brackets
- Open your trunk
- Take away the side brackets in your wheel arches to make it easier to remove the bumper from your GMC Sierra.
- Remove the lower bindings below your GMC Sierra.
- While doing so, be sure you 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 GMC Sierra, adhere to the same method as for the front bumper
Here, you have learned through these two parts, how to remove the bumper from a GMC Sierra whether it is the front one or the rear one the approaches are practically the same and it is enough to be careful to make everything go well.
If you wish more tutorials on the GMC Sierra, go to our GMC Sierra category.
