Hi All -- urgent advice needed! Going to a junkyard tomorrow with a "shadetree" to help me pull off a bumper for my Disco.

What tools do I need to take the bumper off? Any other tips or do's and don't's?

I have a bodyshop installing it but do you think that is something that the shadetree could do too without air tools?

I'd hate to have someone hand-tighten the rear bumper and then I look in my rearview mirror on the highway one day and see it in the middle of the road LOL..

Thanks!

 

A good bodyshop would use a torque wrench after initial tightening without even using an air impact driver.

Unless your ST is limp wristed he should be able to do it.
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LOL.. That's too funny! I've never heard that term before "lip wristed".. No he is able-bodied so we'll just have to see. The bodyshop was only going to charge me $60 to remove the bumper and put the other one on so I think that's a good deal to ensure experts handle it..

I might wait and see how easily he pulls off the one in the junkyard. If it's a smooth process I might let him put it on as well..

 

Me neither. Edited my initial reply.

Many folks over tighten and a few limp wristers under tighten.
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Lip wristed = a lower lip that quivers.

If you found a shade-tree then you found your tool.

And that girls, completes todays lesson on quivering lip bumpah tools. (Cue heavy bass beat rhythm, slow fade out).

Standing in the checkout line at Walmart I always wonder what the people are like around me......... not so much now.

 

In my 56 years I've heard of someone described as "limp wristed" or effeminate but never lip wristed.

 

Seems apt for a politician, can shake your hand and kiss your rear at the same time to get your vote.