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Chevrolet Silverado 1999 2000 2001 2002 Full Replacement Grille & Headlights - Chrome & Black Housings
 1999-2002 Chevrolet Silverado chrome full replacement chrome grille & chrome headlights (OG-10-15258) This grille shell & headlights is a full replacement bolt on and will replace your entire factory grille and headlights Does not include the lower valance and lower grille Contact us for details 
 1999-2002 Chevrolet Silverado black full replacement grille & black headlights (OG-10-15261) This grille shell & headlights is a full replacement bolt on and will replace your entire factory grille and headlights Contact us for details (714) 956-3801 Chevrolet Silverado 1999, 2000, 2001 & 2002 Full Replacement Chrome Front Grille Shell With Billet Grille or Mesh Grille Installed 1999-2002 Chevy Silverado Chrome Grille Shell & Billet Grille Installed (18-222-1) This is a complete shell replacement with the billet grille already installed Installation time should be 30 minutes or less with no cutting or drilling. Simply remove your existing grille shell and replace it with your new chrome grille shell and billet already to go! ALSO IN BLACK (18-222-1B)  1999-2002 Chevy Silverado Chrome Grille Shell & Mesh Grille Installed (18-222-M) This is a complete shell replacement with the mesh grille already installed Installation time should be 30 minutes or less with no cutting or drilling. Simply remove your existing grille shell and replace it with your new chrome grille shell and mesh already to go! ALSO AVAILABLE IN BLACK (18-222-MB)  1999-2002 Chevrolet Silverado mesh grille (2 piece) Stainless Steel mesh grille (C75701T) Click on the image to SUPERSIZEE!! Chevrolet Silverado 1999-2002 Billet Grilles & Mesh Grilles by T-REX Chevrolet Silverado Billet Grille Insert (7 bars) (20075) Chevrolet Silverado Billet Grille OVERLAY (7 bars) (21075) Same as above grille, but bolt on/EZ install  Chevrolet Silverado Billet Grille Insert VERTICAL (30075)  1999-2002 Chevy Silverado Full Face UPPER Billet Grille Insert without bowtie replaces factory shell (20078) (20079) shown above comes with bowtie tie installed Also shown Top Pad Billet Grille Insert - 1 pc, 3 bars (25075) and Bumper Tow Hooks Billet Grille Insert - fits ONLY Z71 model air dam w/round fogs - two pieces (25072) ***Sold Separately***  ABS Chrome Plated Universal Side Vents 4" x 10.5" (49001) Click on image to enlarge  Chevy Bow Tie - smooth (19075)  Chevy Bow Tie - borders (19076) ****PLEASE NOTE**** Chevy Silverado grilles are also available in ALL BLACK - please contact us for pictures and pricing at (714) 956-3801 This is an example of the All Black Powder-Coated Grilles by T-Rex Please call for pictures and pricing for your make and model at (714) 956-3801 Click to enlarge ***Note*** see below for other products for your Chevy Silverado 1999-2002 Chevrolet Silverado Clear Corner Lenses  Chevrolet Silverado Projector Headlights  Chevy Silverado Running Boards Chevrolet Silverado 1999-2002 Custom Billet Grille and Mesh Grille Install Process (limited)Today, we did a mesh grille install for a customer who has a 2004 Chevrolet. He wanted to change the look of his front grille. The install took us a little over two hours to complete (we made a lot of adjustments to the alignment of the grille for perfection), but it should take no more than 90 minutes from start to finish to install this mesh grille. Please note - the process to install a mesh grille on the Silverado/Suburban/Tahoe is similar to the process to install a front billet grille insert on these vehicles. If you have questions about this grille install or any other billet and mesh grilles we offer, please contact us at (714) 956-3801.This Chevrolet mesh grille we installed today came from T-Rex. (By the way, it also comes black powder-coated!!) It fits on the 1999-2002 Chevy Silverado, the 2000-2006 Chevy Suburban and 2000-2006 Chevy Tahoe. It is a very nice, quality mesh grille and fairly simple to install. (As indicate earlier, this mesh grille install will be similar to the Silverado/Suburban/Tahoe front billet grille insert installation process.) The most difficult part about this mesh grille install was aligning the mesh pieces exactly in the center and installing the mounting parts correctly (really helps to carefully read the directions…AND FOLLOW THEM!). Initially, you have to remove the Silverado/Suburban/Tahoe grille shell. The grille shell takes a good 10 minutes to remove, tops! The Silverado/Suburban/Tahoe front grille shell is held into place by one bolt, four fasteners near the center and two clips on the far outer-sides of the shell (between the headlight and parking lens). The one bolt sits at the top of the grille shell and is easily accessible once you remove the upper radiator shroud. The radiator shroud comes off once you remove those crazy, flimsy factory plastic fasteners. There’s about eight of the fasteners. Use care when removing them because you’re going to use them again when re-installing. Once the upper radiator shroud is removed, everything you need to take off or turn or pull to remove the factory grille shell is easily accessible. The single top bolt comes out with a small socket. The four fasteners need a long, small flat screw driver. You turn each fastener ¼ turn and you should feel the shell break loose from its foundation. Do this to the other three fasteners. The outside clips are kinda hidden behind the front fender. Just a firm grip and yank of each outer shell arm will pop out the outer arms of the grille shell. CAREFUL!! That’s pretty much all you’ll need to do to remove the shell. Take a look at the grille shell pic and you can see what those fasteners and clips look like. At this time, you can clean the front of the radiator/evaporator. Our Suburban had (what looked like) a swarm of dead bees stuck in it. We took a small screw driver and picked out all the dead bugs stuck in the evaporator core. This will affect how the radiator cools the vehicle and how well the evaporator is able to do its job. Once the grille shell is out, place the grille shell on a work bench face down. Make sure you have a soft, clean and scratch-free surface to lay the grille shell on. We used a couple of large towels. This way, when you’re done cutting out the OEM black plastic grille, you can shake out the towels and have a clean, soft surface to work on, once again. Having the proper tools makes this job a snap. Here is where a nice die grinder with a thin cutting wheel or Dremel works nicely. The directions call for applying masking tape to the edges of the grille shell to keep from scratching the chrome surface on the grille shell. But if you use extra caution and take it very slow when cutting the OEM black plastic grille, you really don’t need to mask off the chrome shell. You’re going to need to cut as much of the black plastic grille as you can. The more you can cut away, the easier it will be to install the new grille. Parts of the OEM black plastic grille were removed by pulling on the slots where it was attached to the shell. Some of the attachment points were not melted together by the factory so we could simply pop off the black grille and separate it from the shell. Once you’ve remove the black plastic grille, half of the job is pretty much complete. T-Rex wraps their grilles with miles of plastic for protection during shipping (very smart!) so we had to unravel the plastic from the grille – which wasn’t an easy task since we left the grille sitting out in the hot sun for about a half-hour – the plastic almost heated up and melted into the mesh grille….duhhh……our new location doesn’t have install bays yet. We’re waiting for the building owner to finish our install bays….so now we have to do our installs outside. After unwrapping the mesh grille pieces, we test-fitted the two grille pieces to the grille shell. Each mesh grille piece is a different size. You can’t interchange them. Once we were able to determine proper fit, we removed one of the mesh grille pieces and turned over the grille shell along with the single mesh piece. The instructions say to attach the small studs and brackets first. We attached the small studs to the back of the mesh piece and gently tightened them to the mesh grille frame with a pair of needle-nose pliers. Once the studs were firmly in place (not too tight so it didn’t damage the mesh piece), we added the bracket, washer and snugly tightened down the lock nut. We didn’t want to tighten the nut down completely in case we needed to change the alignment of the mesh grille piece. Next, we fastened the longer studs into the mesh grille frame. This is where we made our mistake by not reading the directions. We just added a bracket, washer and lock nut to the long stud and tightened them down. WRONG! The mesh grille would not align in the grille shell correctly. What T-Rex asks for is to attach the long stud to the mesh frame, run one of the lock nuts onto the stud, then the L bracket, then the washer and top it off with another lock nut. The two lock nuts will be used for aligning the mesh grille frame. You may have to move the frame away from its mounting position by changing the location of the first lock nut. Once you have the mesh frame properly aligned, T-Rex asks to drill a small pilot hole into the grille shell thru the L bracket and run a self-tapping screw into the side of the L bracket. Having the screw in the L bracket keeps it from moving around. This process will make sense if you look at the install pics or the grille instructions. When the tall/long studs were attached and everything was properly aligned, we tightened the small brackets and checked for alignment. Alignment was PERFECT!! Now, wash…rinse and repeat on the other mesh grille piece (just kidding)! You’ll repeat these steps for the other mesh grille piece. This customer also purchased a smooth billet Chevy bow tie. T-Rex also offers the Chevrolet billet bow tie with borders…both look WAY better than the gold OEM Chevy bow tie. And, it blends in nicely with the mesh grille and chrome shell. This is the time to install the billet bow tie….after the mesh pieces are in place. It’s a very simple process to remove the gold OEM Chevy bow tie. There are two one-way clips on the back side that have to be pressed on to remove it. Once the OEM Chevrolet bow tie is removed, you align the billet bow tie and determine which of the two holes on the back of the billet bow tie you attach the studs. We took out the billet bow tie and turned it over and attached the two studs - tightened the studs using needle nose pliers….not too tight…we didn’t want to pull out the threads. Place the new billet bow tie in its seat and put a washer and lock nut on the back of the bow tie to attach it to the grille shell. DONE with that! Before you put the grille shell back on the vehicle, you may want to clean off the bugs, debris and hand prints off the grille shell, billet bow tie and mesh pieces. It’s easier to do it while on the bench versus on the vehicle. Our Suburban had 50,000 miles on it (pretty low for its age) but had a nice bug collection in the cracks and folds of the grille shell. We cleaned it up pretty good before we installed the grille shell with its new shiny pieces into the vehicle. We aligned the grille shell into the front of the vehicle. The four fittings with their alignment dowels were first to go in. It took some adjustments on the four fittings since two of them moved from position after we removed the grille shell. With our screw driver, we were able to turn the misaligned fittings into proper position to accept the grille. With all four fittings in place, we tightened down the fittings by turning each one ¼ turn in the opposite direction when we removed them. Once they were in place, the outer clips went in…by GENTLY pressing on the arms. With the grille in place, we added the single bolt at the top of the grille shell. Next, the upper radiator shroud went on and the eight (or so) plastic fittings were added. Finally, we again cleaned our finger prints off the grille shell and mesh pieces, shut the hood of the Suburban and stepped back to observe our handiwork. Very impressive! What a huge transformation. It looked TIGHT!! This Suburban looked TIGHT! Check out our pictures and enjoy! Make sure you brush after every meal! Again, if you have questions about this mesh grille or any of our grilles and the installation process, please contact us at (714) 956-3801. Please…hold your criticisms of our poor attempts to humor. You May Also Like |
