I removed the front and rear bumpers so that I can clean them up, address any dents, and send them off to be re-chromed.
The front bumper is mounted on a pair of steel brackets that project from under the body. Four 9/16" bolts connect the bumper to these brackets; two on each side.
I used some Liquid Wrench on the bolts but one of the bolts got bound up toward the end and I rounded the bolt's head. Eventually I was able to twist it off using a pair of vice grips. With those bolts removed the bumper came free.
The rear bumper has a license plate light mounted in the center. The light has a chrome cover plate on top that I removed by taking out the two philips head mounting screws (below left). From underneath the light was mounted with two 5/16" nuts. Also there were two electrical connections, one one a ground. I disconnected both wires (visible below right).
Then I was able to pop the license plate light up and off the rear bumper. The bumper itself was mounted with similar 9/16" bolts to those on the front bumper. In the rear there were three bolts, left, center, and right.
With the bumpers removed I could see that there was a considerable amount of surface rust on the inside, particularly of the front bumper.
I removed the overriders, which were attached each with two 1/2" bolts.
