Estimate time: 3-4 hours
Tip: Pay attention when removing parts from the car; re-installation will go much faster.
The Procedure:
1. Removing the hood. (take your time and make sure you don’t damage your windshield trust me I did this before and taking you time can save you a couple hundred dollars)
2. Remove the bolts and brackets from the weather guard and all of the black plastic on the bottom of the car. Don’t for get the long piece of plastic right below the radiator there are 3 white plastic bolts at the top of it that you can knock out from the inside. ( these 3 bolts are strong enough to hold the whole front clip on by them self… they had us baffled for about 15 mins trying to think of what else could be holding the nose on.)
3. Begin to remove the fenders by removing the bolts on the top of the fender under the hood.
4. Then make sure you open the door and get the bolt behind side rear view mirror as in exp 1. I’m sure it was a 10mm and you might want to use an extension to. then get the two bolts on the bottom of the fender behind the tire. Right next to the spot where your floor jack goes. Once you do that remove to remove all of the screws/plastic bolts in the wheel well. Now you have to stick your hand under the bumper and unscrew the screws on the wing bracket as seen in Exp 2. (this is why you have to remove all of the black weather guard plastic from the bottom of the car.) After that there is another bolt to remove inside the fender behind the wheel well as seen in exp 3.
5. The front nose is very easy make sure you remove all of the bolts on the top and behind the headlights. Unplug all of the lights and move them to a safe place.
6. There are 3 main brackets that you need to complete the conversions. Make sure you have 2 of each brackets (for both sides); picture above.
7. Now the confusing part is the 93-97 from clips only use on bracket to line up the fender and hold the front bumper cover in place where the 98-02 uses 2.
8. Once you remove the fender you may find out like I did that your car previously had some front end damage with other owners. Lucy it was not serous enough to prevent me from doing this conversion.
9. Once you strip everything down your fenders should look like this. After that you remove the 3 bolts holding on the bumper on each side. (13 mm)
10. install bracket 1 and bracket 2 as seen above… make sure you do not for get the washer bracket the is shaped just like bracket 2 but is installed last once the fender and bumper cover is installed.
once installed they should look like this picture above.
11. At this time you should install the head light bracket.
12. Install your fenders and front bumper cover (make sure you line them up properly) the same way you took off your old fenders and bumper cover. . Then plug up your fog lights and amber signal lights and test them.
13. Then install head lights and hood.