I did this last night. I went to Lowe's, bought 3 packs of 1"x1" zip tie hold sticky things, a pack of 100 black 4" zip ties, Gorilla Glue, and Premium Hinged Gutter Gaurd (Pack of 5, used 2.5).

I took off grill, cleaned the back of it, took it inside and got to work. I laid out all my squares first, then started peeling off the backing of each square and placed a dot of Gorilla Glue on each one as I laid them down.

I let it set for a few hours as I got called into work, losing all the black plastic rivets that I placed on the engine for safe keeping, then started cutting my gutter gaurds to 14".

I laid down the middle section first, then next ones overlapping, using the zip ties to hold down the gaurds.

Items I used:






Before


After

 

Some advice: I used block zip tie blocks BUT i peeled off the sticky piece on the bottom and used gorilla glue instead. The first time I did this with just the sticky bottom peice it came off, talk about a PITA... however after re-doing it with the gorilla glue its held up great

 

I found that same stainless steel material at Pegasus Racing. I bought the 6X6 mesh screen for about $25 including shipping. I fastened it to the cross member in front of the radiator with aircraft fasterners (clecos) in three spots. You don't have to remove the grill to install, just pull it forward from the top and cleco it in, then push the grill back into position and pop in the six plastic fasteners. Done!

 

Do you have a link?

 

https://www.pegasusautoracing.com/

Look under Hardware , then stainless steel mesh.

 

Thanks for the linkage

 

So I saw this thread yesterday and went to Home Depot after work today to do this to my grille. I had the Rugged Ridge black grill inserts but I got tired of the look and when I saw this thread I was like yes $40 compared to buying one for $200...I'm in.

I bought metal gutter filter, Plasti-Dip spray paint, black zip ties & blocks. I also used alcohol & sand paper on the places I would put the block adhesive at. After I attached the blocks I glued the edges with a hot glue gun for better stick.

I love the look and the fact that my radiator is better protected. Also, it cost me $42 including buying wire cutters.

Pics below of before and after.

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Very nice Foxy. Love the Blue amd Black.

 

Thank you the 1.5 hours was well worth it.

 

Ludski, idk if you used the block zip ties... but if you did peel off the bottom glue piece and use gorilla glue its really strong. I used the original sticky and it came off so quickly. gorilla glue is REALLY strong and you shouldn't have to do it for a while