professor229
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Good morning...... I am nearing the end of the paint prep (wish the MN weather would cooperate!!!!) and have removed as many peripheral items as I can... headlights and tail lights, cyclops light and there isn't much else.... all in an effort to avoid taping...... The one item I would like to remove is the door window trim black piece... I watched a "how to" video and although I learned a lot, the guy essentially destroyed the trim piece to remove it with a plumber's slip lock plier (grab and yank!)..... In the discussion below the video, he listed the link to new pieces... $85...Another guy listed $23 from the dealer.... .. and that is not going to happen on a $500 truck.... So I am interested in ideas of how to remove those two trim pieces (see attachment red square) and salvaging them to put them back on after paint..... I am toying with the idea of using my thin bladed paint scraper putty knife.... and sliding that up and then tapping this trim piece up as everyone suggests..... Does anybody else have another idea or should I just try to tape these two molding off carefully, leave them on, and paint around them which I am also going to do on the Ranger logos and the door handles..... It is a concession I am willing to make but thought I would run this by everyone to get a second opinion...... suggestions welcome and appreciated..... PS... The local U Pull It Parts had a 50% off sale a little over a week ago... last one of the winter.... so I paid my $2 and went for a walk with a wheelbarrow to look at the five Rangers they had in stock, two of them were new to the lot that I had never seen before... Got two wheels with nice all weather radials, a like new plastic door panel for the passenger side, a new tool set to lower the spare tire unit, and two decent enough headlight assemblies ($$$$) all for $80.... and spun the wheel of fortune for a free gift and got 15 free entries to the yard good for a year...... Demounted the tires.... prepped and painted the rims..... mounted and balanced the tires and slapped them on the Ranger and also removed the two bald tires and mounted two decent enough tires from my Kia Forte.... installed the plastic door panel with a little argument (I won but still don't know how or why) and had to use a headlight restore system on the lenses of the two used headlights and will have to splice these wires in place when the time comes...... but it sure saves on buying all new sockets... (the old ones were cracked and/or broken/or corroded) pricey devils.....
Any help with the removal of those window trim pieces so they can be re-used would be appreciated..... Thanks again... Dennis
Any help with the removal of those window trim pieces so they can be re-used would be appreciated..... Thanks again... Dennis
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