etrailer | Setting up the Westin Sportsman Grille Guard on a 2003 Ford Explorer Sport Trac
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Today on our 2003 Ford Explorer Sport Trac we're going to take a look at and also show you how to install the Westin Sportsman Grille Guard. This one-piece grille guard offers a black powder coating on a steel frame. The Part Number is 40-0805. This is a very rugged brush guard. It gives a superior protection. It's going to protect from dents on maybe our bumper or our hood, our grill, our headlight areas, just to give us superior protection whether it's from brush that may come up and rub our vehicle while we're offroad or other hazards that we can sometimes find running across the road. You see the smaller bars here. These are going to give us full headlight protection without hampering our headlight performance and they're very easily removable.
On each side here we've got two bolt that are holding this cover in place. If we need to access our headlight, we don't have to worry about pulling the whole brush guard off the front of the vehicle. You'll see here we've got rubber pads that go around the actual push portion of of the bumper. If we need to push equipment around with our vehicle, we will be able to do that and, of course, we need to do that at very low speeds. You don't want to ram enforce anything. You just easily move up to something.
You are able to use this to push items around. We've got a double bar design that's going to be here on the top and gives it a really nice look. The main brace across the middle here is going to provide two areas for us to connect lights. They're going to stay inset just slightly so they're going to be protected as well. Then we have another nice cross tube here on the bottom to give us excellent, excellent strength and durability. This is a really easy bolt-on installation. It's going to come with custom brackets.
Those are going to mount to already existing attachment points on our vehicle. We've not going to have to worry about doing any drilling or any modifications to the vehicle whatsoever. Another feature that's very nice is we're still going to have full access into our under hood area. Our latch is right here so it will be easy to get to. Our hood is going to go up and stay up without any kind of issues or any kind of problem. It closes just the same with no interference, but it does stay nice and close to the vehicle so we're not adding a big three foot attachment to the front of the vehicle or anything.
You see nice close clearances here. We only add to the front of the vehicle what we need. To begin our installation for our grille guard we're going to be taking this panel down here just so we can access our bolt hole locations. We've got three bolts to remove where they're kind of screws here in the front. We've got one, two and three. For that I'm going to use a 5/16". We'll want to come to our frame rail here. You can follow that cover up and over. We've got a couple of bolts here that we need to take out. These have a 10mm head on them. There's one here and there should be one up here a little bit further. As you can see, this one is missing. We'll take out the one on this side and then we'll get the two on this side. Now, with those out we've got a small Christmas tree fastener on each side. We'll get that pulled down and that should allow us to bring our cover down and set it aside. Now we need to get in to the two bolts that are holding our two hooks in place. You see we've got one right here and then one right behind it. We'll need a 15mm here. It's kind of tight but you'll be able to get in there and get to them. These in the back are a little bit easier to get to from underneath. Once we have both bolts out we should be able to slide our tow hook right out of the front there. Just so you know, both of our bolts for our tow hook thread into this nut plate. When we start putting stuff back together we've got to be sure our bolts thread in there. Now, our brackets, these are going to go right above our tow hooks and they're going to be sandwiched in there using our original hardware. One thing I want you to keep in mind is that in the set of instructions that we have they've mislabeled our brackets. They've got the driver and calling it the passenger and the passenger they're calling the driver. What we're looking for specifically is for the side with the two holes to go on top of the tow hook and then we want the side with the three holes to be facing towards the outside of the vehicle. This is the one we're going to use for the driver side. Our single hole needs to be forward. As long as you're doing that you're doing it the right way. We're going to bring our bolt up and through there, get
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I need one for Protection , if I get break check would this be useful and helpful?
Is this the same process for a ford explorer sport trac 2001
will that bumper guard fit a 2009 explorer sport trac
This grille guard is designed to fit the 2001-2005 Ford Explorer Sport Trac. We have the Aries Grille guard available to fit your truck. It looks very similar to that of the Westin featured in this video. Check it out in the following link.
www.etrailer.com/Grille-Guards/Aries-Automotive/AA3059.html
do you think this is strong enough to push another vehicle?
Would this fit a 2003 ford ranger?
This grille guard is not designed to fit the 2003 Ford Ranger. Check out the following link to see the grill guards that will fit your truck.
www.etrailer.com/gguard-2003_Ford_Ranger.htm
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Available still
Check out the following link to see this grille guard on our website.
www.etrailer.com/Grille-Guards/Westin/40-0805.html