1997 Jeep Laredo bumper removal help

[skygunbro]

Hi all glad I found this place hopefully someone can help me.I recently bought a really nice 97 Grand Cherokee Laredo and i had it about a month and my son bounced it off a telephone pole.it was a low speed impact but enough to mess some stuff up.
I bought another whole jeep for parts the snag I'm running into is how to take off the steel bumper,I see 2 large bolts through oval openings that need to be taken off but where the bumper ends at the edges it appears spot welded to a little piece that comes off the frame,so do i have to break these spot welds to remove the bumper to replace it?
Thanks in advance for any help.

[skygunbro]

Awesome thanks for all the tips!...............:mad:

[skygunbro]

seeing how no one reads this or what noobs write then you wont see the following...lick my big fat hairy gelatinous festering pus filled fecal caked anal cavity.

[mon_21]

LoL...... I'll pass, and since I don't drive a ZJ n I don't know if your talking about the front or the rear steel bumper, only thing I can do to help is this....

http://www.jeep-club.net/graphics/manuals/62/ezg_13.pdf

Hope you find what you are looking for....

And Welcome to the Garage!

[dfoxfish]

would you know an url address like that bumper thing but for transmissions? I have a 97 grand cherokee limited 4.0 and I need info the TCM. thanks.:D

[mon_21]

would you know an url address like that bumper thing but for transmissions? I have a 97 grand cherokee limited 4.0 and I need info the TCM. thanks.:D


Hold on fox, checking my files for that one..... I just downloaded a service manual for the WJ and I think a 97 zj was included.

Update:

Sorry fox, it only came with the XJ's.....

[mon_21]

Try this link Fox.

https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B370WzecKk5SNjMwYWVkZDktYmE4OS00ZGQwLWIzZ WYtZTU4MjQ4YjJhYzJk&sort=name&layout=list&pid=0B370WzecKk5SYzUxM2RjNTMtYTNmZi00OGIzLTgxMzktM WFlYjkzOTBmYmNl&cindex=24 Just click the Forward/Page arrow till you get to the page you want.

and this is for the rest of the ZJ:
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B370WzecKk5SYzUxM2RjNTMtYTNmZi00OGIzLTgxM zktMWFlYjkzOTBmYmNl&hl=en


Hope that helps, and welcome to the Garage!

[dfoxfish]

whats with these letters, ie: zj,wj. what do they mean?

[mon_21]

Its a Jeep model designation:

http://www.jedi.com/obiwan/jeep/misc/models.html

Click the model style letters to see the difference.

[dfoxfish]

mon 21, I appreciate your help. I've gotten no responses from my posts. the link was for a different trans., but I was able to use it to find my model. I have a 4.0 using the 42RE tranny. thanks again!!:D