I bought some rims from a guy a few days ago and noticed his F150 emblems on his 2000' Supercrew were solid chrome. I asked him where he got them from and he said, "What do you mean?" and I said, "Your emblems" and he said, "No, those are factory" and told me how to go about doing it. He said to take fishing string and put it between the fender and the logo and pull it through, but I tried that and the string ended up breaking 3 or 4 times before I took a long skinny flathead and removed them. I have them sitting on my desk and I took "carberetor cleaner" and sprayed them down and it removed all of the black paint around the F150 logo. They're all chrome now and look good.

Anyone else know about this?

 

Alot of people have been doing this, and some are using acitone. Looks good.

 

I tried doing it with the emblems on the truck, but I got nervous that some of the cleaner might run under the tape and end up damaging my paint, so I pulled them off., but yes, they do look good.

 

I started doing mine cause it started peeling but it was a pain so I just told the dealer to replace it while doing my oil change.

 

mine took about an hour for all three of them.

I'd post a couple of pics but I dont know how(they're in my gallery though)

 

Once you get them off, how do you get them back on? Double sided tape?

 

hey, i pulled the emblem off of my left fender because the fender is damaged, i was using the emblem as a test subject. ive tried acetone and carberetor cleaner and neither of them seem to be working. any suggestions?

 

The acetoning doesn't work on some of the 1998 and earlier models. You've gotta buy the new emblems from the dealer. Some trucks even have mismatched (old and new) emblems.

 

Mine were miss matched on my 99. The passenger emblem was black under the black paint so had to buy a new one.

Acetone works great, just have to be patient. It will end up looking like this.




Sled...

 

Sled, if you take the emblems off, how do you get them back on?

 

well crap. i wasnt wanting to have to go buy new ones. im pretty sure its chrome under the black, because the back sides of them are silver. but i guess ill just have to go buy new ones.

 

ANYBODY I have been wondering the same thing.

 

Out of all of the "ACETONE" posts, I have NEVER seen how to put the emblems back on. Most people just put tape around the emblems and do it with them on the truck, but that scares me.

 

Well if you dont have to take them off, its best not too.
3M does make automotive grade double tape if you did.

The 2 I left on and acetoned, I just waxed all around the emblem, taped of the paint and took my time wiping the black paint off.
The only reason I removed one was it was black and not chrome.

Acetone will not harm your paint if it is not left on for a long period.
The main reason for taping off is to make sure you dont get any of the black from the emblem on your paint.
After I removed all the black from the emblem, I removed the tape, washed the area well and applied wax.

Sled...

 

The correct way to reattach them I believe is to use an emblem adhesive, 3m makes one, my local auto parts store (Murray's) carries it.

http://products3.3m.com/catalog/us/e...er/output_html