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This actually occurred a couple months back prior to me joining this forum but thought I'd put this write up in here with the hopes that others might find it useful if doing something similar to their NNBS Burb or Hoe....
Most people on this board won't care about this or find it useful most likely but that's alright. Hopefully you find some enjoyment in it and I think it turned out great!!
I'm definitely excited about it so here goes.
Here are the parts fresh out of the box. You're looking at the billet grills to go on the top and the bottom part of the grill housing plus a billet bowtie to replace the gold one on the grill
Before I touched anything. Here is the stock front end (sorry about the dark pic)...
First off, you're going to need the right tools to get to the backside of the grill. On the 07-11 Burbs the bumper cover and grill are all one piece but there are six bolts across the top that you need to take out and you'll need a ratchet wrench and a 10mm socket.
After that you can get your hand to the back side of the grill. The first thing I did was take out the original gold bowtie emblem. You will use the same 10mm socket and wrench to take off the retaining nuts on the backside of the grill. There are two threaded studs that just screw into the rear of the billet emblem and then the nuts just screw onto the back of the grill just like the original retaining nuts did. The threaded studs and nuts are supplied with the emblem.
Just the new emblem installed and pic of the old and new bowtie side by side...
I then moved on to the billet grill inserts. These are pretty easy and I just went with the grill overlays. I didn't feel like cutting my grill up for the other type of billet grill and IMO these look just as good. There is some minor hardware needed. All you need is a screwdriver for this one...
There are holes that the screws go into and on the back of the grill you place the black "plates" and the nut with lock washer to fasten them down. This keeps the grill in place really well. (in some of the pics you'll see some white "stuff" along the edges of the Burb. That's frozen soap because I'd just taken it through the car wash after the install
)
A few weeks ago I also put a billet emblem on the back gate along with removing all the "Suburban" and "LT" emblems (which are on the side of the vehicle). When it gets warmer I plan on taking off the "Suburban" off the doors as well.
Relatively immediate future mods with it include (in no particular order):
1. Lower the rear 2" to level it out
2. 20" rims and tires (haven't picked them out yet")
3. Either LED tails or Yukon style tails.
I'm liking the results
Most people on this board won't care about this or find it useful most likely but that's alright. Hopefully you find some enjoyment in it and I think it turned out great!!
I'm definitely excited about it so here goes.Here are the parts fresh out of the box. You're looking at the billet grills to go on the top and the bottom part of the grill housing plus a billet bowtie to replace the gold one on the grill
Before I touched anything. Here is the stock front end (sorry about the dark pic)...
First off, you're going to need the right tools to get to the backside of the grill. On the 07-11 Burbs the bumper cover and grill are all one piece but there are six bolts across the top that you need to take out and you'll need a ratchet wrench and a 10mm socket.
After that you can get your hand to the back side of the grill. The first thing I did was take out the original gold bowtie emblem. You will use the same 10mm socket and wrench to take off the retaining nuts on the backside of the grill. There are two threaded studs that just screw into the rear of the billet emblem and then the nuts just screw onto the back of the grill just like the original retaining nuts did. The threaded studs and nuts are supplied with the emblem.
Just the new emblem installed and pic of the old and new bowtie side by side...
I then moved on to the billet grill inserts. These are pretty easy and I just went with the grill overlays. I didn't feel like cutting my grill up for the other type of billet grill and IMO these look just as good. There is some minor hardware needed. All you need is a screwdriver for this one...
There are holes that the screws go into and on the back of the grill you place the black "plates" and the nut with lock washer to fasten them down. This keeps the grill in place really well. (in some of the pics you'll see some white "stuff" along the edges of the Burb. That's frozen soap because I'd just taken it through the car wash after the install
)A few weeks ago I also put a billet emblem on the back gate along with removing all the "Suburban" and "LT" emblems (which are on the side of the vehicle). When it gets warmer I plan on taking off the "Suburban" off the doors as well.
Relatively immediate future mods with it include (in no particular order):
1. Lower the rear 2" to level it out
2. 20" rims and tires (haven't picked them out yet")
3. Either LED tails or Yukon style tails.
I'm liking the results
IMO maroon always looks good with chrome 
Maybe I should now update this thread with more recent pics of my front end 
