OK for the next step you will need to mount the grille less bezels and re assemble your buckets and mounts with bulb also, gather your drill, drill bits, reamer bit, paint pen or soap stone and those bezels.

Here are the coming issues 4 I believe to get it done 1 is the adjuster closest to pass side on both buckets will need a hole drilled in rad support to pass through 2 is the screw that holds the tension spring may hit depending on its length you can replace with a shorter screw grind it or drill pass hole its up to you,3 is the drivers side bezel will need to be trimmed to allow for that same adjuster that needs to pass through support but don't stress you cant see trim job when mounted 4 is the marking of your bucket mount tab holes on the rad support to bolt things up,

take the bezel and slide it up your and then get a hold f the headlight assembly guide the assembly through opening in grill its a bit of a angle and rotate thing to get it in there hold it as centered in hole as you can and slide bezel down your arm and into place best you can , were not looking for perfection yet, all will not fit together due to adjuster just holding things in place with hands to mark pass hole now, center light in bezel best you can and press on bulb assembly and wiggle a bit to get the adjuster on the pass side to leave a mark on the support, this is where you will be drilling the pass hole, remove bezel and bulb assembly, I removed grille and drilled a hole at point that adjuster marked rad support made the hole about 1" or so for wiggle room.

drivers side

I did the opposite of you when I took my round headlight buckets off and took a spot weld cutter to the tabs on the bucket to leave the core support hole free. Only one or two of mine had two spot welds. It looked like the first one hit the edge of those tabs so the did a second one to make sure it stayed put.

I was thinking of going that way also but decided to go through the back since I'd be drilling mounting holes in both bucket mounts and rad support it was kinda a toss up. I got the buckets painted and final mounted today lifes good

OK next you will do the same hold in place and mark but this time mark the mounting holes you drilled in bucket mount once done dis assemble and drill

at this point I noticed the tension spring retaining scre hits a bit and just ground it down a little,

ground down

re fit and space

getting close

from here it is shimming to the depth you like and aiming the bulbs so I think you got it from here best to have your adjusters in the middle of the adjustability while shimming so it gives you an idea where your at and allows you full adjustment for fine tuning, This is my first how to so sorry if its not the best a least it is an idea on how to attack the grille swap.

Nice work!

The green paint comes off with paint thinner woo hoo I was kind of worried about using stripper, time well spent.

Great job! Looks awesome!

How about a picture of the grille with the green removed? Would like to see how it looks.

I'll post a pic with green completely off soon as I remove it all, the paints been a good scratch barrier while working on truck.

Did you ever get all the paint removed from the grille?

Been working at it a bit need to polish it yet

cleaned not polished