Tailgate & Hood emblem painted

[TophandRam]

Well I remove the chrome Ram 2500 hood emblem inserts, and disassembled them.
Removing is easy use two plastic body panel removal tools, tape around it first a little leverage and the pop out no broken clips.
Using a soldering pencil just melted each tab, and a small flat screw driver and removed the 2500, Heavyduty, and chrome surround.
A little clean up, scuff and shot the parts semi gloss black, left the HD emblem orange..let it all dry then reassemble with a solder iron melt the push in pins, added a row on 3m double sided tape popped them back.
The tailgate emblem, masked it off on the truck. Red scotch brite pad, prep wipe, 3 coats of semigloss black..let it dry peel off tape..
Not perfect but it looks better than the chrome look.

 

[Gondul]

That came out pretty sweet... I don't mind some chrome, but there is just a bit too much with all the badging and was thinking on what to do on the hood emblems and this is great.

 

[TophandRam]

They do sell these all black on Amazon or Ebay I think oem parts but pricey..
I like the DIY for cheap factor, I got maybe and hour and half into this, in hindsight I think I should have sprayed them with etching primer, regular primer and a few coats of satin black out of a paint gun..
But I didnt feel like spending half the day doing all the steps..plus if I get tired of the look I can pop them out and do something different.
Really wanted to create a template out of abs material paint it red stick it in the hole with 3m tape, then get the black cummins turbo diesel emblems and use 3m tape and stick it on their..I may try this in the future..

 

[cmcx2011]

Great work OP!