On the beltline chrome trim that wraps around the body....I got a putty knife. You can pry from the bottom in an upward motion and usually it will snap off of the clips. I wouldn't worry so much about the clips either. I bought all new ones from a local part / paint supply house that were around 20 bucks for all of them, i'll check to see if I have the part #. Jeff's wants like $2.00 -$3.00 per clip. The paint supply house has them cheap, so go that route. After getting the trim off...I just pushed out/ drilled out the remaiing clip so that I had only the trim clip holes now showing. They are ready for new clips now after painting. There were two or three different kinds of clips on the belline trim, some for the edges, some for the tailgate ends and others that were used all over . I just went back with the (little airplane propeller) shaped ones everywhere and they worked 100 %.
The Sport Emblems you can easily pry off starting at top and then a little at bottom and so on. They are held on by small barrel clips I got from Jeff's this time. Couldn't find them locally.
The windshield and hardtop chrome/ aluminum trim pretty much just pulls right out if you are gonna remove it. If you do remove it...You need to install it back in the rubber twindow trim before putting it, and the glass back in. I have found it almsot impossible to just pull the trim out of the rubber, and then put it back in. It is shaped like a "J" and hooks on there .
The Door Window trim is a big pain in the ass. looks like you can just pry open those little folded over aluminum pieces, but if you've already tried to get the trim off...you know this won't work. I have taken abot 3 sets off so far and none have been easy. I used a 3" metal putty knife to get mine off. Its all about prying a little and them twisting a little, prying some more. I also used a small 1" putty knife to slide under the parts that I had started to get off, while I carefully pryied some more. Once you get it off, even if you booger the edges up a little...you can pyut them back on(after painting) and hit them with a rubber mallot to make the pry marks go down.
The grill letters have barrel clips, which twist off like a nut. Be careful not to twist them to hard or the pins will break off.
The grill chrome/aluminum trim is a little tough too. If you can...tape it off and paint around it. But if you must take it off you can try and get to the nuts on the back side of the grill. You will have trouble getting some of them off, plus..it is tight behind there. I did mine with the grill off and just broke the clips off and replaced them with clips from Jeff's(fairly inexpensive for the grill clips) The tril clips slide into the trim channel and you can slide them over wherever you want to meet up with the pre-drilled holes that are already there. Let me know if you need any help, or if anything doesn't make sense.
Good Luck and let us know how it goes,
Hope that helps,
Blue71
