can't seem to find one anywhere, I need the simple black plastic shell, nothing else, no insert, not painted, not chrome. I bought one for my '04 on Ebay for $65 a few years ago. dealer wants $450 for a work truck grille help me out.

 

Will a factory chrome one work? There are aftermarket complete grilles on ebay for $100 shipped. We use them for shells all the time and they fit and look exactly like the factory ones. If you have to have black, the only ones I've seen are the "billet" style with the vertical bars.

 

Did you see MajikMD's Rock build-up thread? Here he strips the chrome off his grill with a slick homemade set-up: https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...t280811p4.html

You could get a grill off of Ebay like Backwoods suggests...strip it and paint it for a reasonable amount.

 

oem chrome grille is cracked, plan is to remove and reuse the oem "billet" plastic inserts and paint a new grille shell red. gotta be black plastic. I bought the exact thing I need on ebay for my '04 and can't find it for my '06. I might just bite the bullet and get a red shell with the inserts already in it but that's not what I want to spend.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/DODGE...ht_5144wt_1165