jgruberman
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So there's a small background on this before I throw in pics... I started with a 40" LED(they're all LED in this story) lightbar on my front bumper. 
It was great until I decided to install a brush guard and I had to move the lightbar. I built some custom brackets out of steel bar and drilled them into the brush guard so I could still use my lightbar... Who wouldn't?
Then somewhere along the way I noticed two caps in the brush guard and looked on the manufacturer website and realized they were pre-drilles holes for mounting fog lights, KC lights, whatever. So I decided to install some smaller lights there and make sure they were spot lights so I could use them for lighting up specific areas and they rotate side to side.
However, I still had it on my mind from the first relocation that it would make more sense to have it over the roof/windshield and I just so happened to already have the brackets in the mail to me already. I discovered though, that my CURRENT 40" lightbar was too small to fit across the windshield and I needed a 50"/52". So I Amazon'd that too and got it the next day. My buddy and I installed it with minimal hassle despite not having any instructions(which the Amazon listed disclaimed).
I wired up the roof mount bar, and I haven't removed my brush guard mounted bar yet since the plan was to move it from one spot to another. I'm not POSITIVE I'm going to remove it since the brush guard bar is perfectly aligned with rear view mirrors in the event I need to alert someone they're driving slowly or have already pissed me off somehow. HOWEVER, like any reasonable human being... I feel as though there's gotta be some sort of point of overkill when it comes to forward lighting. I very well may achieve that should I decide to not remove the brush guard bar, on top of my HID lights in both projector and fog.
These pictures don't do it a shred of justice, as I think I burned up a few vampires shortly before taking this pic. I also seem to have a level of some degree burning on the side of my body facing the truck in this picture. I had to treat it like staring at the sun, not look directly at it and look through a reflective surface.
Regardless of what I decide to do, I'm very happy with the light bar mounted on the roof and would be happy to help others since I've now been through it... Or any other lightbar related/wiring questions since I feel as though I've reached some level of savant(not really but pretty dang close at this point).
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It was great until I decided to install a brush guard and I had to move the lightbar. I built some custom brackets out of steel bar and drilled them into the brush guard so I could still use my lightbar... Who wouldn't?
Then somewhere along the way I noticed two caps in the brush guard and looked on the manufacturer website and realized they were pre-drilles holes for mounting fog lights, KC lights, whatever. So I decided to install some smaller lights there and make sure they were spot lights so I could use them for lighting up specific areas and they rotate side to side.
However, I still had it on my mind from the first relocation that it would make more sense to have it over the roof/windshield and I just so happened to already have the brackets in the mail to me already. I discovered though, that my CURRENT 40" lightbar was too small to fit across the windshield and I needed a 50"/52". So I Amazon'd that too and got it the next day. My buddy and I installed it with minimal hassle despite not having any instructions(which the Amazon listed disclaimed).
I wired up the roof mount bar, and I haven't removed my brush guard mounted bar yet since the plan was to move it from one spot to another. I'm not POSITIVE I'm going to remove it since the brush guard bar is perfectly aligned with rear view mirrors in the event I need to alert someone they're driving slowly or have already pissed me off somehow. HOWEVER, like any reasonable human being... I feel as though there's gotta be some sort of point of overkill when it comes to forward lighting. I very well may achieve that should I decide to not remove the brush guard bar, on top of my HID lights in both projector and fog.
These pictures don't do it a shred of justice, as I think I burned up a few vampires shortly before taking this pic. I also seem to have a level of some degree burning on the side of my body facing the truck in this picture. I had to treat it like staring at the sun, not look directly at it and look through a reflective surface.
Regardless of what I decide to do, I'm very happy with the light bar mounted on the roof and would be happy to help others since I've now been through it... Or any other lightbar related/wiring questions since I feel as though I've reached some level of savant(not really but pretty dang close at this point).
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