Emergency lights

Fallz · November 21, 2011

Anyone have emergency lights mounted on their truck . Whether it be a full / mini top bar , strobes , leds , act ...

I also one saw on here there was a mounting plate that went into the stop/bed lamp area with a plate for mounting a mini light bar , but I can remember the name of it . I think it began with an "A"

Patch6713 · November 21, 2011

Anyone have emergency lights mounted on their truck . Whether it be a full / mini top bar , strobes , leds , act ...

I also one saw on here there was a mounting plate that went into the stop/bed lamp area with a plate for mounting a mini light bar , but I can remember the name of it . I think it began with an "A"

I have some lights on my truck. I used the Back Rack to mount the bar light and have some in the grill. I didn't want to mount anything to the roof so that's why I used the Back Rack. For some of the lights I used the switch that is mounted in the cab from the factory (with the plow prep I believe) and others I have separate switches.

RockySierra · November 21, 2011

Pat, can you get me some more photos of your back rack, lightbar, and the mounting to the backrack?

Thanks

Patch6713 · November 21, 2011

Pat, can you get me some more photos of your back rack, lightbar, and the mounting to the backrack?

Thanks

This is my overall setup on my Back Rack. The LED lights half way up that are towards the sides are amber for plowing. The are connected to the upper amber light. Their power comes from the factory switch and I ran the wires out through the third brake light. The blue light gets its power from a separate circuit and has a switch box in the cab. The wires run through the cab and exit through the cab vent. The run up the left post on the Back Rack up to the light.

I had a bracket welded on the Back Rack for the light bar. The are just quarter inch steal cut to the size of the feet of the bar. They got welded on and then I drilled out the holes for the bolts to go through. This was originally put on my other truck, and I moved it over to this one, so it has been about 5 years with no problems at all.

The upper amber light is wired in with the lower ones. It is made up of a piece of quarter inch steel that was bent at a 90 degree. Then a plate was welded onto that that the magnetic light sits on. I attached the bracket to the Back Rack with...electrical tape. When I put it on originally last year it was right before our first snow storm. I didn't really have anything to attach it with so I just taped it on temporarily. The tape held for that storm, and the next, and the entire winter. Only recently I needed to reattach it because it was coming loose, so I used some new tape.

These LED amber lights I got from a friend of mine. He got about 20 pairs of them for $5 a pair on Ebay, so i bought a set. Then I just used some silicone and stuck them on. I used some tape to hold them overnight until they set up and they have been great ever since.

RockySierra · November 21, 2011

Fantastic, thank you for that info. I have a full sized Whelen Edge 9000 (actually 2 of em) and I intend to mount one to my truck, but need to find me a good headache rack that looks good on a red truck, and then I will mount the lightbar to that. I'm also going to put in some yellow and clear strobes in the taillights and headlights.

Patch6713 · November 21, 2011

Fantastic, thank you for that info. I have a full sized Whelen Edge 9000 (actually 2 of em) and I intend to mount one to my truck, but need to find me a good headache rack that looks good on a red truck, and then I will mount the lightbar to that. I'm also going to put in some yellow and clear strobes in the taillights and headlights.

Don't quote me on this but I believe the Back Racks are different from the GMT 800s to the 900s because of the different bed heights. So one from an older truck will stick way above the roof of a newer truck and vice versa.

RockySierra · November 22, 2011

yeah that's what I am worried about, I don't need or want something that sticks way up.

leg7228 · November 25, 2011

For the O/P, the ACARI mount uses the third brake light bracket. Haven't seen one close up, but the idea seems to work on paper.

8.1HD/ALLISON · November 25, 2011

http://www.gm-trucks.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=125279&st=0 Here is a link to the topic I started about blue lights. Has a picture of my mini light bar. Its a magnetic mount. Absolutely love it. Very bright, reasonable priced. I also have strobes in my daytime and reverse lights.