Lights behind grill

Ianwilli721 · March 15, 2016

Thanks! Will do in a few

Ianwilli721 · March 16, 2016

Here is the light bar at night with Fogs you wanted. I had to lower the exposure so it wasn't blinding out the camera in one of the pics...lowered it so you can see the eye lids and fog lights. The garage pic is low beam and then with just the light bar. The picture doesn't do it justice. It lights up my whole house and yard.

SlavO · March 16, 2016

Awesome... my brother has a 16. And ive a 14. We're both going to do this soon. Thanks for the picks

Ianwilli721 · March 17, 2016

Nice. If you want to know how to do the brackets let me know. I can tell you the step by step and how I did it. Super easy.

Dino76033 · March 18, 2016

Nice. If you want to know how to do the brackets let me know. I can tell you the step by step and how I did it. Super easy.

I'm interested.

tootall87 · March 18, 2016

Nice. If you want to know how to do the brackets let me know. I can tell you the step by step and how I did it. Super easy.

Sounds like a good thread for a write up

slj2008 · March 18, 2016

good job . I need one on my midnight edition - Z71 grill w cross bars . So how much light will be loss , because of bars ????

kkmitchell5 · March 18, 2016

Im curious as well! I have my light bar just sitting there waiting for me to install it and can't figure out a good way to do it without drilling holes into the radiator supports of my all terrain

Rock1500 · March 18, 2016

Is 30 inches the biggest light bar you can get?

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xelli · March 18, 2016

Nice. If you want to know how to do the brackets let me know. I can tell you the step by step and how I did it. Super easy.

I'm interested.

Sounds like a good thread for a write up

I'm interested too. Would love to see the write-up.

Ianwilli721 · March 18, 2016

Mine is the Z71 and I have a 30" two row bar. In my opinion the 30" bar is perfect because of the shape of the grill. The brackets were super easy:

Get a piece of flat stock aluminum from lowes a local hardware store. Mine cost like $10 for like 2.5" wide and 3' long. I held the light bar up to the angled supports centered and marked where the hold for the brackets landed on the support bars. Then measured the length of the flat stock needed to reach top edge and cut at the same angle the bars were at. Simply by eyeballing while marking the angle. I added 2" to the length to bend for the bottom bolt as seen in the above thread. Used a reciprocating saw to cut the aluminum and a vice to bend the 2" end at a 90* angle. Once they were both cut I held them in place to mark the drill holes to pilot the self tapping screws. Painted the brackets black and when dry bolted them in with self tapers. I used small clamps to mock up the light bar to sender it between the slats on my grill and marked the aluminum to drill. Used the bolts that came with the light to bolt it on and replaced the grill. Total project including the wiring and switch took about an hour and a half. You can see the switch I used above also. Placed it on the telescoping bar rubber slot so I did not have to drill the dash anywhere. Works great!

Ianwilli721 · March 18, 2016

Im curious as well! I have my light bar just sitting there waiting for me to install it and can't figure out a good way to do it without drilling holes into the radiator supports of my all terrain

You could also make a bracket like above and instead of cutting it to follow the angle of the support let it be taller than the support by a few inches and use a pair of U bolts to bolt the aluminum to the support. Then you don't have to drill the supports.

Airbus27 · March 24, 2016

Anybody wired a light bar to the aftermarket auxiliary switches (the mod that places a few extra "aux" switches in the cluster that includes the power pedal adjustment, traction control, bed light etc). Saw one available from GM Upfitters and think it'd be a awesome clean looking install.

Sidewayz · March 24, 2016

There's a whole thread on it. I just was looking at it but can't remember which sub forum it was in.

Tim O'Brien · April 28, 2016

I was looking around online to see if anyone made a better bracket than what I "engineered" together a few months ago.

Just so everyone knows rough country now has a kit with light bar and bracket, I don't need a light bar but the bracket looks pretty simple and I might try to make a similar one, I also tried contacting RC to see if they would sell just a bracket, couldn't get a straight answer, kind of doubting they will anytime soon.