After seeing what small light bars can do, plus almost nailing a deer on dark road, I decided to take the pinnacle of 90’s lighting technology to the modern age, hah. I didn’t want to put in a big honkin bar up top, so here’s what installing a rough country 20” dual row bar in the bumper looks like.
One note is that I will be using these as driving lights, so I wired it to come on with the high beams.
Measure twice, drill once. Those air holes make it tough to line up a good spot to use the supplied mounts. These are M8 rivnuts to match the supplied hardware.
Brackets bolted up solid. They came with rubber isolators, guessing to dampen vibration.
Quick test and confirming aim.
Trimmed bumper plastic to fit. Sanded the flat surfaces a bit with a die grinder and then hit it with a bit of propane torch to smooth it out. You can’t tell it was cut unless you really looked for it.
Bumper on. Looks good!
Wired up the battery side connections, relay mounted with the body ground.
High beams in non-DRL are negative switched. The wire in the middle is the one you want to tap into to switch the relay. I soldered to this wire because I was out of small gauge t-taps. Here’s a shot of testing the high beam function after depinning the supplied crappy switch.
Before.
After.
Fairly stealthy install.