Nice write up - Really helpful!

Good going!

Hey MoMo -

Do you have the exact dimentions of those brackets? ie: hights and length.
The more I look at it - the more I like the idea!

Thanks,
Johnny

I'll go a step farther, in addition to what length height, do you have the width and measurements of the holes, IE; where are they drilled and size of hole? The size and length of the bolts?

I'm anal and lazy, bad combo! :[)

Chris

hey momo if your still checking this thread, its really easy to wire up fogs like that. all you got to do is get 18-16g maybe 14g (i dunno how much the hellas pull) stranded wire from home depot and black loom, its the stuff that goes around the wire to protect it from heat and burning from hot parts under the hood. (you might have knowen that, sorry) and a simple rocker switch from maybe home depot of radio shack or where ever. what you do is take one wire from the battery run it through the firewall, there might be room on the driver side where there is an existing hole and run it to a location that you would want the switch. (i.e) to the left of the wheel, center console? i dunno.) then from the switch back through the firewall to the lights, the negative side of the fogs you can do to things, just ground them to the frame or run another wire to the (-)side of the battery, both will work depends on how much wire you want to use. i would suggest just grounding it to the frame. if you need help for taking the paneling off pm me or post here and ill take pics of me doing it, its really easy once you have done it a couple of times.

I decided to give this a shot. I went to Home Depot & bought a strip of 1 1/2 x 3/16 cold rolled steel. The strip was 36" long. I cut it in half.

I cut some card board into a strip and made a template from the 4runner. I bent the card board to 90% and punched the holes. I then transferred the hole locations and bend point to the steel.

I put the steel into a vice, right at the cut line and bent it with a 3 pound sledge. Then I drilled the holes. I didn't feel like drilling out the holes on the 4runner any bigger, so I just bought 3/16 bolts, nuts, and washers.

I bought rustoleum primer & black enamel. I've sprayed on the primer. This is where I'm at right now. I ordered Hella 500's from Offroadwarehouse.com, they should be here in the next day or two. Once I get them I will determine the hole location for them and drill that hole, then spray with the enamel.

Here are a few pics, I'll post more when I finish... wish me luck!

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Very cool! Post some pics when you get it finished.

I finished the brackets and recieved the lights. Between Thanksgiving and crappy weather, I just now put them on. I haven't had a chance to hook them up yet.

Getting those bolts into the holes from inside the the tube was a ***** for me but I finally got it done by, get this, superglueing a piece of yarn to the tip of the bolt and pulled it threw that way. It must have taken me an hour and about 10 different ways before I came to that idea. Wrapping the wire around the bolt made it to wide to fit threw the hole.

Does anyone have a webpage where I can get an OEM switch?

Here are a few pics, I think they looks good. Thanks for the write up Momo you saved me a ton of money, I almost bought the JAOS lamp stay.

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Those look really good!

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You might want to order the clear Hella 500 covers for them. I had mine on for one day and got a small chip in the glass. Since I have had the clear covers on, no problems at all. I even had a scrap piece of tire fly up and hit the light last week and it just scuffed the clear cover. had I not had them on there, the light would have been toast. i ordered mine for autobarn.com

http://www.autobarn.net/heclco.html

Thanks for the link, I'll be ordering the clear covers today.

That's good. I would hate for all that work to go to waste because of one little pebble. Good job on the lights!

Wired em up last night in the snow.... I'll take some pics today if the weather is nice. Now I just have to figure out how to adjust them...

Did you wire them up so they come on with the high beams or are they independent, where they can be turned on at any time?