bordner42
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How were you able to mount it to the bumper? I watched the YouTube video to see where exactly you mounted it but aren't sure of where still. Did you have to drill through a part in the bumber?
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22" Lightbar installed in Front Bumper / Active Shutter area
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Sorry I didn't get a chance to take pictures, it would make it so much easier to explain.
So there is this plastic box that guides air into the active shutter area. You need to take that out. Then turn the mounts for the light bar so that instead of sitting at 90 degrees, they are 180 degrees and mount to the vertical metal backing of the bumper. That is where you need to drill holes and mount. I then needed to cut a slot on each side of the plastic box so it could slide over the mounting brackets. You will have to unscrew the radar unit for the ACC so you can move it out of the way and get your hand in the area where you want to put the mount so you can get the screws in.
Once you have the bumper removed all of this will make sense.
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I have the same grill, and now I have to tint my bar as well, that looks sick!
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I ordered this light bar but with the RGB function. Going to mount it up in the same spot and attempt to wire it up to my aux switches. I'll post some pics with done.
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Looks great. Looking to get some ditch lights installed on mine.
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Nice job making the stock light bar disappear. My only complaint with the truck. Does any light leak out at night?I finally got all the wiring done for this project and successfully fired everything up so I wanted to share. I have been going down a rabbit hole with lightbars and wanting to mount it somewhere on the front grill, bumper, etc. I bought and returned a whole bunch of cheapo Amazon things, just part of the discovery process. I really had my heart set on the diode dynamics stage series, but they only had an 18" bar. I wanted to mount the bar to something solid, so after watching this video, I realized I could mount it to the metal part of the back of the front bumper:
So I decided on the Auxbeam because it is 22", has both and amber and white DRL, and yes, I know what everyone says about buying chinesium stuff but the Auxbeam feels pretty solid and is on the higher end of the cheap stuff.
I also installed a switchpros 9100 so I could control everything, when I get a chance I'll write more about that. I started out with the Auxbeam AR800 and while I think that system is fine, the deal breaker for me was that everything defaults to off when you start the car. So if you wire your DRLs or the grill marker lights in my case, you have to press a button every time you start the car for them to come on. With the switchpros you can have a default on state. So a lot more $$ for the swithpros, but ultimately I do think the SP is a good system and I am happy with the switch.
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Thanks, posted all about it here:
https://www.f150lightningforum.com/...rapped-with-stek-light-protection-film.21730/
You can see a night pic on post #5. Lets the light through, no leaks around the edges...
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Perfect! Thx
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Where did you get the Custom Grill? That looks awesome!
