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Old Apr 1, 2008
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Post pics of your off road lights on your bumpers

Hey guys looking to see how i can mount my hella's on my bumper,so post up what you got
 
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Old Apr 1, 2008
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Westin Safari bar

 
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mine are just like blakleys i dont have any pictures though
 
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cant really see them too well but they are mounted on tabs bolted in from behind the bumper, got them from www.stuffforyourranger.com
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https://www.ranger-forums.com/forum2...ght=light+tabs

^^That's a link to a how-to on doing your own light tabs. No Drilling to your truck at all. Works on 98-05 trucks. I have no clue if your truck has the bolts in the right places, but this is the best option, imo, if your don't want to drill into your bumper.

Here's mine:

Before with virtually the same measurements as Wayne's tabs, but with the Slimlites.



Originally Posted by Fx4wannabe01

Homemade lite tabs....using 1/4"x1 1/2". Bent using oxy/acet torch on a vice. Eyeballed it. I shortend them up to hug against the grille by about 1.5" compaired to my old tabs. KC Slimlite Titaniums(thanks 07ranger!!). I'm going to add two more lites in the middle here like next week.





Comparison between my old tabs and my new tabs. I believe I followed the diagram of what Jusnes and Underdog sells when i made the first set...except for the thickness of the first set of tabs.

Then you could add a crossmember, and bam! you got 4 lights!




 
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Old Apr 2, 2008
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Too bad only 2 of them work!
 
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Old Apr 2, 2008
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Who wants to make me some light tabs??? hahaha Looks great..I want some!
 
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ima pic *****
 
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Old Apr 3, 2008
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I'm like pictures too! Mine is a tad custom but they're ligths mounted on my bumper

From a distance
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Little Closer (rough roads will do that to my covers, littl upside down, lol)
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Old Apr 3, 2008
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Bah to all you peopel with good ol Waag bar's.. Im jealous, I've been wanting one for a while They look damn sexy on a white truck.. on my white truck to be precise.. and I want some!! :-D
 
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Mike...i'll make ya lite tabs....
 
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Old Apr 3, 2008
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If you mean Matt....hook me up!! Remember I have 3" body lift though...thats what may make it a little more tough..
 
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Old Apr 3, 2008
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Haha...I feel stupid...I guess you did mean Mike...Im sorry lol...
 
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Old Apr 4, 2008
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damn looks good guys now im off to the garage to make custom tabs
 
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Old Apr 4, 2008
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Originally Posted by vansnxtweek
Remember I have 3" body lift though...thats what may make it a little more tough..
If you're talking about the light tabs for the bumpers it doesn't matter. The tabs are attatched directly to the bumper and go where ever the bumper goes (you take the bumper off, the lights come off. You lift the bumper with lift brackets, the lights go up 3" with the bumper). Wayne recently had a thread on how to make some since he's having problems bending them right now.
 
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Old Apr 4, 2008
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Oh okay sweet! now that i think about it that would make sense i just wasnt sure on which bolt it used
 
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get a waag bar and u wont need light tabs
 
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Originally Posted by Oh5Edge
If you're talking about the light tabs for the bumpers it doesn't matter. The tabs are attatched directly to the bumper and go where ever the bumper goes (you take the bumper off, the lights come off. You lift the bumper with lift brackets, the lights go up 3" with the bumper). Wayne recently had a thread on how to make some since he's having problems bending them right now.

To elaborate on this.....

The light tabs are attached using an existing bumper bolt. To install lite/light tabs, take the bolt out, put the tab against the bumper, run the bolt through the tab then into the nutsert, then tighten the bolt.

The PA bodylift brackets, i believe, use the stock mounting spots on the bumper to mount.......so your good to go there, just a little differnt being that the PA kit uses bolts and nuts, unlike the stock bolt into fixed nut. If i'm wrong, you could always just use a 3/8 bolt & nut through the hole in the bumper where the light tabs normally mount.

These pics are the best pics i got in regard to location........basically under the bottom corners of the grille, backside of bumper....



 
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Old Apr 8, 2008
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Put em behind the grill. Looks alot cleaner and better IMO
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