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Old 02-17-2015, 08:16 AM
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I know several people here have mounted lights behind their grille's. What are some of the ways people have done this? I was thinking about running a piece of steel angle across in front of the radiator and fastening it to either side, then drilling a hole in the angle for mounting the lights. I've seen people use uni-strut as well. Any pics would be great!
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Something like this maybe?
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Originally Posted by bwFX42006


Something like this maybe?
Where are the horns?
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Originally Posted by Red13

Where are the horns?
Are your horns mounted there? Mine are under the pass headlight assembly behind the rubber flap
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Originally Posted by bwFX42006

Something like this maybe?
How do you like that mount? I was gonna do that but worried the lights would shake too much mounting it there
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Quick and dirty, but a piece of angle fastened right into the headlight mounting bolt. (note, the wiring doesn't look so crappy now.)
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That's exactly what I'm planning. Hopefully my left over piece of angle is long enough
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How well will they shine through the grill
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I've got the honeycomb grille and I would say that it has minimal impact on light output. That being said, I don't know how well it would work through the others.
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Originally Posted by GigaFish
I've got the honeycomb grille and I would say that it has minimal impact on light output. That being said, I don't know how well it would work through the others.
I have an H-Bar but i'm going to try and mount a couple slim LED bars that wire into your turn signals. Hopefully I'll get everything to work out so the LED bars fall on each side of the ford emblem.




I know it shows them on a car....but I think I can make it look good behind the grille on my truck. Plus they wire into your turn signals! If it ends up looking bad I'll just slap them on the inside of the truck underneath the dash and call it a day.


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