led light bar mounting

[dgirardi]

So I took a chance and bought a 42" light bar, and am trying to figure out how to mount it on the roof rack. Any ideas? It is 44" wide, by the way.

Once I get it on ill post some pictures, and update in a couple months to see how reliable it is.

[Cable810]

I think Drburke has mounted his to his roofrack think it was 42" viewtopic.php?f=74&t=4352

[mikekey]

Post a picture and we can give you some better ideas.

[galacticfuzz]

If the light bar doesn't reach to the rails you could always get a piece of flat steel and use that in place of a square bar. Minor fabrication involved. But like stated pics would help.


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[dgirardi]

Ill upload a picture when I get off work

[Regulator1175]

Ill upload a picture when I get off work

Wow, that is one hell of a long shift you work!

[Moots1288]

Ill upload a picture when I get off work

Wow, that is one hell of a long shift you work!

Maybe he's working a 4 day straight shift!

[dgirardi]

i've been working 12-14 hour days, lol. i'm a car audio fabricator/installer, and i get paid straight commission. if people bring me money, ill work all day long.

[dgirardi]

this is basically what i have. 44" total width.
http://img1.cdn.nobodybuy.com/Y201106M1 ... 21-240.jpg

[1brushscrubber]

You could do like I did for my scanner antenna mounting (3 of them) and run a 1x1 square tube across the roof racks. I made my own insert with a welded nut on the bottom side of the insert (had to grind a little off the top of the nut) and then bolt down the square tube. I've used this same idea to mount 2 flat steel pieces to hold my MX7000 amber lightbar when I had it on the trailblazer.

Jake

[navigator]

for my roof rack I took a large washer and cut part of the top and bottom off so it was only 1 Inch top to bottom. I then put it on a bolt and tightened a nut up real tight. This effectively gave the bolt a wide head to catch ont he sides of the rail. I made 4 of these and slid them in the rail of the roof mount and set the rack on and put another washer and bolt on top and bolted it down.

[drburke]

Where the wind fairing goes, I had two fastening holes on each end that coincided with the mount points on the light bar's feet. I rigged up a secure mount based on this and washers/nuts. I ended up selling the rack and the bar to a friend. The rack and the tire up top was a gas killer and made it top-heavy. Coupled with disco'ed sway bars, I wasn't comfortable. I'll end up buying another bar again because the light output was absolutely out of this world, though I'll have to fab up a separate mount for it.

FYI, depending on the rack and its placement, half of the light output will hit the roof and reflect up because it sits far back.

[Trail X]

Get that sucker up front on the roof. Get some blind hole rivet nuts and mount it wherever you want.

[djthumper]

Get the blind hole nut-serts with the sealer and be good to go.