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2004+ Driving Lights Behind the Grill

2004+ Driving Lights Behind the Grill

For those of you with 2004+ trucks, here's the driving light bracket that I'd previously shared - until my gallery disappeared. It allows you to place two driving lights behind the grill and mount them in such a way as to avoid the shaking common in some other designs. This particular design was built and installed in early 2005 with simple tools and parts. It was completely fabricated in my basement shop.

Z Bracket: The basis for my whole syetm is what I call the Z-Bracket - due to its shape. Everything here is fabricated from 1/4" x 3/4" flat aluminum...

Wiring Along Hood Release Cable: I tried to make all of the wiring look as "factory supplied" as possible. Here's the wiring running from the bracket...

Top View of Cross Member: Here's the basic bracket system in place before mounting the lights. Everything was measured & mocked up with cardboard and...

Relay Mounting: The relay I used has an integral fuse mount and I used a short stainless steel screw to mount it to the side of the battey cover....

Center Cross Member Closeup: I needed to better support the center of the bracket and find a place to remount the Temperature Sensor. This is the...

Center Cross Member: Here's that same bracket shown from the side.

Lights in Grill 2005: This is what the pair of Hella 500 driving lights (with 130 watt bulbs) look like with the hood closed. Note that the bracket...

Lights with Hood Open: wWith the hood open, you get a better picture of what the whole system looks like.

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