Ranch Hand install question
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Ranch Hand install question
Hey everybody!
So I bought a ranch hand grill guard on Craigslist the other day. It came with all the mounting brackets needed to install, but no instructions.
I went on ranch hands web site, and I saw their "instructions" aka cad drawing that doesn't help me much hahaha.
So I just wanted to get some people's thoughts who have installed them on their trucks.
Do I have to remove the grill to get to the bolts for the upper support brackets?
Or is it easier to go underneath? I crawled under there and looked, and don't see an easy way. Just want to find out the best path before I completely take apart 80 things to find out I could have done it 10x easier.
Any info appreciated!
Thanks!
So I bought a ranch hand grill guard on Craigslist the other day. It came with all the mounting brackets needed to install, but no instructions.
I went on ranch hands web site, and I saw their "instructions" aka cad drawing that doesn't help me much hahaha.
So I just wanted to get some people's thoughts who have installed them on their trucks.
Do I have to remove the grill to get to the bolts for the upper support brackets?
Or is it easier to go underneath? I crawled under there and looked, and don't see an easy way. Just want to find out the best path before I completely take apart 80 things to find out I could have done it 10x easier.
Any info appreciated!
Thanks!
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If you move this black plastic/rubber shroud thing out of your way you can see the bolts from the inside of the frame. Your truck will look a little different underneath though because I have a full ranch hand bumper on mine already.
Last edited by ErikShockey; Jun 18, 2012 at 10:30 PM.
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I hear ya on that. Seems like it would be a PITA do drill holes for them lol.
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I don't have any pictures on this computer, but if you want some offroad lights on a RH Legend series (has the honeycomb mesh), you'll need to fab up some tabs. If you just drilled into the horizontal pipe, the round back of the light would get caught up in the mesh.
Me and the owner of the truck accessory shop spent 30 minutes trying to decide the best way and that's the route we chose. You can just get some small 2"x2" (or whatever size works best) pieces of steel and weld them on the guard. Same idea as a light bar. I would say have them on the lower of the 3 horizontal bars.
[Had the same guard on my '00 f150]
Me and the owner of the truck accessory shop spent 30 minutes trying to decide the best way and that's the route we chose. You can just get some small 2"x2" (or whatever size works best) pieces of steel and weld them on the guard. Same idea as a light bar. I would say have them on the lower of the 3 horizontal bars.
[Had the same guard on my '00 f150]
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I don't have any pictures on this computer, but if you want some offroad lights on a RH Legend series (has the honeycomb mesh), you'll need to fab up some tabs. If you just drilled into the horizontal pipe, the round back of the light would get caught up in the mesh.
Me and the owner of the truck accessory shop spent 30 minutes trying to decide the best way and that's the route we chose. You can just get some small 2"x2" (or whatever size works best) pieces of steel and weld them on the guard. Same idea as a light bar. I would say have them on the lower of the 3 horizontal bars.
[Had the same guard on my '00 f150]
Me and the owner of the truck accessory shop spent 30 minutes trying to decide the best way and that's the route we chose. You can just get some small 2"x2" (or whatever size works best) pieces of steel and weld them on the guard. Same idea as a light bar. I would say have them on the lower of the 3 horizontal bars.
[Had the same guard on my '00 f150]
http://www.ranchhand.com/product.php?id=10440
