driving/fog light installation

[JayGoss]

Is that Lanny Clark's barn I see in the back ground?

EwS

Yup- he's been working on this for about a year and a half.

[JayGoss]

I don't know man- you are too attached to your bumper! The last one I bought cost me $70 new, I didn't think twice about drilling holes in it. Get another set of over-riders and drill holes in them or something. Or buy another bumper for show and one for day to day driving.

I agree- I'm leaning that way. Right now the guy restoring it has an idea where he's going to try fabbing a bracket that attaches to a license plate bracket. If it's too complicated or doesn't look right I'll have him drill the bumper- I was just hoping to have the lights set back a little more, inside the radiator panel recess. Thanks for the input- for what I've put into this car it's pretty silly to be whining about an inexpensive bumper!

[TSR53]

Jay,

On my 1994 Defender 90 NAS soft top (I know it's not a Series bumper in question), but I mounted my Hella 500 amber fog lights using a piece of flat thick metal and drilled two holes on either end. I unbolted the top original brush bar where it mounts to the bumper and slipped this flat strip in-between the two, re-bolted this back down. This left two mounting points for the Hella 500 fog lights without drilling any holes in the stock bumper. Just make sure the strip of metal is thick enough to not vibrate with the weight of the lights.

[JayGoss]

How about roof mounted Euro Driving lamps, mounted onto a single Thule roof rack bar? You could fit 4 Hella 4000's and see for some distance ahead !!

That's a good idea Les- I'm also thinking about one of those Brownchurch galvanized racks, which would suport the same setup. When folks mount roof-top lights like that how do they route the wiring to the inside of the cab? Is it necesssary to drill holes in the top- or can you somehow route it through the weatherstripping?

[JayGoss]

Jay,

On my 1994 Defender 90 NAS soft top (I know it's not a Series bumper in question), but I mounted my Hella 500 amber fog lights using a piece of flat thick metal and drilled two holes on either end. I unbolted the top original brush bar where it mounts to the bumper and slipped this flat strip in-between the two, re-bolted this back down. This left two mounting points for the Hella 500 fog lights without drilling any holes in the stock bumper. Just make sure the strip of metal is thick enough to not vibrate with the weight of the lights.

Thanks Thompson. My friend has a powder coater at work, so I could do something similar with some thick gauge steel, then powder coat it for a clean look.

[JAy]

If you want to go higher, you can also use the windscreen mounts. If you do it just right it doesn't affect your visibility very much. Otherwise, there are plenty of bolts around the front to jump onto. I second (or third or fourth, whetever it's at) fabbing a bracket that bolts on the bumper mounting bolts. It would be easy to make a bar running between the two bumper mounts and that would give you options to mount the lights higher, or closer than just the mounting positions. It could even be galvanized to look closer to factory and match your resto.

[JimCT]

Higher mounts

Or on tthe roof rack.

[Daurie]

Heres how I monted mine on my brownchurch rack. I didn't want to drill either.

[JayGoss]

Heres how I monted mine on my brownchurch rack. I didn't want to drill either.

EXCELLENT! Thanks- that's very helpful. Question- where did you find that black wire protection/covering material?

[Daurie]

Radio Shack or any auto parts house should have it in the electrical section. Heres a link to my photobucket with more pictures of the installation. http://s53.photobucket.com/albums/g7.../Land%20Rover/

Daurie