light bar project

I wanted to fab up a light bar. So a guy over at CT was kind enough to cut some brackets for me on his water jet.

The brackets weren't exactly what I wanted, so I still need to cut them to a different configuration.









Here are the brackets. I had a chance to modify them to what I wanted. went to HomeDepot to get a piece of 40" black pipe for the main bar.

After:






Here's the bar, I got a 48" piece of black pipe from HomeDepot.

Cut it to 40" and bent the ends.



I turned down bar ends on the lathe out of stainless steel:




This gives you an idea of how much space there is between the bumper and the bar. Should be enough for some 8" lights.




Update on my slow project I had a chance to put it all together today. I ordered the Hella 500 lights also from Ebay.


But this is what I have so far:







This is how I made my brackets:




I cut it out of a big C-channel Aluminum stock, and I needed to mill some recesses to accommodate the flange on the bumper nuts.

finished product:

 

looks tight Toku.....love the look of your truck

 

Wow that looks great! If you make a few more I am sure you could sell 'em. Nice and clean look.

 

If u started selling those i would defiantly considering buying one

 

Looks really good! Nice work!

 

Very nice set up. Now get back out there and put some wire loom over them exposed wires to get that finished look. You did a lot of work to leave that unfinished. Great job!

 

Holy crap... That's incredible... great work

I want one now...

 

Thanks guys! It's my copy of the N-Fab light bar.

 

that is very clean. thats exactly like this vendor underdog performance (not sure if its the same underdog?) used to make for ford rangers and i always thought they were the best by a mile.

 

Great work! Very clean

 

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but it looks real nice, im not a fan of the light bars, but I would roll one of these (if I needed the lights)
and yeah I bet if you made a few you could sell them real fast.

 

Incredible the talents people have. Awesome work bud.

 

X2!!!

 

Looks real good, good job!

X2

 

Absolutely sick... wish I could have seen your truck in person still while I was in HI...

 

check THIS stuff out toku. pretty similar to what you're doing, only hes using flat bar.

 

Gorgeous! If you started selling those, you could make hella bank! That is one of the cleanest bars on here for sure.

 

damn good work there man!

 

i'll go ahead and start the sign up list for these.

1. jla888

 

That's a nice looking light bar. Very clean fabrication. The mounting brackets look nice; got to love CNC machining/cutting.