Cali raised brackets

No you don’t have to . It does make it easier to get the side bolt. But you can lay down under neath and reach up and do it. You will have to remove the two 10mm bolts under neath were the skirt meet the bumper

 

There are 3 bolts on each fender liner that you can remove and then wedge the fender wall against the tire. It makes it easier since you will need access to the mounting screw on the outside of each light. (driver outside and passenger outside) It will also make it easier to reach up from underneath the truck when needed. It will take 5 mins to put the fender wall back on.

 

Take a look at my write up for the install on my 2010. Key notes about the installation of the outside screw, use a 90* allen key and it makes it a lot easier.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...as-diode-dynamics.641306/page-8#post-23468813

 

Man! One thing is for sure about this SS3 fog light mod! It’s not a simple easy peasy deal. My WORD. @tattooedsnake and @TACOMA2NDGEN Did y’all have issues with the bolt falling/slipping out when u were trying to tighten the Allen on? I swear I must have tried legit 8 times before I finally got it. The middle bolt on the drivers side. A combination of trying to do one at a time to trying to do both simultaneously. To doing one at a time again. Got dam it was frustrating. I only had time to do one bc I’m on call and also It was about to downpour and i had spent 2 hours outside ! Also. Does yalls have like some give to it Not flopping around, but it’s not like set in stone. I can press on it and it moves a bit. Maybe I have to tighten down more. But I had to get inside with rain coming. Man I don’t know how easy these are to adjust but if it’s as difficult as it was going in I may just have to call it good as is.

 

Theres not much adjustment up and down mabey 1/8 . And for the nuts falling out i put a piece of electrical tape over the slot so it wouldn’t fall out . The one side was definitely easier than the other

 

@prone2xl
I also had the same issue with the nut falling out of its holding area.
Try setting the screw that is on the inside first (passenger side close to the engine.) and then the outside screw.

Be sure to back the adjustment screw out a lot so that you can point the fixtures down lower. With the screws still loose, point the fixtures as low as you can.Once you get both side screws tightened about 90% then you can tighten down the outside screw very tight and adjust the focus and then lock them in place using the inside screw. The adjustments grew will come in handy for making your small up and down tweaks. There is a little bit of play in the mount itself that sits in the hole but once you get everything tightened down there will be minimal movement and no bounce.

Now that you did the first one, it's only going to take you 30 minutes to do the second one. But don't worry you have probably four or five nights worth of sitting in a parking lot sitting on the ground trying to focus them lol.

 

Man thanks for the pointers! Dude another hard part for me was that little plastic nubbin cover that he gets the needle nose pliers and pinches and pushes through. I couldn’t get it to go through for nothing! I ended up just pushing those side parts out and it blew the fog light out the front lol. Luckily I don’t think u can really break much of the mechanism too badly ?