Bumper/Grille Mounted Light Bar Options for Driving Lights - Hella, Lightforce etc.

I have 4 Hella 4000's. Plenty powerful in HID, but weight a good bit. Not going the LED lightbar route at least until these crap out on me. Going on 6 years mounted year around in some fairly unforgiving conditions.

These suckers weigh in at nearly 4.5lbs per unit, I'm looking at about 18 pounds of lighting equipment up front with covers, gravel shields, etc. Lightforce HID's also an option weighing in at about 4 lbs for a pair - but those are in rougher shape...

The Hella's are in a driving pattern and shine when mounted at the height of the headlights or slightly higher. If mounted below the level of the headlights, you end up with glare on the road surface and can't point them upward to compensate without blinding low-flying aircraft.

Roof mounting I'd like to steer clear of since hood glare would be impossible to deal with - know this from experience on another truck.

Given their weight, they need a pretty solid mount - they can vibrate just due to their mass on lighter weight tubing bars.

Any proven bolt-on/mostly bolt-on bars out there?

 

Check out the bumper threads.

 

Old thread but did you ever find a good solution?