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Cheap 30" light bar

Discussion in 'Product Reviews' started by shr133, Nov 14, 2014.

  1. Nov 14, 2014 at 9:43 PM
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    shr133

    shr133 [OP] Well-Known Member

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    Steve
    Muskego, WI
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    2010 V6 Sport
    K & N filter, 275 70 17 Cooper AT3, OME Nitrocharger shocks, 884 Springs, Dakar leafs.
    After getting back from the woods I needed better lights. The brights were fine but I needed more volume of light, a better fog light... So I started looking at light bars. The 30" inch seamed the easiest to mount but they are not cheap and I may get a bumper down the line so it seamed impractical...

    So I saw the cheap ones on Amazon, read some reviews give it a try...
    They are good lights much bigger than I thought they would be...
    They are not super bright but throw tons of light from the ground to the tops of trees and out to the sides, a super fog light.... Works great in both fog, rain, dark hwy and it's almost time to test in snow.
    I mounted it with 2 5/16 hardened bolts, it's rock solid....

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    But they are not water proof... after a few days I had moisture behind the lens and they run too cool to get rid of it... and after some heavy off roading I got some water in it..... Time to take it apart...



    So I pull it out and pull the side caps off and 2oz of water dumps out..
    It looks like 2 of the screws are threaded into the inside of the light.

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    So I pulled off the end caps and lens, resiliconed the lens and the end caps and the out side of the screws... I should be set... Hopefully they are sealed up.... The water discolored some of the chrome (very cheap) but the light still working good.....

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCUkJvzG6yw&list=UUdivh_kHOu-chbmTUIySHpw
     
    Last edited: Nov 14, 2014
  2. Nov 30, 2014 at 8:28 PM
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    7SeasTaco

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    2015, 7596 Model, 4X4 TRD Sport MGM
    I might just give that a try...
    What's it called and how much?
     

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