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Light that will fit behind Grillcraft WO moving trans cooler

Discussion in 'Lighting' started by Benny, Sep 21, 2012.

  1. Sep 21, 2012 at 2:19 PM
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    Benny

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    I see that many of you have lights mounted behind your Grillcraft or Satoshi grills. What are some good options to mount back there that don't require relocating anything? I want to add a Grillcraft to my 2008 Tacoma and mount 2 lights directly behind it. I am not interested in retrofitting the Hellas and not even sure if those will fit without moving the horn and transmission cooler. Thanks for the help. Hoping to have something worthy of a build page but for now am mostly stock........ :(
     
  2. Sep 21, 2012 at 3:51 PM
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    Pretty no much matter what you do you will have to relocate your horns. Super simple tho
     
  3. Sep 21, 2012 at 3:53 PM
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    You'll have to move both. You might be able to get away with it if you got a thin lip satoshi or grillcraft, and did some mock up on a light bar, but that would be more trouble than moving stuff. Moving the horns is easy as hell
     
  4. Sep 21, 2012 at 4:29 PM
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    I have a 30" LED bar behind my grill and al I had to do was move the horns
     
  5. Sep 21, 2012 at 4:45 PM
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    Horns is really easy, I didn't relocate the tranny cooler inasmuch as I simple moved it further back to accommodate my lights using longer bolts and washers and such, really wasn't that hard. Order up a BAMF lightbar like mine and you're good to go. Dig through my gallery pics and you'll find my light install pics. If you plant to run only two lights you may not need to move the cooler at all.
     
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  8. Sep 21, 2012 at 4:53 PM
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    Kc slimlights will fit, but as said, move the horns required
     
  9. Sep 21, 2012 at 4:56 PM
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    I can't remember exactly where I mounted the horns, whether or not I used existing holes or drilled new ones, but I mounted mine on the other side of the radiator frame (meaning on the inside of the engine bay as opposed to the outside).
     
  10. Sep 21, 2012 at 5:17 PM
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    I'm here for you, Chris. Anything else you need? ;)

    All of mine are on the outside, and I have a feeling I'll need to relocate the horns, once again, when I finally install a winch.
     
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