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Smitty Built Street Light Bar?

Discussion in '2nd Gen. Tacomas (2005-2015)' started by A.T., Jun 22, 2016.

  1. Jun 22, 2016 at 2:15 PM
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    A.T.

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    Hey Gents

    Has anyone tried one of these. I'd like to mount some lights on the front of my '07 but I don't want to go with a huge bull bar thing? This Smitty Built item sounds like the ticket. Just wondering if anyone has used one and has a picture of what it looks like installed.

    http://www.smittybilt.com/product/index/5.htm

    Thanks

    A.T.
     
  2. Jun 22, 2016 at 2:19 PM
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    4 years and the finish is still great!
     
  3. Jun 22, 2016 at 2:32 PM
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  4. Jun 23, 2016 at 11:55 AM
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    Thanks trdNick. Just what I needed. It looks great. I want one. Was the install simple?
     
  5. Jun 23, 2016 at 11:56 AM
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    Yes very simple. Bolt 2 brackets on the frame horns and then the bolt the bar to the bracket. Re-use 6 nuts and add 4 carriage bolts and nuts.
     
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  6. Jun 23, 2016 at 12:00 PM
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    The smittybilt street light bar works well. Simple and strong. Mines been on for ~6 years without issue.
    4 7" hella 700s fit great
    image.jpg

    A 32" LED bar was a bit too wide for the mounts but a couple pieces of flat steel worked perfectly to mount it.
    image.jpg
     
  7. Jun 23, 2016 at 12:02 PM
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    I would check to see where they mount to the frame. I think they utilize the same spot. Would be cool to have both, might be able to tweak the light bar to fit to the winch mount.
     
  8. Jun 23, 2016 at 12:15 PM
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    Thanks guys. It looks perfect. The lights are mounted and no huge honkin' bull bar stuff. I'm looking forward to seeing at night. I find the headlights a little wimpy on my truck.
     
  9. Jun 23, 2016 at 12:24 PM
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    I like US Offroads. Has spots for lights next to the winch and then i just made up a bracket for in the grill.

    20160131_112549.jpg
     
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  10. Jun 23, 2016 at 12:25 PM
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    What kind of lift you got bro?
     
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  11. Jun 23, 2016 at 12:37 PM
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    Looks good! :thumbsup:
     
  12. Jun 23, 2016 at 12:46 PM
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    Mine is the Nfab version I guess. Thought Nfab was the one with the pipewrench cut out on the front gussetts & Smittybuilt was just the round holes in those spots. Been wrong before tho. Gussets look a bit bigger on the Smittybuilt. I did a 20" led bar between HID converted Hella 500FF's..............either way, both bars are pretty much the same thing.



    Closeup....kinda can see the round holes in gussets

     
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  13. Aug 25, 2016 at 10:35 AM
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    Two months later, but I have to ask - I can see in your avatar pic that your fogs are damn bright - did you upgrade the bulbs to HID or LED?
    Those lights and bar look great - this was exactly what I was planning on doing, but wasn't sure how a light bar would look surrounded by two round lamps - but after seeing this, I am definitely going to do it now. :headbang: Thanks for posting the pics!
    Oh, on a side note, I ordered the Smittybuilt bar and it arrived with the pipe wrenches carved out of the corner pieces. The instructions have the Smittybuilt logo on top, but also reference N-fab in the installation portion, so I guess they don't make separate versions anymore.
     
  14. Aug 25, 2016 at 10:37 AM
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    Beautiful!
     
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    Both the Hellas and the factory fogs are 35w HID....fogs = 6000k and Hellas = 3000k. Thanks for the props and your welcome on the pics. Got relay issue on the fogs and ballast/bulb down on 1 of the Hellas and need to wire up the LED lightbar. Just did a bluesea fusebox underhood and will be rewiring all of these up to it......some time or another. Also considering going back to halogen on the headlights where I will actually have low and hi beams instead of just the low beam pointed higher with the D2S HIDs. Lows are good but high beam better with the Phillips xtremevision bulbs and less ballasts and such. Kinda like having my mandatory lighting halogen.
     
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    Thanks man.....maybe I should wash it.:D
     
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    Thank you sir! Great info - and I look forward to seeing that underhood fuse box (I also want to do one of those as well, but that is definitely much further down the road). Do you have a build thread? Would like to sub to see the progress!
     
  18. Aug 26, 2016 at 9:54 AM
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    very cool, whole thing. The state issued pre-skid plate is a really nice touch, lol. Might as well use it for something besides cluttering up the front end. :D
     
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    It's in place, just need to wire stuff up to it and flip that breaker and light stuff up.



     
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