brianjwilson: January '08 Featured Truck

[Paraphoe]

I have 4 - 8" round Delta foglights in black casings with 130 watt bulbs sitting in the garage.
I haven't mounted them yet, because I always hit trees and stuff with my rack as it is, don't want to break the lights. So I'm trying to figure out an easy way to make the lights tilt back out of the way before I wire them up. Then I'll run a cheap small rectangle fog light on each side (facing sideways) and two on the back.

Nice. That should look awesome. Are you sure they're fogs though? You might not want to mount fogs on a roof rack. You'd be much better off with driving lights up there.

 

[brianjwilson]

Yes I know that now, lol.
I wasn't sure what the light pattern was going to look like, but I bought them for $70, used. I hooked one up to a 12v battery I have laying around the other night and it is a really wide pattern (good), but a really slim profile (not so good)...
I'd really like 2 wide angle fog/flood lights on the outside, and two driving lights in the middle. But this is what I have for now. I just spent almost $100 on a new winch disconnect and some other recovery stuff, money is too tight for new lights right now. It's hard to tell what they will look like until I mount them up there and turn them on anyway. I might make a temp wiring harness and throw them on the roof at night just to see how it looks.

Here's a crappy photoshop job I did a while back with the lights, slightly out of scale though..

I don't want to mount them in a fixed position any higher than that, but I also don't want to break all the lenses with tree branches. I still might mount them higher, and make them fold back into the basket out of side and out of the way. Either that or make some sort of quick disconnect mount and mount them like they are in the picture.

 

[Paraphoe]

Not sure how off the sizing is with the photoshop job, but they look HUGE! Haha

 

[dkchrist]

just wondering where did the bumper come from on the ranger?

 

[brianjwilson]

just wondering where did the bumper come from on the ranger?

It was a custom job from badlandbumpers.com in Seattle

 

[Burns]

Very nice man


Hope it stays looking great for a long time

 

[brazzle]

gorgeous.

i wish i had the guts (or skills, or brains) to mod my '02 Ex

 

[Rusty]

for some reason i am not able to see any pics... nothing shows up!? is it me or is there none actually there?

 

[FlyBoyCoe]

Beautiful SportTrac Brian! I'm going to have to show your pics to a buddy of mine with a ST for inspiration. You've got yourself a very good looking truck there. Congrats!

 

[brianjwilson]

Thanks for the compliments. My server has short lapses where it won't display pictures. Should be good now