So, just got finished installing a Rigid SR2 20" bar. I chose Rigid because you can really tweak the product for what you want. My bar is half driving LED's and half Hyperspot. So, I should get a flood effect directly in front of the truck as well as serious distance from the spots. Some of you may remember that I had been debating a headlight projector retrofit or some Rigid Q2 lights in either the fog location or on either side of my front plate. All three of those options had problems for me. MA is militant on inspections and any alteration to stock lights is a fail. I like cruising with my fogs on so I didn't want to have bright Q2 lights there as you can't use them in traffic. Lastly, installing the Q2's on either side of my plate would have made connecting my plow wiring difficult as they would take pretty much the whole space between where the plate stops and where the tow hooks begin. It would not be fun fishing the wires around the lights with cold hands. I also considered removing or moving my front plate as Rigid makes a mount for that area, but removing would be an issue at inspection and perhaps the small town cop looking for something to do and moving wouldn't look correct to me. So, I was looking at my grill the other day and came up with my solution. Pics below. I mounted the SR2 bar to the bottom of the grill after removing some of the factory mesh from the opening. It easily cut out with wire snips. I had to shim it up a touch to keep the gaps even between the bottom of the grill and the first cross bar. I used some small aluminum bar stock I had on the shelf. Then I simply grounded to the battery and used upfitter 1 to switch the light. No need for Rigid's harness with fuses and a relay and the upfitters already have that covered. I used one of the factory firewall pass through to make it simple. I will head out tonight to level it and take a few pics in the dark. Should be some killer output. Once it's level I'll take some black enamel and touch up the leveling bolts, mounting bolts, and shims to help them all blend in.

 

Looks great Rodney!

 

Thanks Andre! I prefer plug and play installs, but ones that require a little thought and ingenuity seem more rewarding at times. Can't wait til dark to light up the night!

 

Very nice! Looking forward to night pics.

 

That looks like a great spot for that! I have a question on the mounts you came up with. Are those attached just to the lower chrome element in the grille?

 

The side mounts came with it. There are two sets and I used the low profile ones. Yes, I drilled through the lower cross piece of the grill albeit the black plastic one that is lower and more rearward rather than the chrome part out front. To add strength since it is indeed plastic, I used more of the aluminum bar stock I shimmed with under the mounting holes. So, where it's bolted to is sandwiched between 3-4" inches of aluminum to help spread the load and and strength.

 

black tape or black sharpie that aluminum...it's drawing attention from the lights. Other than that, it's perfect (in my opinion)!

 

Read the last line of my initial post...

 

I was blinded by the light?

sorry...so embarrassed

 

That's what I get for writing such a long winded post! Lost u before the end...

 

"it's not you, it's me"

 

LOLOL!!!!!

 

Looks good!

If you have any more pics of the mounting you did for the bar, I would love to see it. I am thinking of getting an LED bar and mounting it in the same spot.

 

I had my nose pointed off the road some so the pics don't really represent what I was seeing. People kept coming up behind me though. Anyways, low beams:



High beams:



Rigid:



Front:



And mounting close up for BigF350:

 

Amplify what you see by about ten and that would be a more correct assessment of what I was seeing... I'll have to try again with something like a building or a wall to give the correct effect in a picture. When I came down my driveway, which is almost 500 feet long, I could see in all my windows!