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Old 01-17-2018, 04:31 PM
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I cut up my Platnum grill

I was a little nervous, but decided to dive in! What do you think?
 
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Old 01-17-2018, 04:34 PM
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I think looks great!
 
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Looks sweet! Bet its bright as ***** too.
 
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They’re the osram LED’s which use 5 watts instead of the CREE 3 watt led’s. They have retina burning brightness!
 
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That is awesome!

Front plate has to go though...
 
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Very clean. Well done.
 
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Looks great!

Can you give us some details as far as how you mounted the lights?

Been looking to do this for my lariat but haven't found anyone doing mounts yet. Rough country said they are working on it.....

details (and pics!) please.
 
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Fire! Fire! Your truck is on Fire! White Hot Fire!!!
 
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First I carefully removed the chrome trim pieces. Then I cut the grill to make room for the grill
 
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If I needed to, I wanted to be able to return the truck to stock using a new grill. So I made these washers. I ground two straight edges from the washer and used a nutsert to make the mounts for the lower bracket..
 
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This is a picture of the upper mounts installed and the second picture is the lower mount with the us tom washers installed.
 
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Here is a pix of both mounts installed prior to the side mounts.
 
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I don’t have pix with the led mounts. I welded arms to the main bracket, drilled them and mounted the lights. I painted them gloss black, but don’t like the results. I’m gonna remove them and get them powder coated.

i hope this helps.
 
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Lastly, I taped, then cut the chrome trim that I had removed earlier to size. Finally, I snapped them back into place.
 
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Wow look awesome
 


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