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Just got some rectangular lights that I wanna stick in the front bumper. Any advice on how I should attach them?
The housing has a single screw&nut to attach it with, and the housing is reversible, so the bracket can either be on top of or below the light.
theres been a few threads on oem lamps that will fit into these spots. I think the common one was an xterra fog lamp? cant remember. maybe you can look those lamps up and copy them.
.... I think the common one was an xterra fog lamp....
I like the rectangular early XTerra and some Pathfinder fogs, too.
There's a bracket that holds the foglight housing fro behind. Bracket has a bowl-shaped part that mates with ball-shaped bump on back of fog light housing. Single screw to tighten in position. Need to make adapter so bracket mounts to the bumper.
I'm thinking of mounting mine in place of the turn signals, IF I could relocate turns to the grille.
Why with a rivet and not just two nuts and a lock washer?
Rivets give a smooth clean look, they are hard to snag with your leg. You can use two rivets in the bracket and it won't be able to rotate and the lights won't shift.
How does one connect two nuts with a lock washer.
A jam nut makes a locking washer overkill and the same goes with using a lock washer making a jam nut overkill.
Heck you can run the bolt from the inside and put spike capped or acorn nuts on the outside if that's the look you want.
Rivets give a smooth clean look, they are hard to snag with your leg. You can use two rivets in the bracket and it won't be able to rotate and the lights won't shift.
How does one connect two nuts with a lock washer.
A jam nut makes a locking washer overkill and the same goes with using a lock washer making a jam nut overkill.
Heck you can run the bolt from the inside and put spike capped or acorn nuts on the outside if that's the look you want.
I was imagining drilling a hole and putting one jam nut on the bolt inside the bumper, and one outside. Guess that's overkill, but that's what a lack of knowledge of hardware gets you. Thanks for explaining that for me.
My problem is that the included bracket for these lights is crap, so if have to make our find a new one. They're curved plastic that mates to a curved surface on the housing and just holds the light in place by (not much) friction.
I was imagining drilling a hole and putting one jam nut on the bolt inside the bumper, and one outside. Guess that's overkill, but that's what a lack of knowledge of hardware gets you. Thanks for explaining that for me.
My problem is that the included bracket for these lights is crap, so if have to make our find a new one. They're curved plastic that mates to a curved surface on the housing and just holds the light in place by (not much) friction.
I can't really do a detailed post on my phone, it drives me crazy when I type out a long post then it decides to reload the page while I try to add pictures or drawings.
A jam nut is used to lock a threaded piece in place, you can find an example of this on your tierod ends. The tierod end is threaded internally and there is a thin nut behind it (go have a look at you left/drivers side) the jam nut and tie rod end are twisted against each other (jam nut twists outward/down, tierod twists up/in) when you do this they they will bind/jam the thread.
A jam nut is also not as thick as a "regular" nut, typically about have as thick. There is some kind of engineering magic going on with this thinner nut that has to do with how many threads are contained I'm not really prepared to explain. Just know that any nut can be used like a jam nut but is not a jam nut.
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Ok so if your post/stud coming out of that is long enough to protrude thru the bumper steel with the nut shown (this is the adjusting nut, it clamps the convex and concave pieces shown together and allows you to adjust the angle of the lamp) with a second nut.
So if your post is long enough you would be able to just drill a hole and cinch it up with some nuts. (Top)
If not you will need a new bracket cut and bend to fit so the light is centered in the opening.
You'll still use the adjusting parts it came with to aim it in both cases.
Your first example is what I had in mind. I'm 95% sure the bolt would be long enough, and I could always slap an acorn nut on top to make it look cleaner. I could see the rivet example being too "tall" and making the light miss the bumper opening a bit.
CO, this is what I did today instead of troubleshooting my oxygen sensor.
Fifteen dollar fog lights and $1.50 Amber LEDs from the asinine Wish App. I'm planning on cutting off the extra long bolts when I get ahold of an angle grinder.
Ambers only
Ambers and fogs
Fog light pattern
MOAR LIGHTS!!!
Last edited by Theyseemespoolin; Oct 2, 2019 at 06:56 PM.
Nice!
Would like to see the cut-off on the fog light beam, though Try shining it on aa blank, flat wall.
I'll try and remember to do that for you. I'm sure my cutoff will be awful, the lights are pointed down a bit cause I didn't measure exactly right when I drilled the hole for the carriage bolt.
Sep 5, 2019 | 10:47 AM
Try shining it on aa blank, flat wall.
