Hey guys,
I'm looking into fab'n a light bar that gos over the top of my front cab to hold my KC lights. Has any one made there own? Pics? Ideas? Whats the best way to rought the wiring?

Thanks
Aaron
88 4runner

 

well i would route the wiring through the tube of the light bar itself, once my bed cage is done thats what i plan on doing.

 

Depends on where you will be mounting your relays... Also, depends on how permanent you want to make it. If you plan on putting the relays in the engine bay, run your wires either inside the bar itself, or attached to the back of it... then along your truck and down the windshields edge, and tape it down with black electrical tape, and down into the engine bay. The tape will not hold up in the rain though, there might be some more permanent 3M tape that you can use though. You also could run then in the door, on the outside of the weather stripping (so that it does not leak) and down the door frame, and into the engine bay.

 

I have a KC Light bar, Obviously I didn't fab it up. However, My wires run along the back of the bar and underneath it, through two holes drilled just above the door then siliconed to prevent leaking. They then run under the trim down behind the dash, where they hit the relays and then onto the switches and battery from there.

 

I was bored a couple summers and built this car as a joke. Built the brush-guard out of scrap bed-frame material and gas-pipe, welded to the frame rails and through the fenders to the firewall reinforced w/ steel plate. I think it could take out small trees. Ghettoed in nerf-bars on the sides and lifted the front about 3 inches. (ran out of time/motivation to lift the back and build a rear bumper) Anyways, the light-bar I fabbed is part of the roof-rack. It uses two motor assemblies from pop-up headlights to rotate the light bar 90 degrees (pic shows bar in the open position) when you hit a switch, the bar rotates down and looks like one of those Yakima roof-rack air spoilers. Works great, even after beating the car to death (blew up the motor within a month of course! haha!) I just drilled a hole in the roof for the wires (w/ chafe-guarding and silicone of course). This is a very ghetto way of doing things, but might give you some ideas.

 

I hope nobody notices the Idaho plates joking