Mtrhd0024
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- 1990
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So after getting four Hella 700ff's for Christmas last year, I never got around to mounting em!
Originally I was going to make a custom tube bumper for my truck, and mount them to that. But after some discussion and debate with my father, plus the expense of building a bumper like that, I opted for something slightly different!
Sorry for the poor quality pictures, but I just finished this up tonight, and this is the best I can do until daytime! I'm only mounting two for now, but let me know what you think!
They're mounted flush in the grille, via mounting brackets I made that bolt to the frame. They're both made out of 1-1/2" by 3/8" thick flat steel stock, and those suckers are STOUT! I didn't want them flexing while I was driving down the road (causing my lights to bob up and down) so I over-engineered em a bit!
The inside of the grille is going to get painted satin black, and the edge of the grille (the chrome bit in the front) will get painted metallic silver, since its dulled a bit in 20 years! I have yet to wire them up, but hopefully that will happen tomorrow night!
And a few extra pictures from during construction:
I've got some more pictures I'll put up later, but I cut the grille so that the plastic "Hella" light covers will still fit on the light!
Opinions? Questions? Its something relatively different, so I want to know what you guys think!
Originally I was going to make a custom tube bumper for my truck, and mount them to that. But after some discussion and debate with my father, plus the expense of building a bumper like that, I opted for something slightly different!
Sorry for the poor quality pictures, but I just finished this up tonight, and this is the best I can do until daytime! I'm only mounting two for now, but let me know what you think!
They're mounted flush in the grille, via mounting brackets I made that bolt to the frame. They're both made out of 1-1/2" by 3/8" thick flat steel stock, and those suckers are STOUT! I didn't want them flexing while I was driving down the road (causing my lights to bob up and down) so I over-engineered em a bit!
The inside of the grille is going to get painted satin black, and the edge of the grille (the chrome bit in the front) will get painted metallic silver, since its dulled a bit in 20 years! I have yet to wire them up, but hopefully that will happen tomorrow night!
And a few extra pictures from during construction:
I've got some more pictures I'll put up later, but I cut the grille so that the plastic "Hella" light covers will still fit on the light!
Opinions? Questions? Its something relatively different, so I want to know what you guys think!