The installation process is different for individual car models.
Roof light bar installation.
This is a straight light bar that mou.
Depending on the size or manufacturer of your led light bar mounting brackets differ.
While mounting a light bar on the bullbar is often easiest the roof mounted option is far more popular freeing up space on the bullbar for traditional driving lights.
Vision x xpi led light bar roof mount install completed.
Smaller light bars around 4 to 12 inches may have one or more threaded studs at the housing bottom.
The cabling is run along the length of the roof attached to the roof rack or rail and in the case of a ute will generally loop across to either the sports bar or headboard of the tray itself and head down to the chassis rail then off to the engine bay.
Roof mount led light bar install with pics i bought a 40 light bar back in april and never got around to installing it partly because army schedule and partly for lack of information on 3rd gen light bar installs.
Whilst bright whopping domin8r led lightbars are ideal for long range and wide spread led light you may be chasing a simpler led worklight setup you can install an illuminator 6 led lightbar easily mounted to your steel roof rack you can aim this awesome light to the rear of your vehicle and if you tend to hit the tracks late at night wire it using the same wiring harness to trigger.
This looks beautiful after the installation because the light spreading from the led increases the overall attraction.
How to install led light bar mounts.
Nowadays owners are posting videos online about installing led light bar on the roof.
Some roof rack manufacturers may have optional light bar mounting brackets like this rola titan roof tray which makes installation as simple as spinning a few spanners.
Light bar installation in this video we are installing a 50 inch light bar from auxbeam on a 2004 gmc sierra pick up.
They know what works and what doesn t and can definitely get you set up with not only a light bar bracket but also the right mounting and wiring components to make it all work.
When having the roof rack installed we added a front 3 slat cross member so that we could mount a light bar it was a 65 addition.
We choose the nilight 52 300w spot and flood combination led light bar because it has both spot and flood lenses in one bar was affordable and had decent reviews on amazon.