Ditch lights, vibration driving me nuts.

[bonjo2]

First time with ditch lights. They are vibrating like mad. I tried XL 4” and then some s2 and not much difference. The 4” perfect sitting still, but enough to cause seizures to light sensitive deer. 2

The eBay steel a little worse than the thick AAL, but both driving me nuts.

how do the Baja guys mount their xl80?

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[bonjo2]

2” are worthless.

 

[Shrek The Raptor]

I don’t think I’ve seen a ranger either anything bigger than a ss3 or lp4 on our brackets.
SDHQ seems to have a solution with some rubber spacers to keep vibration down and they’re running the lp4s.

 

[jordantii]

Just think about what your asking the bracket to do. It's a lever. I have the AAL (second set as the first was not level, this set is better but had to clearance them to the hood because they touched) with Nacho Supreme 80's. Do they vibrate a little? Yes. Do I care that much? Not really. If you find a completely still set let us all know!

 

[bonjo2]

I added a bit of rubber that has adhesive on one side (5mm) under the hood, above the mount, and will try and find a rubber bumper thing for the topside. There is a clear open hole in the AAL mount on each side. I'll post photos if it works out. I'll probably cut a 1.5" circle out of some PPF/Propeller edge guard to place under the bumper.

The baja race truck runs xl80's and now that I've exp a 4" 80 watt light, I cannot go back. They pick up where the high beams fall off on the side. Pretty amazing. Lots of glowing eyes at night.

 

[NM Mike]

I’m using the rigid D pro series pods on the AAL mounts and have no vibration on my passenger side and a slight vibration on the driver’s side light. I just came back from a week of mud bogging during elk season, so the light mount may have loosened a bit, as it didn’t vibrate before the hunt. I think the A pillar mounts might be less prone to vibration than the hood mount style brackets, but that is speculation on my part.

 

[Trimjb]

Go pics of the ditch lights y'all are using?
I moved to deer country Cumberland Plateau and could probably use them.

 

[jordantii]

Go pics of the ditch lights y'all are using?
I moved to deer country Cumberland Plateau and could probably use them.

Nacho Supprem 80's

 

[Shrek The Raptor]

Go pics of the ditch lights y'all are using?
I moved to deer country Cumberland Plateau and could probably use them.

AAL with antenna brackets on driver side with SS3’s. I had SS5’s up there for a week but couldn’t deal with the vibration.

 

[bgn]

I run the SDHQ brackets that have rubber stoppers between them and the hood.

 

[Trimjb]

AAL with antenna brackets on driver side with SS3’s. I had SS5’s up there for a week but couldn’t deal with the vibration.

Thanks for the info.
Interesting set up.

 

[NM Mike]

Rigid D pro series light on AAL mounts

 

[NM Mike]

Top pic is low beam without ditch lights, bottom pic is low beam with ditch lights

 

[bonjo2]

These little threaded silicone rubber bumpermade a huge difference. A couple turns on bottom bolt using a flat 10mm wrench to snug against hood and hold in place while tightening the top nyloc bolt. Pretty solid.

So 3/16” (not 1/4” like I mentioned) rubber strip 1.5x2.5 between underside of hood and the bolted on bottom bracket.

I think a better design would have fixed bumpers under AND adjustable bumpers on top and/or 1/4” stainless bracket. Or, make perm mount and skip all this bolt-on stuff.

 

[bonjo2]

I’ll post an installed photo once I find time to cut a couple little bits of ppf. Maybe next week.

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