Ditch lights, vibration driving me nuts.

[Shrek The Raptor]

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.

Ahh so you put a bumper under the top side of the bracket to rest on the hood, I like that idea

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[sikedsyko]

I have BD Squadrons on the FSE LA Titanium brackets and its about as rigid as you could reasonably expect for the way those ditch lights get mounted.

 

[bonjo2]

I think Chromoly, SS, Ti, or cast alu better. It’s pretty solid now, but probably should have been tested with the lights the guys on tv use. After more research, probably should have gone with sdhq, triple R or FSE TI . But, the fit and angle of the AAL pretty awesome.

 

[hjmpanzr]

I installed Baja Design XL80s with SDHQ brackets a couple days ago. No significant or noticeable vibration yet.

 

[Raptor812]

I installed Baja Design XL80s with SDHQ brackets a couple days ago. No significant or noticeable vibration yet.

What bracket (for the XL80 itself) are you using? looks thicker than the standard bracket. I like seeing others who went with a black instead of stainless bracket and black hardware. I have the same setup but went with black titanium hardware for the lights.

 

[Raptor812]

 

[hjmpanzr]

What bracket (for the XL80 itself) are you using? looks thicker than the standard bracket. I like seeing others who went with a black instead of stainless bracket and black hardware. I have the same setup but went with black titanium hardware for the lights.

I had these on my gen 3 raptor. I use the brackets from Light Brackets https://lightbrackets.com/products/baja-designs-xl-bracket-heavy-duty?variant=51922393235737

They are thicker than the BD brackets or any other I’ve seen. In comparison with other black brackets they are one of the few that comes with black hardware (and the hardware is slightly different from BD but BD hardware works as well). I think they are pretty well priced compared to other black brackets, although painting BD brackets with Steelit would be less expensive but I don’t think it would hold up as well.

 

[Raptor812]

Funny enough, my XL80's came off my 3rd gen Raptor as well. I've had a couple sets of XL80's over the years. The light bracket I'm using is from my original set that I had powder coated probably 8-9 yrs ago. It looks like new still somehow.

I'll check those brackets out.

 

[hjmpanzr]

Nice. They do look good for having them that long. I’ve installed XL80s with SDHQ mounts on gen1, 2, and 3 raptors and now on the RR. RR was easiest, gen 1 was the worst.

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