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Chevk588

Chevk588

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Trying to find a universal headlight for my rig . Planning on mounting them outside the tube any suggestions?
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kinda wondering what you mean by headlight,.. something for use on the road?

if you mean offroad, I always liked my KC set up.. 4 KCs in a row.. the 2 outer KCs were fog lamps for a wide spread, and the 2 inner were daylighters
 
Yeah I’m not worried about on road should have clarified, she’s a trailer queen I was looking at the KC lights seem to be the way to go .
 
Mind if I piggyback on your thread?

I need some high/low headlights for my toyota. The rad support is kinda smashed to shit. I was thinking some 7" rounds, and a universal mount like this to screw to what's left of the rad support. Maybe even weld in a couple chunks of tin to beef up the front clip and stick the mounts to.
https://www.amazon.ca/Headlight-Mounting-Bracket-Harness-Davidson/dp/B07Q1ZHKZB

Any thoughts?
 
I have 2 pair of KC spot beams and a pair of wide beams, separate switches. Work well.
 
Squamch,

if you are lookin for something cool, and you or a friend has body skills.. maybe just go to a junkyard and grab some lights off some ancient vehicle.. maybe do a little glass work to make them look like it was meant to be
 
Are you after hi-low beam function or do you just want lights in the headlight location? If you don't need hi-low pick a flavor of LED pod that suits what you're willing to spend and go.

Squamch said:
Mind if I piggyback on your thread?

I need some high/low headlights for my toyota. The rad support is kinda smashed to shit. I was thinking some 7" rounds, and a universal mount like this to screw to what's left of the rad support. Maybe even weld in a couple chunks of tin to beef up the front clip and stick the mounts to.
https://www.amazon.ca/Headlight-Moun.../dp/B07Q1ZHKZB

Any thoughts?
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Stick tabs on where you can + Motorcycle headlight assemblies?

https://4into1.com/build-your-own-7-...unt-headlight/
 
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TrikeKid said:
Are you after hi-low beam function or do you just want lights in the headlight location? If you don't need hi-low pick a flavor of LED pod that suits what you're willing to spend and go.



Stick tabs on where you can + Motorcycle headlight assemblies?

https://4into1.com/build-your-own-7-...unt-headlight/
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Yeah I want high and low beam function so I can street it as needed.
Those look pretty good actually. I'd kind of like LED, just since the rest of the lighting is LED, but I suppose I could always swap them into those buckets if need be. The previous owner just bolted a couple tractor lights in there, but those are a little too heaty.
 
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Squamch said:
Yeah I want high and low beam function so I can street it as needed.
Those look pretty good actually. I'd kind of like LED, just since the rest of the lighting is LED, but I suppose I could always swap them into those buckets if need be. The previous owner just bolted a couple tractor lights in there, but those are a little too heaty.
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Some of the drop in Wrangler/Harley 7" LED headlights have spots for off-road light style mounting brackets, at least the ones I bought off Amazon years ago did.
 
Little lights are rigid pods (which put out a surprising amount of light) for low and the spot bar comes on for high. It works really well.

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Wrangler retrofit LED lights for me with amber/white trim rings for markers/turn-signals (my actual signals are mostly blocked by my winch) plus motorcycle mounts, and I have legal headlights in my Jeep.

You can also get oldschool KC style buckets for 7" round headlights out of the dune buggy world, if you want something tab mountable instead of baffle mountable.
 
So I decided to get two 4” light bars to use as head lights I’ll post some pics once I get them installed gotta make a couple mounts and finish the grille should be done Monday /Tuesday
 
The mounting rings I used:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Headlights themselves:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I wired them so that with markers on, the trim rings are on and white, turn signal on, the trim ring blinks amber in time with the regular signal. The lights themselves when you turn off the amber, the white has a delay to come back on for a few seconds, so markers on is a white ring, signal on is amber-off-amber-off and a few seconds after you turn the signal off, the ring comes back to white (if the markers are on).

Edit: KC style dunebuggy headlight bucket (no affiliation with this seller, just what Google found me quick here):
https://www.jbugs.com/product/9307-...9gJ7yjdAKdjx4UJ0KFR0WxvJj9oVVtagaAiEXEALw_wcB
 
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