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.
Roof light bar installation.
Probably the best way to find out which vehicle specific light bar bracket to use is to first contact headlight revolution.
Depending on the size or manufacturer of your led light bar mounting brackets differ.
Nowadays owners are posting videos online about installing led light bar on the roof.
The installation process is different for individual car models.
This is a straight light bar that mou.
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.
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.
Smaller light bars around 4 to 12 inches may have one or more threaded studs at the housing bottom.
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.
Light bar installation in this video we are installing a 50 inch light bar from auxbeam on a 2004 gmc sierra pick up.
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.
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.
Vision x xpi led light bar roof mount install completed.
A recent trend is installing the light bar on the roof of the car.
This video shows how easy it is to diy install the 42 inch stedi st4k 80 led light bar to the rhino roof rack on a ford ranger raptor.
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.