Mounting Lights to Aftermarket Bumper

I am trying to mount my Baja Designs Squadron-R fog lights to my CBI Baja Hybrid Bumper for my Tundra. Full transparency: this is the first time I am mounting lights to an aftermarket bumper and I have 0 experience with any of this.

The brackets BD provide are too short and these XL 4x4TruckLED brackets I found are also too short (or too long if you flip them).

I've been searching online for solutions, but I'm so novice that I don't think I'm searching for the right things.

Suggestions, tutorials, resources, etc. would be great help!

 

What if you flip the light so the bracket doesn’t go all the way across the light body? Hopefully that makes sense. The light can be oriented in the other direction you can flip the lens also if the logo not being up right bothers you etc.

 

@Baja Designs do you have taller brackets that could help?

@memario1214 how about you, Sir? Anything in the warehouse that could solve this?

 

I thought that flipping the bracket would work, but didn't know the lens could flip too or I would have suggested it.

 

Yea lens can be flipped also.

 

Just eyeballing it I think there would still need to be a bracket in between these two. The little silver ones would be in the same position demonstrated with the long one, and if you flip the long one then the light will be too low and hit the lower bar. I think, anyway.

 

Looking at the pics hard to tell. But spacers might be need to clear that front tube

 

Also just to mention this isn’t uncommon on aftermarket products with so many combinations available some tweaking is always needed.

 

You are advocating for tweaking?! Hurry, everyone! Hide the copper and catalytic converters!

 

Alot of tweaking have you seen my stock tundra on 35s?

 

I have seen your build. LOL

 

lol I’m aware.

 

I just didn't know tweaking was how you got there. LOL

 

All the tweaking

 

Exactly the issue with the long one; once flipped, it's too long and hits the lower bar.

 

Clearing the front tube is the issue! I'll go for spaces

I'll try spacers and see how it fits! I was worried spacers might not be strong/stable enough, but it seems like that shouldn't be a concern?

 

No concern there

 

Found the sweet spot. Is this the right idea? Secure enough?

 

I agree the brackets are a little to short, but I still mounted my BD like that and I find it works good at night. I do like that spacer though. I might try that when I take my bumper off to re-powder coat or line-x (haven’t decided yet) this summer.

 

Since you have the longer brackets, personally I would bolt those up to the bumper flip the light, and determine where you would need the screw hole to be for your ideal light placement, then drill a new hole in the long brackets. The spacer method that you have also should work just fine. Like Rey said you gotta tweak till you like the result. I can also grab a picture of my truck since I did something very similar to make a fog light fit.

 

Here is the modification I made. I was hitting the bottom tube with the SAE fog light which was not allowing me to angle it far enough down. So I cut the bracket and moved the bolt up. It is damn near impossible to tell from the front unless you are sitting exactly level with the front bumper.

 

Nice! How long is that spacer ?

 

3/4”

 

Brilliant idea. Makes me kick myself that I didn't think to do it!

 

Exactly what I ended up doing, but with washers between bolt/bracket and spacer/bumper. What size bolt is that?

 

Thank you sir!

 

Great success! (Borat voice)

 

Good start but you’ve got a lot of room for more lights!