There probably is some loss of light that occurs but there are a bunch of photos on here or videos on youtube and they seem to still work pretty good. I dont have any personal experience here (yet) but the clean hidden look is a must for me!
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5th Gen Ram 1500 30" Light Bar Bracket Set
- Thread starter Shifts And Grins Fab
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Got mine today these look awesome!! Just curious is there a light bar width range that these work best for? some of the "30 inch" light bars ive been looking at say their total with is around 32 inches would those work? Thanks!
Oh yeah I saw your post on the “what did you do to your ram today” thread, thanks for the insight!
Waterfowler41
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The brackets have some play to them, I based my dims off the diode dynamics 30” bar so try to stay within a a half inch or so if the DD 30” bar.
Yeah I bought the Amazon one that measures around 32” from each edge and it’s a little bit more work lol. It’s all good I think I have it worked out
What kind of mods did you make to fit the 32 inch? I’m looking at one that’s 32.19 wide.
I'm going to check on a few things tomorrow or saturday morning. I believe it would fit without the things I did.. Let's just say I got a little excited and didn't follow instructions 100%, but some how I made everything work pretty darn great. I'll report back more tomorrow. Possibly Saturday.
Sorry for the delayed reply. It should be about 32.5" between the brackets. There should be a little wiggle room as well. Let us know if you have any other questions.
Did you get it all worked out? Just curious what bar it is you got and what the measurements were. Also what needed to be done? Thank you for any info. We appreciate you all.
ferraiolo1
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Do you have any of these left?
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We have several sets at powder coat. We will be ordering more materials soon as well because they are going quicker than we can build them and get them powder coated.
Lead times are varying between 1-3 weeks on these right now.
It was just my fault for not reading some instructions haha. I figured it out.
CMil527
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Are you guys using straight or curved light bars?
Most have used straight that I have talked to but a few have used curved. I think it is a lot tighter with curved. If I recall correctly a few that used curved removed the plastic grill and pushed the bar out flush with that opening. I'll see if I can find any of those messages and pictures.
So I tried to install my light bar and brackets tonight, looks like my truck does not have the preexisting holes seen on waterfowlers rebel. The bumper supports next to his brackets are quite different than mine, my bighorn has much beefier and wider ones and curve on the sides making it impossible for the brackets to fit flush next to them. Also I have to flip my brackets around and for them to be wide enough for the diode dynamics 30” bar relative to the way waterfowler had his set up, I think I have to drill a few holes, so I’ll do that tomorrow i guess unless I’m missing something?
@Shifts And Grins Fab Here are a few photos from under my truck. I focused on the passenger side since I couldn’t get a wide enough angle but the driver side is the exact same.
So to elaborate, the top holes being used were already there on both sides, I had to drill the bottom holes. In order to fit the Diode Dynamics light bar which is 31.5 inches total with the brackets this way I had to flip them around to make them wider. And since the brackets are not perfectly symmetrical I had to put the driver bracket on passenger side and vice versa, otherwise the light bar would have been sitting to low in the grille for most of the light to shoot out. As you can see the bumper support bracket hits the light bar brackets and stop them from going any wider ( which is why I had to flip, and then swap the brackets around. ) actually in the photo you can see the bottom right corner of the bracket is sitting behind the bumper support bracket, that’s where it contacted on the bottom. The top side is to tall to slide under the curving bumper bracket so it’s just sitting flush against it.
If the brackets were just slightly shorter, I may have been able to use the two bolts of that bumper support bracket but I’m not sure if they would line up with the light bar bracket holes, I thought about cutting the brackets shorter to go that route but that seemed like a lot of work lol.
I’m pretty happy with the brackets themselves, seems like I could mount a pretty heavy light bar to em and never have to worry about it. Also including the 4 bolts in the box was awesome, saved me a trip to Home Depot!
Im happy to take measurements or answer any more questions, thanks for making these!
So to elaborate, the top holes being used were already there on both sides, I had to drill the bottom holes. In order to fit the Diode Dynamics light bar which is 31.5 inches total with the brackets this way I had to flip them around to make them wider. And since the brackets are not perfectly symmetrical I had to put the driver bracket on passenger side and vice versa, otherwise the light bar would have been sitting to low in the grille for most of the light to shoot out. As you can see the bumper support bracket hits the light bar brackets and stop them from going any wider ( which is why I had to flip, and then swap the brackets around. ) actually in the photo you can see the bottom right corner of the bracket is sitting behind the bumper support bracket, that’s where it contacted on the bottom. The top side is to tall to slide under the curving bumper bracket so it’s just sitting flush against it.
If the brackets were just slightly shorter, I may have been able to use the two bolts of that bumper support bracket but I’m not sure if they would line up with the light bar bracket holes, I thought about cutting the brackets shorter to go that route but that seemed like a lot of work lol.
I’m pretty happy with the brackets themselves, seems like I could mount a pretty heavy light bar to em and never have to worry about it. Also including the 4 bolts in the box was awesome, saved me a trip to Home Depot!
Im happy to take measurements or answer any more questions, thanks for making these!
It looks like you truck uses an extra bracket not on the Rebel but the holes for those are there. I think with the brackets flipped (back to the original side) and bolted under that factory bracket, it should have put you in the correct place. The new brackets have more adjustment to them as well. It's pretty hard to tell from the pictures but it looks like that is what I am seeing. Thank you very much for the feedback and I am glad you got your bar installed. Looks great. I can't wait for our TRX to come in so we can outfit it with lots of Diode Dynamics lights.
