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Awesome setup! This is what I wanted to do when I bought my Ram, but found out about the active grill shutters after buying it... would love to have a setup like this. On my old tacoma I added a mesh grill and had 7" round spots behind the grill and a 30" lightbar as well.
The active grille shutters can be removed without codes or cel coming on as long as you leave just the motor connected and zip tied up out of the way. That’s what I had to do. Then you have plenty of room to add behind the grille. Also there’s a company called Dark dune that makes a bracket that fits under the grille at the bumper to install those round lights you have if you don’t want to mess with the grille shutters.
I’ve had to modify some of those of those brackets for customers running larger lights. Customers were getting so much bounce the lights were ineffective. They are probably great for smaller lights but customers running larger baja designs were getting a lot of bounce. We are releasing a bracket that can be used for that area soon. Super easy installation as well. Just finalizing testing and design on them.
I may be more interested in these than running the 30" bar in the bumper to be honest. I'm def. watching for a post on them haha
I have I stalled alot of parts on trucks over the years. The actual brackets were not crazy difficult to install, their big challenge was getting into the area. Very tight working area.
Install our brackets under the active air dam brackets and you should be fine. Let us know if you have any questions.
On our webpage we have the part number to replace the grill if you have the solid one.
I went and bought a replacement grill since I had a solid one since I was told by many sites it was needed. After removing the grill to swap it over, I just took the solid part out of the grill and reinstalled the mesh part with sensors and everything. Now I have a brand new useless grill I don't need, and cant return.
Many people, almost all if you do not have a diesel version, will have a closed solid grill part as we all need to swap to the open (or diesel) version of the lower grill
I personally haven't installed one on an ecodiesel so hopefully someone that has can chime in. I have a local customer with an ecodiesel that may be interested in one but I haven't heard for sure yet.
What year and model is your truck? It was my understanding the solid grills were one piece. All of the light bars I have personally installed have had the mesh lower grill but had a U shaped solid piece that unclips very easily from the backside. Perhaps you can sell your grill to someone on here that needs one. We sell a lot of these brackets so I know a lot of people are buying the replacement grills. Perhaps someone that needs one can buy it off of you and help both of you out?
19' Bighorn with a hemi.
That’s interesting. First time hearing that. If you want to sell the piece you bought, I’m sure someone on here needs it.
Looking forward to seeing it.
I wished so too but will be postponed as my friend is too busy working...
It's a 1 man job.I wished so too but will be postponed as my friend is too busy working...
