AAL highline lights - on sport fenders!

[Arrowhead]

American Adventure Labs says on their website they think their light kits might work with one piece sport fenders but haven't tried it. So I thought I'd give it a try and I'm very pleased. It took a bit of fitting but I think they came out great. The contour is not exact but not off enough to be obvious. The trick is to trim the fender up high so it removes all of the opening for the original lights and it leaves a straight edge. Being the front edge is cut up a little high, I did add a couple of washers to the front bracket to tilt the light up a bit in front so it had a better fit with the fender.

So before anyone asks:
I don't like the raised Rubicon fenders so I trimmed my sport fenders. I like the symmetrical look front to rear.

Yes I get the hyper flash for the directional indicators and the bulb out warning. But I have a Tazer light and have to see if that will fix it or if I have to upgrade to a full Tazer or not bother - it doesn't really bother me.

Rough trimming of the fender

At first I just trimmed across the existing light opening, but that didn't look good at all

Trimming higher let it fit much better

Even having trimmed the lower lips off the fenders and trimming for the lights, I am still able to run the inner fenders. They are bolted on top with the two original bolts, one push pin at the lower rear and one at the lower front.

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[seanjonesSUPERTRAMP]

it looks good to me. have you reached to AAL and showed them this ?

 

[Chrishegs27]

Looks great! Excited to see if the taser light works to fix the hyper flash and bulb out indicator. Since you still have the stock halogen headlights any chance you could take a picture to see how the lights look while both on?

 

[Arrowhead]

Looks great! Excited to see if the taser light works to fix the hyper flash and bulb out indicator. Since you still have the stock halogen headlights any chance you could take a picture to see how the lights look while both on?

I actually had already replaced the headlight bulbs with LED

https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipN8zYVithq6jZZD8nSr5eT7zuKo3m9xwpvRPj7j

 

[Arrowhead]

it looks good to me. have you reached to AAL and showed them this ?

Not yet I just put them on Friday night

 

[seanjonesSUPERTRAMP]

What tool did you use to cut the fenders ? would a sharp razor blade knife do the job ?

edit - looking on their site to order it asks if you have a rubicon or Sahara . which did you order ?

 

[Arrowhead]

What tool did you use to cut the fenders ? would a sharp razor blade knife do the job ?

edit - looking on their site to order it asks if you have a rubicon or Sahara . which did you order ?

Sahara/Moab

I used a 4" angle grinder with a cutoff wheel to rough it in then used a right angle die grinder with a 2" sanding disc to contour the edges. Then followed up with 80 grit on a hard sanding block to straighten and smooth the edge. I don't think I'd try to use a knife, not a lot of control. Better off with a jig saw or even a vibratory saw.

 

[Arrowhead]

Took a few more pictures

 

[AZ Hella]

That turned out great! Nice work.

 

[bval001]

looks badass. how are you liking the set up? I've been wanting to do this for awhile but afraid to mess it up. do the AAL lights work as DRLs with the sport?

 

[Arrowhead]

looks badass. how are you liking the set up? I've been wanting to do this for awhile but afraid to mess it up. do the AAL lights work as DRLs with the sport?

Very happy with them. No they don't work as DRL as the sport doesn't have that feature anyway.

 

[bval001]

Very happy with them. No they don't work as DRL as the sport doesn't have that feature anyway.

what if you flash with a tazer ?

 

[Arrowhead]

what if you flash with a tazer ?

I have the Tazer Lite and that doesn't have the advanced light features.

They light up when the headlights are on though.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/umhwrtE5WTZ2kUP17

 

[bval001]

I have the Tazer Lite and that doesn't have the advanced light features.

They light up when the headlights are on though.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/umhwrtE5WTZ2kUP17

looks great. I'm definitely going to do this

 

[Az-jewel]

Thank you for posting this!! I’m about to try it!

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