Mounting Aux Lights on Steel Bumper

[niJL]

I have the mopar bull bar, with a @Baja Designs OnX6+ 10” light bar mounted to it with @KC HiLiTES bar clamp mounts.

The Flex Era singles are mounted with some of the factory bumper bolts, but it’s a pain with how the KC light bracket connects, you have to remove the light from the bracket and there are some sandwiched washers that aren’t easy to get back in place. I get why they use a carriage bolt, but the steel bumper is not conducive to tightening a bolt from underneath with some parts of the shell being multilayered.

The lights below the windshield are using the Baja Designs mount and it is great except I can’t flip the hood all the way back.

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[KC HiLiTES]

I have the mopar bull bar, with a @Baja Designs OnX6+ 10” light bar mounted to it with @KC HiLiTES bar clamp mounts.

The Flex Era singles are mounted with some of the factory bumper bolts, but it’s a pain with how the KC light bracket connects, you have to remove the light from the bracket and there are some sandwiched washers that aren’t easy to get back in place. I get why they use a carriage bolt, but the steel bumper is not conducive to tightening a bolt from underneath with some parts of the shell being multilayered.

The lights below the windshield are using the Baja Designs mount and it is great except I can’t flip the hood all the way back.

Nice looking Jeep! Those KC Singles look like the old Flex Singles, not the newer Flex Era 1s. I agree, the old ones could be a pain if you removed it from the bracket. It is much easier now with the new FE1 lights, it is a single bolt and washer. It also comes with 3 different lenses for Spot, Spread and Fog Beam. Here is a comparison.

Original Flex Single

New Flex Era 1

 

[niJL]

Nice looking Jeep! Those KC Singles look like the old Flex Singles, not the newer Flex Era 1s. I agree, the old ones could be a pain if you removed it from the bracket. It is much easier now with the new FE1 lights, it is a single bolt and washer. It also comes with 3 different lenses for Spot, Spread and Fog Beam. Here is a comparison.

Original Flex Single

New Flex Era 1

Thank you!

I was just looking at the redesigned Flex Era 1’s. Looks like a much better system, 4 bolts was probably a bit overkill for such a small light.

 

[TealOxAdv]

If you ordered the front factory trail cam and steel bumpers, choose an "outboard" location for the off road lights so that they do not block the view of the forward trail cam. I used existing bolts/holes to mount my Mopar lights.

That’s what we did on my brother’s 392 as well.

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