CREEPSHOW

I wanted to post some pictures of my light install and wanted to ask a question about front tow hooks..
First, My light install included some mini's in the grill and 4-55w driving lights on the roof rack.. I trimmed out the grill so that the minis would fit in two holes and wired them up to the factory fog light wires. My factory lights , one was missing and the other broken. I also wanted to add 4 lights on the roof rack but wanted to not go wild with giant KC's so I went with 3.5" super brights.. They noticable but not giant.. The picture don't really do it justice so this weekend I may take some better pics and also show my switch I neatly mounted in the overhead console!
Tow hook question is.. I was thinking it would be cool to have a tow hook on either side maybe stick out where the old fog lights were.. Does anyone know how this could be done, ideas? Where is or how have some of you mounted a place to hook on the front of your ZJ.. Also, could this in any way set off the airbag pulling on the fron bumper????
Here are the light pics.. The lights actually look smaller in the photo.. I'll add some this weekend like I said..

sportrider

looks good, how did you pull the wires to feed the roof lights? can you post a picture. I still haven't decided if I'm going to go with a light bar on the roof or mount some on the front bumper.

rickybarth

kevins off road has a good strong radiator support that has shackles on it

Copperback243

As Ricky said, KOR has a pretty decent radiator support/shackle setup. They're only 1/2" shackles; but it's a pretty clean, tough product. Only kicker is it wont really suite your stock fog light location situation. And whenever I instauled mine; there was a little modification needed: My radiator studs wouldn't go into the mounting holes on the support- but no biggie.

Cheaper alternative would be what this fellow did; but it's not nearly as strong:

http://www.eriejeeppeople.com/ejpfor...showtopic=1264

I've been yanked out pretty aggressively with no airbag issues. Would't say it's impossible; but the sensors are more for frontal impacts..

CREEPSHOW

ill get some pictures..

CREEPSHOW

Thanks for the ideas on the hooks guys Ill let ya know what I decide to do there..
Ok I had some free time so I made up some pics and diagrams for the lights and wiring. It was just about to rain so I didnt clean up the ZJ
I wired all the lights together.. White was main wire from switch to lights and red was main power to switch from battery and black ground. Lights had a ground and since its a lighted switch , so did the switch. I mounted the switch in the overhead console and just grounded the switch to a screw thatwent into the body under the overhead console so that ground is taken care of. I also took the rocker switch out of the housing it came with and dremeled out a place to mount it in the garage door opener door in the console as shown.


As I said each light came with a white main wire and a ground so I mounted and soldered all the 4 lights together ending up with 1 ground which I mounted to the roof rack bolt close to the light rack (remember to silicone them so you dont have a leak!!) I also could have removed one roof rack bolt and ran my main wire threw into the cab but I was woried about leakage and not knowing if I was gonna keep the lights on decided to run a different route.
2 grounds taken care of leaves me with a main power wire from battery and a main wire from lights to switch.. I added arrows for both to show the route. I ran the main light wire from the lights along the back side of the roof rack and across the roof into the door jam rubber leaving only a maybe 3-4" of wire showing.. White wire on the red Jeep stood out bad so I put red duct tape on it and its barely noticable..


and then on down the rubber as shown


I didnt wanna take a chance of pinching the wires.. The power wire from the battery was zip ties along the cowl and was fed threw the fender ito the door jam where it met up with the main light wire as it turned and looped around the rubber and came back up the piller on the bottom side of the door jam rubber .. into the piller cover that just pops off and across under the head liner into the overhead console area.. The wires are then hooked up to the proper spots on the switch and everything is buttoned up..


And you have lights!!


If I could do it over I would have probably ran the wire threw the roof rack bolt area and siliconed the crap out of it and still may but I posted this so that maybe it would help someone out and its a decent way to run your wires without pinching wires or having a leaky door jam.. I also wanna add I wired in a fuseable link at the switch and stuffed it in the console door so if anything does get pinched it will pop the fuse, you have easy access to it, and you dont burn down your ride.. Hope this helps!

Copperback243

Looks like a pretty clean setup you have there. Nice diagram too.

---I do recognize the lights you have up top. They're bright; however be prepaired for all of the lenses to crack on you. I've been through a couple sets of them. The last set has been cracked for six months and they still work fine though lol