6 Xm-l light bar build

Very nice looking bkt. Whats the possibility of it moving around in an arc with the single cap screw either side of the light? Gotta love cable ties. :wink:

I am not picturing what you are trying to explain. Example?

In a way he might be asking if the mounting holes on the light are at the center of gravity. If it's not, then vibrations may eventually cause it to point up or down. At least that's what I wanted to know.

The holes are Very close to CG, but that is all relative to how you point the light.

It needs a third bolt in a slotted hole, to lock the adjustment down instead of relying solely on the two pivot bolts.

Oh, gotcha. I can’t do that on this light, plus I think it looks like crap. Other light bar manufacturers do that. I think it will be just fine on this light. My big light is like this and it does not move. I can always rough up the back side of the bracket for more bite.

I wouldn’t have thought it a big problem, I’ve never had tilt adjustable lights move unless I happened to land on them and then their angle was the least of my worries :slight_smile:

Great piece of machining, they look awesome!

Nice light, I have seen rock crawlers in the past on TV but nobody around here has had one until recently. In the past 3 months I met a man that had one, a new coworker has one, and a recently past coworker’s long time boyfriend builds them full time for a living. These things must be exploding in popularity. And the cost of a good one is super expensive, like 6 figures. With people putting that kind of money in them, $190 is pocket change.

Nice looking bracket.

I’m wondering something about the light housing and the bar housing. Why did you choose to make the fins go around the light, both this one and the bar, across the flow of air instead of with the flow of air? Seems if the fins ran longitudinally they would be more efficient at dispersing heat.

Think he made these on a lathe, no way to cut fins the other way.

The MG-T2 light is build on a lathe, no way to make the fins the other way on a lathe.

For manufacturing reasons. They cool just fine.

Don’t think the bar was lathe made, had to use a mill for those. Which would also do the lengthwise groove for air to flow down instead of over. Just wondering is all.

Edit: No offense, but easier instead of better.

The bar was done on my mill. Same thing. It is much easier to machine them that way.

1/4” of freezing rain! Lights are on my rockcrawler.

24 emitters driven at 3A each… very well done! :bigsmile: It looks like you have quite an impressive crawler to play with. Do you have a link to a spec sheet?

You missed the six in front.

Build thread.

Boost buggy build

WOW! That looks like a tank powered by a turbo LS1. You have amazing fab talents… and perseverance. How does it run? After playing with LSx engines over the past decade, they seem to do a lot of things really well. Is there a good chassis dyno shop in your area that specializes in LSx tune? Im due for a retune after several mods on my vette, but there’s no one in my area up to the task of getting the most out of it.

Even your jack stands are amazing.