Flip up Off Road Lights...

[GTABurnout]

I would like to have some sort of roof mounted lights for when I am off road and get cought in to the dark. But most the time IO would rather not have anything up there causing wind drag. I was considering some thing that can be fliped up simulare to the video below but maunal. I may have to design it all but if some one else has done this befor I would like to see it.

PS this is for a Cherokee.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vqZaksvU_c&feature=player_embedded

[winkosmosis]

Why not mount them to the roof and reach up there to flip them up when you need them? Or you could turn them sideways so they're more aerodynamic.

Or you can just mount your lights to the bumper, or to the mirrors like those police spotlights

[Big Daddy Chia]

I would like to have some sort of roof mounted lights for when I am off road and get cought in to the dark. But most the time IO would rather not have anything up there causing wind drag. I was considering some thing that can be fliped up simulare to the video below but maunal. I may have to design it all but if some one else has done this befor I would like to see it.

PS this is for a Cherokee.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vqZaksvU_c&feature=player_embedded

I have thought of doingh the same thign on my cherokee.

[Zorro]

LOL

All that time and all that extra farkling to put some lights up.

[C Red]

I think this is the best flip up light system I have seen. There are several versions and it can mount to many different vehicles. In addition the lights can be controlled with a joystick or hands free just like directional headlights.
Great video too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhPEwt1xVT0

[bobDog]

I would like to have some sort of roof mounted lights for when I am off road and get cought in to the dark. But most the time IO would rather not have anything up there causing wind drag. I was considering some thing that can be fliped up simulare to the video below but maunal. I may have to design it all but if some one else has done this befor I would like to see it.

PS this is for a Cherokee.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vqZaksvU_c&feature=player_embedded

Okay I didn't even search for this but in the mid Baja 1000 days one of the famous racers who ran broncos and always won had a great system for lights that had a ratacthing interior handle in his roof that either put up his light bar or folded it down.....if you guys don't find it I'll try to when I have time....must of been early 80's maybe....the lights had indents in the roof to nest in.:coffee:

[Backwoods Rambler]

I think this is the best flip up light system I have seen. There are several versions and it can mount to many different vehicles. In addition the lights can be controlled with a joystick or hands free just like directional headlights.
Great video too...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhPEwt1xVT0

That was cool.

[ExpoMike]

That video was very cool.

I have been looking to do a folding light mount design into my roof rack design since day one. I haven't come up with exactly what I want to do yet, hence why I haven't built it yet. I have some very cool ideas for my rack, that I have not seen anyone do yet. Once I get the light mount figured out, then I can move forward.

Anyone have any idea what ram/actuator they are using that is weatherproof?

[winkosmosis]

Instead of jumping through all these mechanical hoops, why not just have the lamps on a round crossbar, which you can reach out the window and turn with a knob or lever?

[Geronimo]

Okay I didn't even search for this but in the mid Baja 1000 days one of the famous racers who ran broncos and always won had a great system for lights that had a ratacthing interior handle in his roof that either put up his light bar or folded it down.....if you guys don't find it I'll try to when I have time....must of been early 80's maybe....the lights had indents in the roof to nest in.:coffee:

That was a Bill Strope set up, found on PJ's Big Oly Broncos and Manny Esquerra's Rangers. Someone made a fiberglass insert at some point but I haven't seen one in years. The electric actuated ones are very nice for adjusting lights at speed, and has become standard on high end race cars. Morphic and Baja Concepts(Soltek) make kits.

[GTABurnout]

I want mine to be a manual set up no need to install hydrolic rams or stuff. I like the baja look but I don't need it to look like that all the time.

[frumpy]

http://www.quadratec.com/products/72112_10X_PG.htm

[Exrunner]

^doesnt rotate.

[frumpy]

My bad, guess its only their wrangler ones that rotate.

edit: actually your bad ;)

http://carr.com/store/carrdeluxerota.asp

[winkosmosis]

My bad, guess its only their wrangler ones that rotate.

edit: actually your bad ;)

http://carr.com/store/carrdeluxerota.asp

The rectangular crossbar would create a lot of drag though. I would want to round it off with foam pipe insulation or something... get to a tear drop or cigar shape

[ntsqd]

Okay I didn't even search for this but in the mid Baja 1000 days one of the famous racers who ran broncos and always won had a great system for lights that had a ratacthing interior handle in his roof that either put up his light bar or folded it down.....if you guys don't find it I'll try to when I have time....must of been early 80's maybe....the lights had indents in the roof to nest in.:coffee:
That was a Bill Strope set up, found on PJ's Big Oly Broncos and Manny Esquerra's Rangers. Someone made a fiberglass insert at some point but I haven't seen one in years. The electric actuated ones are very nice for adjusting lights at speed, and has become standard on high end race cars. Morphic and Baja Concepts(Soltek) make kits.
It goes back a little further than that. At least one of the std Stroppe EB racers was fitted with such a system prior to Big Oly getting it. A friend in AZ is 1/2 owner of that EB and it is slowly being returned to it's vintage race fitment and condition.
It is not a ratchet on that truck, it is a semi-circular guide and the handle screws down to pinch the guide and lock the setting in place. The whole system would not work well on a vehicle whose roof is highly valued.......

On a friend's race truck I copied the design of my then crew chief for LocosMocos.com and used a fixed stop combined with 2 gas springs. That way any branches that might hurt the lights would instead deflect the whole light bar, and the once clear the gas springs will return the lights to their full, upright position. I used a De-Sta-co clamp to hold the lights in the retracted position. Popping the clamp loose allows the gas springs to erect the light bar.

[Exrunner]

edit: actually your bad ;)



I dont think those two links were to the same product. The first one you posted does not look like the second. The Quadratec website one in the picture does NOT rotate.

[frumpy]

They are both the XM3, regardless, carr does make one.

[corrupt]

Allot of sand rails run the hand operated ones

[muddyluxury]

if i was to do something like this, i would use a rod cross bar with a bolt welded in the end to allow fine adjustment, then use a tooth gear with a spring loaded pin to hold it in any postion. thats how i would do it

[Geronimo]

It goes back a little further than that. At least one of the std Stroppe EB racers was fitted with such a system prior to Big Oly getting it.

I stand corrected. Its been many years since I laid eyes on on of those EB's. I have recently seen Big Oly.