strider3700
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My 96/97 F350's stock lighting is dangerously bad at night on unlit roads. My wife was at the point of not wanting to take the truck anywhere if it was going to be dark. After looking into way's to improve the headlights it became obvious that there just wasn't much I could do that would make a real difference (staying road legal) so I decided to splurge and bought a set of Hella 500FF driving lights and a set of Hella 500ff fog lights. This kind of destroyed my non existent mod budget so they'll be my christmas present as well.
The truck has the stock chrome bumper and at this point I'm thinking I'll just drill some holes in it and mount directly to it. In the past I've seen mention that mounting to stock bumpers is not a good solution but I get the feeling that had more to do with mounting to the plastic bumpers so common these days. My bumper already has holes in it from the previous owners mounting of the spare on the front. I don't do any high speed off roading 90% paved 10% gravel logging roads. I had thought about adding some sort of light bar mounted directly to the frame but it will be a fair amount of work to construct and I don't view my bumper as being overly weak as is.
Am I going to have issues with mounting like this?
The truck has the stock chrome bumper and at this point I'm thinking I'll just drill some holes in it and mount directly to it. In the past I've seen mention that mounting to stock bumpers is not a good solution but I get the feeling that had more to do with mounting to the plastic bumpers so common these days. My bumper already has holes in it from the previous owners mounting of the spare on the front. I don't do any high speed off roading 90% paved 10% gravel logging roads. I had thought about adding some sort of light bar mounted directly to the frame but it will be a fair amount of work to construct and I don't view my bumper as being overly weak as is.
Am I going to have issues with mounting like this?
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