How y'all doing? This is George. This is a little tech tip on you. I just want to show you how
we're mounting a Whelen Mini Bar to a Back Rack. Get asked this question quite a bit
and we sell this Whelen Mini Bar that you see up there in 16 and 23 inch versions.
So let me run up there and I'll show you how we're mounting it to the Back Rack and what I did.
Alright, so first thing let's talk about is what they give you in the package. You've got these feet.
You've got some hardware and some rubber isolators and these feet lock into the bottom of the light
bar and they stick out wider than the light bar. You can see here kind of what I mean. They're
bigger than the light bar and fairly ugly and they don't work really to mount on a Back Rack. I guess
you could drill and tap and have them hang out like that but that's pretty fugly so we didn't
want to do that. So we got rid of the feet and we did steal some of the hardware, the hardware
that they provide, nice 1/4-20 bolts. These are 1/4-20 thread. So we took the rubber isolators
and two of the bolts. We took off the dome of the light bar by loosening up the Phillips screws here
and you can slide these locks here. They slide to remove. They do not just pry off, they slide.
So you'll see on the light bar here, you remove it right here. You see how it's recessed and then it
slides and locks. So you remove all that, you get the dome off the bar, right. Okay, so then inside the
bar, what we did is we drilled a hole right there. You can see that right there. We drill a hole there.
We drilled a hole over here, same spot right there. Okay and then underneath the bar is where we put-
we double stacked those rubber isolators. We put them right there underneath the bar. Now in the
Back Rack itself, we drilled a hole. We did a Rivnut tool 1/4-20 Rivnut and if you don't have a
Rivnut, go buy one because they're cheap. The Rivnut tools are very cheap, 1/4-20 threaded inserts
are very cheap. So we put one of those on each side of the Back Rack. Put a little bit of Loctite,
blue Loctite, just a little bit on that bolt and we snugged it up real good and that rubber
gasket there fills in the gap here because the bottom is recessed. It raises the light bar just
a little bit. Gives it a nice rubberized mount. So very shock resistant. Hopefully it'll work out
real well and this is how we've done many light bars on Back Racks and when it's all said and
done and the dome's back on, it looks very clean and very nice and if you needed, for some reason,
to move the bar forward or aft, as in you put a lot of stuff up against the Back Rack, you could
cheat a little bit and get that screw a little further. I would not bolt it on the edge here.
You could at your own risk. If you want to put some bolts right through here, I would maybe
do three and then you could probably hang it but that's going outside my comfort zone. So I
don't know that I would do that but I centered this one up so it should look real nice. Real nice.
That's what it looks like with the dome back on it. Doesn't stick up any higher than the Back Rack
really, maybe a quarter of an inch and it just looks clean. I just like how clean and nice that
looks. Over here on the edge, you can see with the way that those modules in the light bar are on 45
degrees, I really am not too concerned with the tiny little bit of light bar that that blocks.
You're gonna get plenty of view all the way around and I know the next thing you're going
to tell me is "Hey turn it on dummy. Turn it on." So let me turn it on. Alrighty, so there it is on.
I'll back up in a second. I just wanted to show you we also put in some of our Diode Dynamics
SS3s here from our friends at Diode Dynamics. We're starting to use a lot more of their stuff
too as far as the work lighting. We did a Rivnut into the hole of the side of the Back Rack
there just the same. Kept all our wiring nice. Ran it all down behind there but those are our
Diode Dynamics SS3 pods right there and as well as some hideaways inside that third brake light.
So there you have it. That's what it's going to look like with it on. I hope you found this a
little helpful, a little bit informative. I hope you like how it looks. I know. I know. Turn on the Diode.
Come on. Well I turned them on. There you go. So they're on. So that's how everything looks.
Make sure if you want to see the full build of this video, check it out. This is just a tech tip
on how to mount that Whelen light bar on a Back Rack because we get asked that question
quite a bit. So thanks again for watching Wicked Warnings. I'm in no means or way saying that this
is the perfect only way to do this. This is just the way I did it. Works for us. I like it.
So if you like it, feel free to do the same but if you don't like it, feel free not
to. Thanks again for watching Wicked Warnings. We're your number one source for construction
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