- [Donny Smith] Hey Donny Smith here.
And in this video we're gonna show you the steps we took
to hook up this light bar on this 2004 GMC Sierra.
Jordan decided he wanted a light bar for his pickup.
He just got this pickup.
So we contacted our friends at Auxbeam
and they sent us a light bar for this pickup.
So we're gonna show you the steps we took to install it.
First thing we did is just set it up there.
We kind of put the brackets on and set it up there
just to kind of see how it was gonna all align up.
And then I kind of determined where we want it to sit,
where we want the brackets to sit.
And by the way you will need to get brackets
for your specific pickup.
This is for the GMC Sierra.
I'll put a link down in the description for that
in the light bar.
But it does take specific brackets for it to fit right
on your make and model.
But anyway, we're getting it lined up.
Where we want it to sit.
And we looked at the location.
And now I'm putting the brackets right where they were at.
I had some reference points that I'm going off of.
And now I'm gonna mark the holes that the bracket,
you know where it screws into the pickup right there.
So I'm just marking them with a pencil.
And once I have those marked,
I'm gonna drill those out.
We're gonna put some sheet metal screws in it.
Some good sized sheet metal screws.
So we're drilling the holes
and then we will screw the screws,
you know the screws through the bracket
into the pickup right there.
And you can see where the three holes are located.
And we're doing the same on the other side.
And now we got the bracket and we're putting it,
installing it now.
Notice it's loose.
I don't want to tighten the bracket at this point.
I want to leave everything kind of loose
until we get the light bar on and see how it's all
gonna line up in our final aligning.
So I'm just putting the screws in and leave them
a little bit loose.
I do this side then I'm gonna do the same thing
on the other side.
Okay, now we have both the brackets on.
And like I said they're loose.
And now we're gonna set it up there.
And the brackets real loose,
and I think Jay gets confused because the bracket's
down too low.
But I tell him that you know after we get the light bar on
we can adjust everything and tighten it up.
I was telling him it's gonna sit about right there.
So anyway, we went ahead and put the light bar on.
And then we bolted the light bar to the brackets.
There's a bolt that goes through each side.
So we screwed those in.
And again we didn't tighten that all the way yet either.
We're gonna leave everything loose,
get it aligned, and then tighten everything.
Now, this is Jordan's pickup.
I don't know if you've watched my videos for a long time
but these are my twin boys.
And they're grown up now.
I don't know if you remember like on the Mustang project,
you know they was little bitty guys.
And they've helped me out with a view videos along the way.
They didn't go into this career,
they're both in construction now.
They do sheet rocking, framing, things like that.
But yeah, they're all grown up now.
Like I said, if you've been watching my videos
for a while, man they were just little bitty guys
when they started out.
So, time flies.
It goes by fast.
So anyway, we're getting these bolts into the side here.
Just getting them started.
Jordan's all ready got his in,
Jacob's working on his.
And once we get them started we can kind of get
the light bar aligned where it should be
and tighten everything up.
Getting the drill ready to tighten em up there.
And you notice Jacob's
getting that thing aligned just right,
that's one thing you don't want to do.
If that's not perfectly aligned don't force a bolt
into the threads.
Because you're gonna cross thread it
and then you got a mess.
That's something that you don't want to do.
So make sure everything is going in correctly
before you start tightening it up.
So now we got everything hand tight.
Got it aligned where we want it.
And now we're just gonna start tightening everything up.
First we're gonna tighten the brackets up on both sides.
And then we're gonna come back and tighten the bracket
to the light bar up.
There might be some final adjusting we have to do
on the light bar.
But we'll do that, you know, later after we can aim it
and see how it sits and everything.
We got all that tightened up.
And now I am pulling that inside weather strip off.
And we can start running these wires.
So I'm gonna get that main wire that goes
to the light bar and I'm gonna run it down this A pillar.
And I'm gonna go ahead and pull this trim off
in case we decide we need to go inside of there
you know to run some of the wiring.
And I'm just gonna run that down.
And then we're gonna run this wiring right there
through the fender right there.
And you can see where I am running the harness through.
And I'm just running it straight through the fender.
And if you look through there you can see where
that goes in through the door opening.
And you can pull it through right there.
And once we have that through,
we can plug the light bar in.
This is the main harness that goes, you know,
to the light bar.
And then we'll still have to run the switch
here in a little bit.
We're getting that plugged in.
And this is where I'm gonna put the wire.
Just kind of run it right underneath that
weather stripping right there.
Now I can put that back in.
Get that pushed on.
And all these weather strippings
they just pull of and push on.
Easy to remove and install.
There's no clips on these.
So it just, it has kind of a channel that fits around
that pinch weld and you know keeps it tight on there.
And now I'm putting the outside weather strip back on.
Now where that bracket's at,
it's gonna be a little bit more difficult
because it's right there.
So you'll have to, you know, hit it down a little bit
for it to seat properly.
So that might take just a little bit more work.
Once you get around the bracket you just follow it
down that A pillar,
you know to get the seal on.
So I'm getting that on.
And then we can continue.
Okay, now here's the wiring harness.
And these are the relays.
Now this is the negative and the positive.
The negative I'm gonna hook up to the battery right there,
and the negative, or the positive.
And the negative I'm gonna hook up to a ground.
You notice that bolt right there.
And I also have these relays that I'm gonna have to hook
up to the fender.
I'm gonna have to remove this battery in order to do that.
And as you can see I can just fit it behind all that
and screw it into the fender well there.
So we'll do that in a little bit.
Okay, now we have the switch wires
that we've got to run through.
And this is your negative and positive that go in
and connect to the positive and negative
inside the pickup.
And I'm running those through.
I'm kind of getting them out of the hinge way.
So that's why I'm running them back behind that.
And now we're gonna run em back through that same spot
we were in, those other ones.
So these wires are kind of flimsy.
So we're gonna use this wire to help push those through.
Help fish them through.
So I'm gonna tape that together.
And then once it's taped together I'll push it through.
And then you can easily pull the wires
and everything through.
It makes it pretty easy, you know,
using something like that.
This is just a welding rod Oxy-Acetylene welding rod.
If you didn't have that maybe a coat hanger
or anything like that would probably work.
So now he's plugging the harness in.
He's gonna get that plugged in
and then we'll wire it inside and have that ready to go.
So here's the fusebox right here.
And the first thing I'm gonna do is hook up a test light.
So I'll put that on the ground.
And what I want to do,
Jordan wants this to be able to turn on and off
without the ignition on.
So he wants something that powers up with the ignition off.
So I'll pull that fuse off the one that powers,
you know, stays on all the time.
And put this adapter in.
I'll put a link down.
This is an adapter that gives you a wire
that you can tie into.
And you put the fuse in this adapter then you can plug
that whole thing into where the fuse was.
And what this does,
and then it has the wire that comes out
and you can connect another wire to it.
So I'm gonna connect that.
I'm gonna crimp it down.
Right there.
We'll get that crimped down.
We'll make sure it's in there good.
All right, now I've got the positive
and now I can attach the negative.
And that bolt right there,
you can see it right there.
I'm gonna loosen that up.
And then I'm gonna put the negative wire,
attach it right there,
and then tighten that back up.
So I've got the negative,
I'm just gonna slip it behind there.
Now I'll tighten it back up.
Now I've got those connected,
I am just gonna get a zip tie.
I'm gonna fold these wires up and zip tie em,
just to make em nice and neat.
And then once it's zip tied I can push it back
in the fuse box area,
and then put the fuse cover back on.
So I got that tight.
And I'm gonna cut the end of that zip tie off.
Just to keep it out of the way.
And now I can tuck that in there
and put the cover back on.
And it just pops in.
You can just pull it out, you know, it pops on and off.
It's very easy to take this fuse cover off.
Okay, now I've got some alcohol
and I'm just wiping this down.
Cause this is where we're gonna put the switch.
He wanted it on his A pillar right here.
So I'm just running that
right under the molding right there.
And this is double sided tape, the way this works.
And I'm gonna peel that backing off.
And the reason we put the alcohol
is so that it sticks well.
It's not pulling off or, you know, comes off or anything.
That just cleans it real good
to where that will stick real well.
I was asking him, you know making sure this is where
he wanted it.
And it is.
So we push it on real good.
You want to push firmly.
And now we've got his switch on.
Okay, this light bar also came with some covers,
four different covers.
And what I'm thinking they are is they kind of help,
you know this is a spot light,
and I think this just kind of makes a flood light
out of it.
Kind of disperses the light a little bit on the ends.
So we're putting those one.
Two go on each side.
And I may be wrong with the purpose of these,
but that's what I'm thinking they are.
But they just clip on to the ends there.
You just put one end, set it in, and then push the top in,
and then it clips into place.
Real easy to put these on.
Once we got these on,
basically have the light bar installed.
Still gotta do some zip tying under the hood.
But we're gonna see what it looks like.
And it is really bright.
It's really hard to tell.
This camera tries to auto focus and adjust for all that.
But man, it is a really bright light.
It's gonna be able to see well.
And now we're also gonna get it outside
and then we might have to adjust that bar up or down
a little bit.
You know to get it aimed just right.
And it also has a dim and a bright.
You know I don't know what the dim's for.
You know it has two different buttons for each setting.
Anyway, pretty cool.
Now we're just going under the hood,
we're gonna do some zip tie
and make sure everything is good and tight.
Putting everything back together and we will be done.
But anyway I really do appreciate you
for watching this video.
And if you have any questions be sure and leave a comment.
I will put some of the information about the light bar
in the brackets in the description below.
And thanks for watching
and we will talk to you in the next video.