Hey, it's George. We're doing a little bit of highlight here. I just want to show you,
we're mid-point here, so this will be seamed into the product video, but here's
the Super Duty grille with our LED light bar kit installed. I just wanted to show
you on the back what's involved with mounting this because it's just a little
tricky. So I want you all have a good idea of what you're getting into if you
order this twin light bar kit for your 2017 and up Super Duties. This is what
it's gonna look like in the front. We offer this kit in the black or chrome
finish. I prefer the black cause it just seems like it kind of disappears there
in the grille. Let me show you the back. Enough of my rambling. So basically
around the back of the grille here, you can see how these mount. You're gonna
need to drill a hole and put a nut or a bolt in and over here, in the Ford Oval,
you do need to make just a slight cut. See right here where I made that slight
cut? So the bolt head can protrude through because it's kind of a snug fit
right in there. So we make that cut, that also allows you the ability to tighten
that bolt. So you make that small grind right there on the factory grille. There,
now we're in focus, and that allows for this bracket so you can tighten that
bolt. And that's pretty much it. The kit is gonna come with weather pack
connection, or actually Deutsch connections, it's got a full harness so
it'll work with your auxiliary switches or without, comes with a switch, a relay,
everything you need so you can set it up with any truck. So this is the backside
view and I'm gonna show you the view here when it's back installed on this
vehicle right here and stay tuned. Thanks. Hey, and thanks for watching. This is
George at Wicked Warnings here with a 2017 or newer Super Duty, installing the Rough
Country 8-inch LED Light Kit in a non-lariat grille. This light kit's spec'd for a
lariat grille only but as you can see we were able to modify it and
get it installed into this grille here. It is a little trickier, I'm not gonna lie.
This was kind of a pain in the butt, but let me show you what we had to do here.
Step one, there's a couple ten millimeter bolts behind this blue oval. Let's get
rid of this right away.
Put it over there somewhere. Now you can see, there's a couple of
screws right here that we've installed. Here and here. Let me flip this over and
show you what we did. Here you can see the bracket. That's one of the Rough
Country brackets supplied. That is the bracket in the actual kit. They send
you two brackets for the kit and then two brackets that come with the light
bar from China. This is the bracket that Rough Country provides in the kit.
We use that on the outer edges only, just as the kit specifies. This grille is about
an inch narrower, here to here, than the
lariat grille. That's why these don't fit right. If you bought a kit for a
non-lariat grille and you're scratching your head wondering, what the hell? Why doesn't
it fit? It's because Ford decided to shrink this opening here a little bit in
the non-lariat grilles and it kind of jacked up what Rough Country had going
on here for the lights. So let me flip the grille over. I'll show you how we
mounted them in the back here. The outside edge, you're able to use the
bracket kind of like Rough Country suggests, but you're not able because of
this stuff here to get the nut and bolt. So we used a nice thick coarse screw,
pre-drilled, and we were able to get that bracket snug and secure right in there.
We actually put the bracket about flush with the chrome and that makes the light
bar fit just right and we put it all the way as possible to the edge
there as you can get it. See? We're all the way up to the edge of the chrome
right there. Now here's where it gets interesting. On the other side, you have
to take a little bit of this plastic away in here to relieve and make room for
the outside of the light bar right down in there and you also have to clip away
some of this chrome. From the factory, there's kind of a chrome angle piece
right here and it blocks the top of the light bar. So you can see how we kind of
trimmed that all the way. I use a hot knife and just melt it away but you
could use a grinder or anything like that and just clean up the edges. And
this is actually the Chinese bracket that comes with the light bar and what
we were able to do, was flip that bracket on its side, and use the supplied Rough
Country nut and bolt with the smaller side with allen head
underneath the grille, coming up from the bottom, and here's where the actual nut
went like that. Now you can see the cut that we had to make to make room for
that mounting screw right here, to go through this plastic, and then this
comes straight down. You pre-drill a hole down in there and that is what is bolted
on right here. This is the Rough Country supplied hardware. We're doing a little
combination of the Rough Country hardware and the Chinese hardware. We put
our wires towards the middle. Just seemed to work the best here for the light bar
to fit that way and what you will find, is when you mount them, they're angled
down a little bit right away when you put them in. So we kind of had to force
them up a little and then tighten these two screws on the ends to keep them
level. They weren't angled really far down but it was just a little bit so we
wanted to force them up a little bit, get them down the road a little bit farther.
We were able to get a nice, secure, solid mount on these and because Ford
has kind of a recess behind this grille, this little badge insert, and these
screws are not totally flush, but they don't stick up very much at all as you
can see, the badge will go back in and lay flat. You don't see the screws behind
the badge. So then you just reattach that badge and then what you have is the
Rough Country 8-inch Grille Kit in a non-lariat Super Duty grille. We offer this
kit for sale on our website. Hopefully you're looking at this video on our
website and you could just scroll up and put Add to Cart. I have a video that
explains how to mount this in a lariat grille. Now I have a video explaining how
to mount it in a non-lariat grille. I guess all I need now is the black XL
grille but I'm pretty sure it's almost identical to this one. So thanks again
for watching and always remember, here at Wicked Warnings, just because some say
you can't, doesn't mean we can't. Getting it done, keeping it custom, and take a
look in our 2017 video gallery to see what we did to the whole front of this
truck right here and you'll recognize it because of the CAT plate. Once we're done
here today, we've got some real good stuff on this truck, including the
all-new white roof light that is amber in parking and white in emergency strobe
mode. I hope you enjoyed this video. I hope it gives you a little bit of help
putting these lights in your truck. Thanks again for watching Wicked
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Just showing you the final front end here with them lights installed in the
grille. This is what they look like on the Super Duty installed. Give us a call if you've
got any questions. This is an awesome light kit, goes in really easy and that's
your final product there. Looks very sharp. I'll back out a little bit
here. Thanks again for watching.