2024 Badlands 2 Door Build

[jclark]

TMX repurposed the mounting brackets that came with the Baja Designs Fog Pocket Lights Kit that I had for my OEM steel modular front bumper, I think they just had to drill a few holes to mount the mounting brackets to the ADD Rock Fighter bumper, nothing had to be fabricated (I think) other then the few holes they drilled to mount the lights in the wing pockets.
So, if you don't have the Baja Designs fog pocket light kit for the OEM steel modular bumper to repurpose the light mounting brackets, some brackets will have to be fabricated to mount the lights in the wing pockets of the ADD bumper.

The OnX6 is wired to the #2 upfitter switch in the high power position only.

I had Heretic in the pockets on my OEM modular Badlands bumper, and the brackets are very different than what comes with the Baja fog kit, not to mention I'm hoping to sell them as a kit since I don't plan to re-use them.

Looking at your pics in your earlier posts, I see where they used the "L" silver mounting tabs from the Baja kit - but unsure of what they used for the black brackeh that is parrallel to the back of the bumper. If you feel like sharing a few pics of what that looks like from the back of teh bumper that would be appreciated. I think I'm going to need to come up with a bracket solution.

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[GTS BRONCO]

I had Heretic in the pockets on my OEM modular Badlands bumper, and the brackets are very different than what comes with the Baja fog kit, not to mention I'm hoping to sell them as a kit since I don't plan to re-use them.

Looking at your pics in your earlier posts, I see where they used the "L" silver mounting tabs from the Baja kit - but unsure of what they used for the black brackeh that is parrallel to the back of the bumper. If you feel like sharing a few pics of what that looks like from the back of teh bumper that would be appreciated. I think I'm going to need to come up with a bracket solution.

Can't really see anything from the back.
But I think you'll be able to see well enough how TMX mounted the lights with the picture I have here.
I never really looked close up how TMX did it, but looking at it now, it does look like they did indeed fab up a bracket to mount the lights.
TMX fabricated a slender piece of metal and bent the ends so it could mount to the ADD bumper securing it with the bolts that were originally used to mount the blank plate that covered the wing pockets of the ADD bumper.
Then they mounted the L-brackets repurposed from the Baja Designs OEM modular steel bumper fog pocket kit to the fabricated slender bracket, and then mounted the Baja Designs lights mounting brackets to the L-brackets.

 

[GTS BRONCO]

Latest "enhancement"...
Had the hood fully wrapped with Matte Black PPF and then added a new Ford Performance / G.O.A.T. hood cowl decal, then added a AVS Areoskin Hood Protector in Matte Black of course...

 

[GTS BRONCO]

A couple of tweaks for the front camera and the OnX6 front bumper light bar.

1. Swapped out the 20" OnX6 light bar for a 10" OnX6 light bar to get more air flowing into the Whipple intercooler.
The 20" light bar was blocking a lot of air into the intercooler, thus causing the motor to run a tad warm at hwy speeds.
Installing the 10" light bar opened up more area for air to flow into the intercooler bringing my engine temp back to normal operating temp at hwy speeds.
Problem solved!

2. Had Jason @ Texas Motor Worx 3D print another front camera mount housing that mounts on top of the Warn winch controller box housing instead of on the front of the winch controller box housing.
This way the front camera is within 1/4" of the centerline where the OEM camera originally mounted
and is within 1 1/4" of the height of the OEM camera original mounting position.
The first camera housing mount that was 3D printed had to be angled up some because the winch bumper center hoop would block most of the viewing screen and made the projected tire tracks point up towards the sky.(very annoying)

Having the new camera mount on top of the winch controller box allowed the viewing angle to be pointed down more which lowered the projected tire track image to a more acceptable viewing position, it's not 100% perfect but it's not far from it and it's much better then it was with the old 3D printed housing setup.

So I'm all set for Moab 2.0
Leave in 8 days, staying for 6 days

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