Fog Light Mounting Plates

[VRaptor SpeedWorks, LLC]

If you have the newer style fog lights for your GTM kit, you may have noticed that you can not use them and mount them per the GTM assembly manual. If you have the older style that has a one-bolt-install in the center rear of the light, these are not for you. If you're lights/brackets look like the ones in the pics below, take notice. There are multiple problems with the way FFR has instructed to mount these. Probably the biggest problem is that.....well, it's virtually impossible, as the center of the mounting bracket will be located right over the head of the bolt that holds the hood to the hinge plate. The other problem is that the bolts to hold the bracket will end up either half-on-half-off, or right on the hood hinge plate, which means that the you will most likely end up with at least one of the bolts where the threads are so close or half-into the hood hinge plate, that when you attempt to install the bolt, the head will hit the hinge plate on one side and there will be no way to tighten the bolt effectively as it will just be catching the edge of the head on the hinge plate. With all of that said, here is how I've wasted my afternoon today:



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This bracket is designed to be a direct replacement for the stamped steel bracket that comes with the fog lights. The plate is tapped and the 1/4-20 bolts are red-lock-tite'd in place so that you can push the threads thru the hood and install your nuts from the back side without the bolts loosening.

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[VRaptor SpeedWorks, LLC]

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As you can see in these pics, the small 1/8" holes is where I drilled thru....these would have been the locations for the bolts using the bracket that comes with the fog lights. As you can see, the bracket would be directly over the top bolt that holds the hood to the hinge plate (hood is upside-down in the pics.....top of hood is facing down). As you can also see from the back side, one of the holes would have ended up going thru the hinge plate.....which would have nearly cut the hinge plate in half and weakened it severely. The other hole is so close to the hinge plate that the head of the bolt would have caught the edge of the plate and you would not be able to tighten it. The location of the new bolts is well away from the hinge plate and the cut-outs in the new bracket will now clear the hood mounting bolts.

Warning! When you remove the bolts that hold the bracket to the fog light, the nuts inside the fog-lights are held in by nothing but gravity! During and once the bolts are removed, KEEP THE LENS FACING UP!....AND DO NOT SHAKE THE LIGHT! If you turn the light lens down, the nuts will fall out of their channels and rattle around inside the light, and getting them back into their channels is less than entertaining. ;-)

These brackets will come bent and assembled with the 1/4" bolts loc-tite'd in, and also come with one template to use to drill your holes in the hood for proper placement. A pair of brackets and template will be $27 plus shipping. It will save you a whole afternoon of trying to figure out how in the heck to mount the fog lights! Thanks!