Cab lights on TJ

[TJX02]

Can someone please tell me this is a bad idea so that I can stop thinking about it?

Attach a crossbar to a set of cringey LED light bar windshield brackets and instead of installing lights, install amber cab lights in the traditional arrangement from trucks and Broncos in the 80s.

I guess you could install cab lights on a hard top but then they’d be removed with the top off. A crossbar bracket on a windshield mount seems like a practical alternative but I’m having trouble envisioning it and suspect it might not look as cool as I’d hope.

I google searched this concept and am not finding much. What do you think about this?

 

[Chris]

I know what you're going for and I personally do not think it would look good on a TJ. On an F350, sure

 

[Squatch]

Can someone please tell me this is a bad idea

It's a bad idea. So is this...

 

[alittleoff]

Some years back, someone on here put those small 1/2" LED's at the top of the windshield frame.
IIRC, they drilled 3/4" holes to insert those lights with the supplied grommets.
And ran the wires inside the frame down to the hinge and then to the wire for the headlights.
It was a clean look but not for me.

 

[Blue Clearwater]

Can someone please tell me this is a bad idea so that I can stop thinking about it?

It's a bad idea. Stop thinking about it.

 

[ColoJeep]

Some years back, someone on here put those small 1/2" LED's at the top of the windshield frame.
IIRC, they drilled 3/4" holes to insert those lights with the supplied grommets.
And ran the wires inside the frame down to the hinge and then to the wire for the headlights.
It was a clean look but not for me.

Also there was a dude from BC Canada that had 5 clearance lights on the hardtop . Something like this.

 

[B1Toad]

It's a bad idea. So is this...

I got some of those mounted underneath my motorhome. I want to do the 4 note Cadillac horns but they are really hard to find these days, used ones going for $200 on ebay.

 

[Zorba]

It's a bad idea. So is this...
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Wow, I've been wondering where I could put a set of horns like that on my TJ! I even have the web address to order them too!

 

[ColoJeep]

Wow, I've been wondering where I could put a set of horns like that on my TJ! I even have the web address to order them too!

Packaging can be an issue.

 

[Zorba]

Packaging can be an issue.

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Stops tailgaters! Knew a guy in high school that had a little truck - a Datsun IIRC. He had a train horn facing forward, and a locomotive headlite facing backwards! Nobody tailgated him - at least not for long - and everybody got outta his way!

 

[L J]

Can someone please tell me this is a bad idea so that I can stop thinking about it?

This is a bad idea.

 

[Squatch]

Your call...

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I got some of those mounted underneath my motorhome.

"Underneath" being the operative word here...

 

[CharlesHS]

Stops tailgaters! Knew a guy in high school that had a little truck - a Datsun IIRC. He had a train horn facing forward, and a locomotive headlite facing backwards! Nobody tailgated him - at least not for long - and everybody got outta his way!

When I was a member of NAXJA (North American XJ Association) we had an forum member with the user name of Traindriver.
He was an engineer on trains for 25+ years and decided to install a train horn in his Jeep.
The blast that horn put out could be heard for miles.
Never did understand how he could tolerate that noise level when it tooted....
My hearing is not the greatest after being exposed to loud engineering machinery while in the USN and as a Plant Engineer as a civilian; I could barely tolerate the sound with fingers plugging my ears a 1/4 mile away.

 

[Camdenst]

I know you might not necessarily want a light bar, but I think this would probably a better alternative.

 

[JMT]

It's a bad idea. So is this...
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Horny Jeep.

 

[Rickstar321]

It's a bad idea. So is this...
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Sigh... now he can't mount his High-lift jack up there...

 

[JMT]

Can someone please tell me this is a bad idea so that I can stop thinking about it?

Attach a crossbar to a set of cringey LED light bar windshield brackets and instead of installing lights, install amber cab lights in the traditional arrangement from trucks and Broncos in the 80s.

I guess you could install cab lights on a hard top but then they’d be removed with the top off. A crossbar bracket on a windshield mount seems like a practical alternative but I’m having trouble envisioning it and suspect it might not look as cool as I’d hope.

I google searched this concept and am not finding much. What do you think about this?

This is a bad idea. Stop thinking about it.

 

[Apparition]

I know you might not necessarily want a light bar, but I think this would probably a better alternative.

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Could at least add the link

https://www.quadratec.com/p/quadratec/j5-led-light-bar-amber-clearance-cab-lights


Somebody did it

 

[DavidBT]

Could at least add the link

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https://www.quadratec.com/p/quadratec/j5-led-light-bar-amber-clearance-cab-lights


Somebody did it

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Dang, my redneckism is kicking in!!

 

[TJX02]

Could at least add the link

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https://www.quadratec.com/p/quadratec/j5-led-light-bar-amber-clearance-cab-lights


Somebody did it

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I don’t hate it, but it seems perhaps too technologically advanced for a TJ and fear it would lose its cool factor during the day. At night time though, it might get the job done.