Originally Posted by Ldub
You made the support piece outta...er...ummm...HEMP???
Whattya nuts or something???...LOL
Now ya got ME to wonderin' what my favorite material is.
I'm gonna guess aluminium, but it could also be stainless steel or carbon fiber.
In any event, nice work, now go "blaze" a trail...). Just be aware of the added weight you are introducing.
**Since the stock light bar bolts directly to the roof of the liberty it simply "conforms" to the roof since the plastic has very little stiffness/rigidity. I wanted to add support/rigidity but keep the weight down...I'm happy how it turned out. And, If you don't want to paint it you don't have too. I just wanted it flat black like the rest of the Liberty LB.
***I have a metal fabrication shop just up the road from where I work and as luck would have it they had some excess aluminum diamond plate pieces (they refer to this as "a drop"). They used a punch press to cut off what I didn't need and sold me a piece as I requested: 44"L X 8"W X 1/4"thick for $20
At the beginning of this thread there was a VX on Ebay for sale with the Jeep Liberty Renegade Light Bar mounted in the same location as the jeep; which is what started the interest. It's too bad the photos are not still available for you to see. It was mainly the "overhang" on each side that made it look inappropriate on the VX. Otherwise..cutting it down would have made it look alot better IMHO.
It comes with instructions showing you how to mount it on the Liberty. It is meant to be bolted to your roof (which involves temporarily removing some of the headliner) via 7 drilled holes (using LB as a template) and you use a hole-saw to cut a 1" hole in your roof under the LB to run your wiring harness w/rubber grommet. This is how it is mounted on the Jeep Liberty Renegade. I personally didn't want to drill all those holes in the roof of my beloved VX and make it permanent. Also, I want to have a power sunroof installed and that dictates in my case where to mount the LB. Hope this helps!
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