Fog Lights mounting

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BruceVA

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I just purchased a pair of after-market fog lights from Synder's for my 1929 Tudor. My tentative plan is to mount them on the bumper where the bumper bracket attaches to the bumper & to wire them to the parking lights.

Would some of you please post some close up pics of similar fog lights mounted on your A? I'd like to see (or hear) exactly how you ran the wires from the lights along the bumper brackets. Yea, I know I can use zip ties, but I'd like to think there is better way!

Plan B would be to modify the light mounting brackets to fit on the bumper brackets, thereby allowing the wires to go directly under the pan w/o being visible. But, I think the lights would look better mounted on the bumper.

Thoughts, suggestions & pictures are welcome.
 
I had brackets made that mount to the bumper utilizing the existing bolts, ran the wires in the cloth loom and used 2 BLACK cable ties on each one. Looks "factory". Sorry, I haven't mastered pictures.
Paul in CT
 
I Wanted the lights close to the grille,so i made some brackets and ran the wires under the radiator.
By mounting them on the bumper they got in the way of the cranck handle
 

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Bruce, Go to my profile. Hit "Show all albums". You'll see "Highest Mileage Ford" This is pretty much an original one owner car (Actually two owner but the owner who has it now doesn't drive it) The old lady who was the original owner put all the mods on it. The fog lights are attached to the top rail of the bumper. Well you can see in the pics. It was probably done in the 30s or 40s. She had a paper route for years and had to get out every day with it.
Terry
 
Terry, that's a great picture of the lights! Do you recall how the wires were attached to the bumper brackets?
 
I attached my fog lights to the top bumper rail and ran black cloth covered wires under the bumper mounts. I turn them on with a separate switch hidden under the dash rail.

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Tom Wesenberg said:
With fog light wired to the parking lights, how would you turn them on for driving in the fog at night?
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I wondered that too. Here, driving lights MUST be wired via a dedicated switch so they can only be turned on when the main lights are on high beam. Why would you want them any other time???
 
If i was going to Install fog lights i would do as Y-block did with a separate switch.. i wouldnt want all that draw all the time when using the headlamps. ...
 
Synchro909 said:
I wondered that too. Here, driving lights MUST be wired via a dedicated switch so they can only be turned on when the main lights are on high beam. Why would you want them any other time???
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In the states the fog /driving ilights are wired to go off when the high beams are on...
Im talking any modern car
 
Synchro909 said:
I wondered that too. Here, driving lights MUST be wired via a dedicated switch so they can only be turned on when the main lights are on high beam. Why would you want them any other time???
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For some reason I am not fully aware of, in this country the driving lights or fog lights must only come on with low beam. It may be that in fog, low beams do not reflect back in your eyes, but for driving lamps, (not yelllow fog lamps) it would make more sense to have them on with high beams. All the new Harleys I bought were wired for driving lamps to be on only with low beams, but I always rewired them to come on with high or low main lamp.
 
JJASON said:
who is going to drive in the fog?
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Well, when I was much younger and dumber--before kids, before mortgages, before safety was invented--my wife and I spent the weekend camping the Blue Ridge Parkway in the Sport Coupe. We had the rumble seat and trunk box full of all of our camping equipment. The second night, we were late getting to our campground because we had stopped and hiked and eaten and looked at the scenery too many times. An overcast day turned into a super-foggy night as we headed for the campground. At one point, the fog was so thick I couldn't see anything out the windshield, and I was navigating by sticking my head out the window and watching the center line just in front of the front bumper. My wife read one of the signs that said "Tunnel--Turn On Headlights" and the next thing she saw was the sign that said "Turn Off Headlights." It was so foggy, we didn't even know we had been through the tunnel!

Even 40-some years later, when we approach a tunnel on the Parkway, one of us will invariable say, "Remember when . . .."

Sorry I can't really help with your question. But JJason challenged me.

W. Michael
 
jm29henry said:
Y block,you have,a very pretty car
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Art Newland said:
Ditto!
What's the story on the tool box on the front?
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Thanks jm and Art. She's an older restoration that is photogenic. :cool:
The tool box is one from Mike's Affordable. http://www.mikes-afordable.com/product/T1005.html It was on the car when I bought it. I carry a bottle jack, a couple pieces of 4x4 and a wheel chock http://www.harborfreight.com/solid-rubber-wheel-chock-96479.html along with a few other small tools.

I'm told the tool box helps direct air thru the radiator also. Don't know how effective that is but I suppose it can't hurt.
 
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On my 2004 & 2005 SUVs, the fog lights go off when the high beams come on.

One of these days I will get around to mounting the fog lights I have had sitting on a shelf in the garage. The ones I have are the same as the ones that YBLOCK has.

Lot's of ideas here on where and how to mount them.

I found some conduit similar to what the headlights & horn have, except that it's real skinny and longer. Thought that would make it look "original".
 
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