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Hella 500s in Liberty Renegade housings

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Old 08-12-2007, 11:49 AM
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Default Hella 500s in Liberty Renegade housings

I had two spare fog light housings from my 05 Liberty Renegade that I used to mount my new Hella 500 fog lights to my Unlimited X bumper.

The Renegades came with the Hella 500s from the factory, so the new lights just snapped into the housing.

I had to drill out the mounting holes to fit the allen-head bolts I bought at Lowe's to mount them on the bumper, but other than that they are a perfect fit.

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Here are the allen bolts from Lowe's. I used a 3" bolt to get through the bumper plastic and metal. Nylon lock nuts and lock washers on the underside hold it very tightly.

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I mounted the relay to the engine bay via an unused hole.

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The fogs were wired into the low beams and kick off when the high beams are switched on. The white with blue stripe is the low beam wire.

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The Liberty housings had two mounting tabs on each base that had to be shaved down. (This took about 30 second with a Dremel.) With the lights mounted it looks like it came from the factory this way.

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Here is a closeup of the mounting bolts.

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Nicely done, I like the looks of the Hella 500's, I'm thinking of getting these as replacements for the factory fogs when I change bumpers.

Excellent job!!



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