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KKnut, if you are going to disconnect the rear you will have to have limit straps or your coils will just fall out when it fully extends, may also have the tail shaft hitting the fuel tank!!! If you need help with the position of the straps give me a yell


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Nice tip. Where did you source the straps from mate?

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I finally got the Yakima MegaWarrior roof basket back on, after changing over to Front Runner tracks and crossbars. The basket is now 5cm lower, which is awesome since it was scraping the 2.1m clearance bar in my apartment's car park before that

Also, the light bar sits on the rails independently of the basket. The new 50" light bar doesn't whistle at all, but there was some minor wind noise at 100kph or higher. When the basket went back on, the wind breaker at the front has actually made it even more quiet and not really noticeable at all now.

The LumaLED light bar is 672 watts which is more than double most bars. IT IS BRIGHT! It's spot light is bloody impressive, and side floods are great. I am not sure how to demonstrate that with a photo though since I'd have to underexpose the photo just so the whole picture wasn't all white haha.

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How big is the alternater in a kk, I'd be getting worried at 672 watts. It must be bright haha
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It is bright, but light bar companies lie! Light bars are advertised with their theoretical wattage, not their actual wattage. To avoid this from being common knowledge, most larger bars don't seem to publish their official amp draw. LumuLEDs wouldn't even answer it when I emailed them hahah. Mine has 96 LEDS that are 7 watts (672 watts in theory). That means, when the engine is running, it should pull 46 amps (672w divided by 14.5 volts). In real life it pulls roughly 30 amps which is about actual 435 watts. The most common 50" light bar is 288 watts (96 LEDS that are 3w) but in real life it will be more like 180-200 watts.

Either way, the KK has a 160 amp alternator from memory, so it's no problem.

Some people get a higher amps when they measure their bar, and assume that their bar is more efficient than others. Unlikely. In actual fact this is more likely due to the incorrect use of thin gauge wire (or too much wire) which increases the resistance and forces the light to pull more amps to compensate for the loss. The loss is heat of course, which is why thin wires melt.
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Slowley chipping away at my 11 KK, so far brought it with 70,000 on the clock and stock besides a flimzy little light bar monted to the front.
Removed that ASAP, soon to replace it with a decent bar n winch.
Fitted 2.5" Iron man lift with 30mm spacers in the front and 5mm spacer in the rear.
With the lift i got 16' 255-70 all terrain Maxxiss Bravo.
Wired a 42" phillips LED bar to the custom Alloy roof cage (soon to be powdered black)

Advaentures in the jeep keep wanting more add on's

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