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I’ve been very happy with my ARB Bull Bar bumper and its on-board turn signals, except for the fact that they’re not waterproof. Every now and again I’ll drive the truck through a stream, which inevitably rusts out the bulb sockets, corrodes the contacts, makes the bulb hard to change, and sometimes cause the light to fail.

My solution: waterproof the lenses.

The first thing I did was order a set of replacement lights. My friend Greg tipped me off that they’re the same lights as used on the Mark 1 VW Golf/Rabbit, so they’re easy to get. You can find them here at German Auto Parts. Read the rest of this entry »



I found a pretty cool solution for mounting a Hi-Lift jack to an ARB bumper using a pair of Chauvet clamps. They’re rated to support a load of 660 lbs each. Best of all they’re about half as expensive as any other solution I’ve found.

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