OK, so I got this wild hair up my a$$ and decided it would be much cooler to wave my pirate flag or American flag on my jeep while off roading or crusin the beaches in the Outer Banks.

First off, I can't stress enough how bad of an idea it would be to drive down the highway with this. I’ve done a 10 minute trip at 70mph and it alone tore the ends of my flag. So this is for slow driving only!!!!

Alrighty, so with the stock bumper, there isn’t much room for this and still have tailgate unreality along with sturdiness of the mount. Most after market bumpers would be perfect since they are steel and have plenty of flat spots.

With that being said, I used the 3rd brake light pillar as the mount. Its metal, strong, and works.

So, from Home Depot, I got this flag mount:


And some screws to fit it which I cut down in length so that they'd fit with out having to drill all the way through the light mount:


Now, I mounted it rather high so that the tail gate can close without pushing this thing against the rear soft top window, incase its ever closed while I’m using this.




Once you drill your holes based off the mounting plate, tap them or you can come in from the other side as well and use bolts and nuts. If you do decide to tap them like I did, make sure you tap them parallel to the plate and not the light mount. The light mount has a slight curve to it so your screws will be crocked when going in.

Once its on, mount your flag and you're ready to show off.

 

wouldnt fast driving also put more stress on the brake light mount?

 

yeah... again... thats why i said this is not for fast driving... but you would be suprised in how strong that mount is...

 

That's a nice looking mount.

 

Thank you for that write up. I have toyed with so many ideas on how to do this and you did it the obvious way. I will take care of this tomorrow!!!! I cant wait for my skull and cross bones to fly!

 

Looks like a great idea for the 4th of July

 

That's what I was thinking

 

I want to do this but I have a hard top. It looks like the hard top rear window sits closer to the third brake light than the soft top does. Has anyone done this with a hard top it looks like it would be a real tight squeeze

 

This is awesome! I am going to try and do this by the 4th of July

 

This did not work with my hard top so I improvised. I took a 2" to 1 1/4" adapter and welded a piece of metal to it then bolted the flag mount onto it. Works really well