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Nothing has leaked so far. It was a longer process making backing plates for the glands so that I didn't have to rely on screws in fiberglass to hold them on. They are backed with rubber washers and sealed around the bolt holes with silicone as well.

I disconnected the old satellite antenna at the yellow plug like in the other guys thread. I ran it behind the fascia of the sound bar, wrapped the extra length of cord around two pillars in the side fascia of the sound bar and along the covering on top of the door. At the door I ran it onto...

I know the Sirius antenna in a modern Jeep is combined or combinable with the antenna for GPS. It says so in the ads. I just don't see that stated in the ads for aftermarket antennas so I assumed they wouldn't have the GPS function. But mine seems to be functioning. I'm not an antenna guy so...

So the good news is I hooked up my new Sirius antenna. And it worked fine. Also unexpectedly my truck's navigation system also worked fine. Either the antenna I bought is GPS satellite capable or the navigation system has a different antenna. In any case I bought it for Sirius radio so it's...

Years ago I used to be on Above Top Secret which is dedicated to the tin foil hat crowd. It's not that I don't believe in all that stuff anymore it's just that I realized in the big scheme of things the government would really have no interest/reason to care where I go. I'm pretty darn boring...

I don't use the GPS so it didn't play into my choice of antenna. I don't think my antenna will pick up GPS. If that is a concern you can get the MOPAR SiruisXM/GPS antenna with cable for about $100. If it ends up doing something wonky without the GPS antenna (I couldn't guess what but with...

Here's the thread accessing the cable to the antenna. https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/forum/threads/sirius-xm-antenna-relocation-upgrade.65286/

I'm about to go through this. From another thread it seemed the best thing to do was to leave the antenna in place and put another antenna somewhere. Just unplug the old antenna and plug the new one in. I haven't connected it yet but here is my new antenna. But you can do the unplugging...

I am, indeed, a child of the sixties and seventies.

Finally got my roof rack mounted. In the last few weeks I got a hernia (probably that Saturday I rotated the tires) and there was therefore some precognizant wisdom in spending the extra money for an aluminum roof rack. Though it had some heft to it I was able to get it on the roof all by my...

They are 9" Hellas and I have a winch. So not much room in the center of the aftermarket bumper. At 9" if I mount them on top of the bumper it looks like they might partially sit in the headlight beam or of I move them over they could partially obscure the turn signals. For safety reasons I...

Nervous day for me today. Years ago there was a country group called Confederate Railroad. One of their songs was titled "When You Leave This Way You Can Never Go Back". Song kept going through my head as I finally drilled the roof to install my glands for my antenna wire pass throughs...

Nothing yet. I'm just thinking ahead to my next project. You don't need a cad file? If I choose you can do aluminum? How much? Just a rough estimate for inch of cut. Because cutting out buying the cad program that I'd probably only use a few times is where I'd save quite a bit of money...

I'm willing to let someone do the welding. Especially if I decide to go aluminum. I was never good at aluminum and not going to try and relearn it with an underpowered machine. Plus I always had adequate welders (Miller, Hobart) and don't want to buy a cheaper machine. Though they are much...

I just remember that third most used power tool I used to own was my 12" disc sander from Harbor Freight. Used it to size pieces to fit and rounded sharp corners off metal pieces. Just about every project I did used that disc sander. My big drill press and hand held grinder with cutoff wheel...

The only reason I'd get the air compressor is to work the plasma cutter. I figure the pneumatic cutoff disc would be just to get a little more use from the compressor. Without a plasma cutter your idea is very sound. I wouldn't be surprised if a medium sized compressor would pop the circuit...

So just a brief backstory. In my old life I had a shop behind my house and all the good tools. This would have been a no brainer. But now I'm living in an apartment and space is a consideration. Someday I'm getting a shop again so I'm not adverse to collecting some tools. But I need to be...

So I'd like to put a kill switch in but I'd rather not chop the wires. I figure a Y connector would be a good three hour project. But I can't seem to find the part number for the connector to the switch. From that I could find the partner (male) connector as well. Anyone direct me in the...

The only thing better than a tinfoil hat is covering your whole roof with aluminum. They'll never get me now.

The ground plane project for UHF and VHF continues on. I've done the mount of both the quarter wave antennas. I raised the UHF one a bit higher and gave it its own ground plane. The raised white antenna is the Sirius/GPS antenna. I'm doing the final fitting of everything. So this phase will...