IMHO... Who cares? I didn't buy the Gladiator for it's resale value. I bought it to build what I want and take it on adventures. Is it a bad "investment"? If you're looking at it from a financial perspective... YES! All new vehicles are bad investments from the financial perspective. If you...
This is the custom mounting bracket my son cut for me. I think I'm going to move the switch pod a little closer to the battery and move the breaker back where it's in line with the previous mounting holes, This way I can drill out the holes a bit and add a couple of grommets and the route the...
My son custom cut a mounting plate for my 6 gang Auxbeam switch pod so that it could be mounted net to the battery. He did a beautiful job. Of course, he left me to drill the holes for mounting everything and I screwed it up and now the box is interfering with the hood closing. Nothing that...
This is the mic holder that is mounted to the handle bar above the glove box.
This is the universal mounting system with the 2 20mm balls. One has a mic holder and the other has a mobile radio holder. It's mounted to the JCR Off-road molle panel.
Then, of course, this is the Rubigrid...
You could possibly fabricate something from a GoPro mounting kit. But I haven't seen anything on the market that would use the GoPro mount to CB/ham/GMRS radio mic.
I have the BPMS on the dash for my phone, GoPro, and what will eventually become my switch pod. Then I have the 20mm ball mount...
Baptism Overland on YouTube did a video where he used the pass throughs from the boating world to install a solar panel. And he did a pretty nice job on the install in general.
My son and I finally completed the Yeasu and Midland radio installs this weekend!
Next stop on the build will like be adding rocker steps and perhaps some pod lights and an switch panel.
Spent some time with a friend of mine, who has a bad ass overland rig, this past weekend improving the wring for my ham and gmrs radios. Just got in the last of my parts to hopefully complete the installs this weekend.
Spent some quality time with a buddy this weekend shoring up my comms power. We added a 40 amp breaker to run my ham and GMRS radios. Waiting on a couple of parts to finish out the install, hopefully this weekend.
Thanks for the head's up. I'll keep it on the radar. I recently went wheeling with a pretty large group and several people had them and didn't seem to be having any issues, but I will keep a watch on it. ?
I'm a licensed ham and GMRS user, so of course I need to have radios. Here are some shots of the install of the Midland 15 watt GMRS trail radio. It is mounted to a JCR Offroad center console molle panel. I'l be meeting up with a friend of mine this weekend to install a Yaesu 6000 50 watt ham...
The next major update was a grill insert and a new bumper. I went with the Barricade Trail Force HD. It's an OK bumper, but it was kind of a pain to install. I will likely keep it for a while and upgrade it later. But it's fully acceptable for the time being.