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My life has been touched significantly by fire. I also once stopped a nascent grass fire by using a fire extinguisher. Which where it was could've gone really bad if it had spread. I don't think I've ever seen a car on fire or a home on fire where anyone ever said that there were too many fire...

When you buy something from a large manufacturer you are paying for engineering and testing. They spend a lot making sure a system works and does not cause issues. Not saying that small aftermarket companies cannot come up with a good product but it is sort of a buyer beware sort of thing. In...

Project took a while. I've now got 2 A,B,C five pound fire extinguishers and will be purchasing a Halothane one to fill the third mount. This project took a while. I needed to make the whole system mountable to the tailgate, easily and quickly removable if I wanted the truck to be used as a...

I'm guessing if I was truly a nerd I'd know what a sql statement was. 😂🤣😂🤣 🤔🤔

Sort of correct. I went from stock antenna, built a ground plane which meant the stock antenna did not work anymore, mounted a marine Sirius Antenna because I didn't ever use my trucks GPS so I figured I wouldn't miss it, didn't realize my truck's compass needed the GPS, realized I used the...

I did it for ease of maintenance and access. If I ever have to work on the antenna base or wire beneath it I can just undo the panel. The hole under the small panel is 3 ot 4 inches if I remember correctly. There are Rivnuts underneath so all I have to do is unscrew the bolts from the top and...

There's two laird antennas up there, the second one is out of the picture to the left. The antenna you see is going to be for my GMRS radio. The disk is the ground plane. The whole aluminum floor is the ground plane for a VHF antenna I have mounted in the center. I'm working to get power...

So I got tired of not having a compass in my truck having replaced the stock Sirius/GPS antenna with a marine Sirius Antenna. So I bought the stock dual antenna and mounted it above the roof rack so it could get a great signal. And it is working so well. As part of the project I decided to...

Dang. I thought those naked pictures of me were coming back to haunt me .... again.

Those steps a good product? I weigh about 255# and was thinking of buying a stepstool so I can get stuff off the roof rack easier but those look like a good solution as well. And not having to carry a stepstool around.

Got my Hella 4000 Halogen Rallye Lights mounted. Nect project is to buy the switches and wire them up. Think I'm going to go with VoSwitch.

Bump. I'm looking at power control for my new lights. The idea of not running a wire through the firewall is appealing. So I've thought about the Trigger 6 Shooter Accesiry Switch System. But I haven't seen a great place to mount their switches. And I absolutely love the switch mount...

I wish you had asked me while I drilling throught it. I would have measured. But I drilled through the Freedom Top and not the back part so I can only speak to that. Be aware that there are parts of the roof that are single layer and other parts that appear like they might be double layer...

I'm not an electronics genius and figure tens if not 100's of thousands of HAM and CB folks have run coaxial cables in their cars/trucks without any problems by just running the cable so this wasn't about building a better electronic mousetrap. I just wanted to build it and then over the years...

Aluminum tubing. Not purposed conduit. Keeps the coax from sagging and rubbing. If you run the antenna cable under the crossbars and hang it from hangers it gets pretty close to the roof. Then if you tighten that up to keep it off the roof you get force at each support where the wire has to...

Also I built hatches at each antenna mount and over the pass throughs in the roof so that if I needed to work on something in those areas I could remove the hatch and access the area. The pass throughs have not leaked even in the open and in heavy rain but if they do I'd like to be able to try...

So I finally got the major parts of my ground plane project finished. As noted prior this will serve as a ground plane for 1/4 wave antennas for a GMRS radio and another 2 meter/VHF radio. The roofrack will also function as a roof rack if needed and the ground plane will act as shade for the...

It was a couple of weeks ago but I got Bridgestone 285/70r17 tires mounted. Slight drop in gas mileage. Whole huge drop in road noise. My wife asked what the sound was as we were driving down the highway and I told her wind noise. She never noticed it before with all the noise the stock...

No, it's a compression fitting. The connector on the Sirius antenna cable was a little on the large side but I jimmied it through the rubber seal and since it required a 3mm hole in the seal was slightly large for a 2.5 mm wire I had put shrink wrap on the wire to get it to 3mm to make a tight...

I guess I could have connected the antenna directly to the head unit but this was easier and easier to replace if I have a problem. I'm a pretty bug dude and I hate squeezing into the footweels to work behind the dash. Working at the roof/ceiling was just nicer. And since I was going to drill...