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Here's a photo of it up...
Sorry for the crappy pic... the lighting is terrible this morning. I need to try again when the truck is in the garage or in the late evening when the contrast isn't confusing my phone.
DVE bracket with backup camera...
I'm trying to strike a balance between...
This. Whenever I stop to get fuel I have to leave a few extra minutes, because I know that the driver whose car is on the other side of the pump, or in the next lane over, is going to want to ask about it. Once when coming out of Wallyworld I was stopped no less than three times: once as I was...
I saw a set a week or two ago for ~$600... WTF? Is it made out of unobtainium and plated with gold? It's a five-foot section of corrugated aluminum, for Pete's sake. Supply and demand I guess, but I'm not paying those prices.
Cut down a two-man cargo divider (which I picked up really cheap), made my own seal out of a section of aluminum angle, repainted and applied weather stripping. I'm planning to get it into the truck later today (I hope)
Installed the remote controlled spotlight I got off ebay. Mounted in an antenna-mount box, but that's what I had available.
Here's an animated gif of it in action
Controlled by an inop turret joystick--I replaced the guts with an arcade control joystick.
Here in KS for registration of vehicles that came from out of state they just do a VIN inspection to (supposedly) ensure that it's not stolen/re-titled. I don't drive a lot after dark anyway.
I have the light, but I want to fab up something better than just my steel plate before I install it.
Fleabay has a number of options. Right now I'm running a piece of plate steel with one hole for the airlift bumper bolt and two holes to mount the license plate
I decided to put it outside the swing of the tailgate so I can still use it if the gate is down. It's a little hard to see, but it's right above the reverse light.
Got the driver's seat cover from Jatonka installed. I need to pull it a little tighter, but it's very well made and a good fit.
I also added these flip up steps to the rear bumper.
I spent a few years jumping out of planes and was in a pretty bad motorcycle accident a while back and have...
Honestly one of the coolest things about driving these things around is the people you meet. Almost every time I stop for groceries, or pull in to get fuel, or pop in to the hardware store, someone wants to talk... either about their time in the service, or mine, or how their uncle Joe was in...
No pics, but I got a lot done this weekend.
The radio tray was squeaking when the truck hit a bump, so I pulled it. The little mounts that hold the tray legs were loose--the rivnuts were about to give way. So I pulled them and the aluminum of the tunnel was cracked, so I couldn't install new at...
Not really to my HMMWV, but for it...
Made out of a tackle box, a NOCO 24v charger, a Nato slave plug. I put the box under the front of the truck and plug it into an extension cord. The cord powers the charger and a short extension cord that comes out the same end as the slave plug. I plug...
Like the old joke:
I am a fully automated car. I will not crash, I will not get lost.
Nothing possibly can go wrong... can go wrong... can go wrong... can go wrong...
Got the tire carrier installed...
The good:
- Looks (mostly) like an airlift bumper
- Tire sits low enough not to block view out back window
- Cheap ($150)--back when I bought
this airlift bumpers were regularly selling for $500
The bad:
- Not actually an airlift bumper :D
-...
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