What did you do to your truck today?
10-06-2013, 05:48 PM
#9451
It's a Canadian thing eh!
Got the new shocks in so now I can hit speed bumps at full speed again. I also may or may not have set the inner fender well on fire when I heated up the shock bolts to get them out
I also installed some used coils in a co-workers F150 as both of his were broken and I used my old shocks to replace both his blown ones. I would have done the alignment but lifting the truck up on the hoist the leaf hanger gave out lol.
I also installed some used coils in a co-workers F150 as both of his were broken and I used my old shocks to replace both his blown ones. I would have done the alignment but lifting the truck up on the hoist the leaf hanger gave out lol.
10-06-2013, 05:51 PM
#9452
Dailydriving300ci-of-fury
Installed the cb and it came with an external speaker. Made a bracket it for it as well. Installed and wired. Time for tune-age. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.
10-06-2013, 10:33 PM
#9453
10-06-2013, 10:53 PM
#9454
Dailydriving300ci-of-fury
It's actually a Connex 3300. The external speaker is a cobra though. And the cb I had in the tuck before was a cobra. It's now in my 2wd 4 banger ranger I use for my job. Forgot to mention it came with an awesome mic too. Haha. 'Merica
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10-07-2013, 09:07 AM
#9455
10-07-2013, 09:07 AM
#9456
Salvage Yard Pro
That 3300 was an awesome radio. A good CB Shop can get some swing out that bad boy. I've been thinking about getting back into the CB world, but that's a whole other monster that I won't be satisfied with. Always had to go bigger and louder. Not sure if I wanna start building twin alternator brackets and dual battery setups to power up the old Palomar again. Man I miss those days!
10-07-2013, 11:59 AM
#9457
Dailydriving300ci-of-fury
That 3300 was an awesome radio. A good CB Shop can get some swing out that bad boy. I've been thinking about getting back into the CB world, but that's a whole other monster that I won't be satisfied with. Always had to go bigger and louder. Not sure if I wanna start building twin alternator brackets and dual battery setups to power up the old Palomar again. Man I miss those days!
10-07-2013, 03:16 PM
#9459
Salvage Yard Pro
It's all in the wallet! Back 20 years ago, I was running around with my Ranger 2950 or my Galaxy 88 putting out 50 watts from just the radios. Then we got into the amps running anywhere from 250w - 1200w and some people running more power than that. We thought we were cool driving through neighborhoods opening up garage doors and turning on touch lamps inside peoples houses. Of course, it wasn't legal to run more than 5w then nor is it legal to run more than 5w now. The amps are still available on line or at most any cb shop. You probably won't see them displayed though. We used to be serious into Key Downs and Transmitter Hunts and made good money in competition. We had to recoup some of the costs. I started out running 125a alternators and frying them in short order. Then we got up into dual alternators and eventually 300a big rig alternators. We couldn't afford all of the equipment and custom brackets, so we made our own brackets and found high output alternators in the big truck salvage yards, had them rebuilt at a local alternator shop and did all of the wiring ourselves. Single batteries didn't work too well either. We wound up with 2-3 batteries and isolators in the trunk. It was allot like the crank it up contests back in the day. We were self taught and learned allot in the process. Marriage and children put a quick halt to the toys. My son is moved out on his own now and we've been doing a little Google Searching recently. I couldn't and wouldn't afford to go wild like we used to and the fact that I've got a Ham License now wouldn't help either. I don't even use the Ham Radios anymore. Smart Phones pretty much negate the need except for disaster needs. Heck, there's even an app out now where I can talk on some of the ham Frequencies with my smart phone. Gotta love technology.
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10-07-2013, 03:59 PM
#9460
Dailydriving300ci-of-fury
It's all in the wallet! Back 20 years ago, I was running around with my Ranger 2950 or my Galaxy 88 putting out 50 watts from just the radios. Then we got into the amps running anywhere from 250w - 1200w and some people running more power than that. We thought we were cool driving through neighborhoods opening up garage doors and turning on touch lamps inside peoples houses. Of course, it wasn't legal to run more than 5w then nor is it legal to run more than 5w now. The amps are still available on line or at most any cb shop. You probably won't see them displayed though. We used to be serious into Key Downs and Transmitter Hunts and made good money in competition. We had to recoup some of the costs. I started out running 125a alternators and frying them in short order. Then we got up into dual alternators and eventually 300a big rig alternators. We couldn't afford all of the equipment and custom brackets, so we made our own brackets and found high output alternators in the big truck salvage yards, had them rebuilt at a local alternator shop and did all of the wiring ourselves. Single batteries didn't work too well either. We wound up with 2-3 batteries and isolators in the trunk. It was allot like the crank it up contests back in the day. We were self taught and learned allot in the process. Marriage and children put a quick halt to the toys. My son is moved out on his own now and we've been doing a little Google Searching recently. I couldn't and wouldn't afford to go wild like we used to and the fact that I've got a Ham License now wouldn't help either. I don't even use the Ham Radios anymore. Smart Phones pretty much negate the need except for disaster needs. Heck, there's even an app out now where I can talk on some of the ham Frequencies with my smart phone. Gotta love technology.