New truck......

[jharvey]

Picked up my 06 F-350 Lariat CC LB FX4 today, HOLY COW what a great ride

Can't get this stupid grin off my face

 

[BJS]

Congrats on the new ride I'm sure you'll enjoy the new toys.


So what's the first mod you're gonna do to the truck?????

 

[95_stroker]

Congrats John... I knew you were going to love it!!

 

[CHPMustang]

Picked up my 06 F-350 Lariat CC LB FX4 today, HOLY COW what a great ride

Can't get this stupid grin off my face

Indeed congrats ont he new truck there John!

Update your photo album when ya get a chance with shots of the rig

Bill

 

[jharvey]

Just uploaded some pics to webshots. I'll get some more later, I gotta go crash, grinning this hard is extremely tiring

John

 

[jharvey]

Congrats on the new ride I'm sure you'll enjoy the new toys.


So what's the first mod you're gonna do to the truck?????

First mod will be the high idle on AUX 4. Then guages and maybe a SCT later on.

Gotta get all my radio gear back in and wired up, no HAM radio makes me jittery

 

[CHPMustang]

Killer truck there John

Gotta get the radio/s back in there pronto!

What antenna mounting arrangements you have in mind?

Bill

 

[jharvey]

Bill, I am not sure how I am going to mount antennas yet, my Yaesu FT-7800 has a removable head so I thought about mounting the brains under the rear seat and remote the head unit into the flip out storage tray under the dash. Remote speaker down there somewhere as well.

As for antennas I'm not real sure, I need to look at some different mounts for my NMO Diamond.

Got any ideas??

Oh yeah, how are these engines and noise on HF?? If it's like my 7.3 I might as well forget HF

 

[CHPMustang]

Bill, I am not sure how I am going to mount antennas yet, my Yaesu FT-7800 has a removable head so I thought about mounting the brains under the rear seat and remote the head unit into the flip out storage tray under the dash. Remote speaker down there somewhere as well.

As for antennas I'm not real sure, I need to look at some different mounts for my NMO Diamond.

Got any ideas??

I always recommend roof mounts but on your brand new rig I dunno about that.

You could do a NMO trunk lip mount(no drill) on the hood nearest the black cowling an alternative would be top headache rack mounted on L brackets.
"Oboy" has his NMO 2 meter/440 antenna/s mounted on top of the headache rack,see photo attachment;

 

[jharvey]

Thanks Bill, no holes in the roof though

I'll be heading over to the local HRO to investigate mounts tomorrow and some other cool things as well

Got the high idle done tonight, took longer to remove the fuse panel than it did to hook everything up

1 mod down still a long way to go though.