Weekend Warrior 2nd gen build

Nice build

 

Thanks man! I hope to keep adding to the thread I have some other projects lined up for the truck soon.

 

Power is out, took a little 10 min drive to the lake by the house to let the phones charge.

 

Damn, your property looks gorgeous. Your neighbors are so far away!

 

oh I know, luckily I'm just renting and ill be moving out of here by the end of the month into that wonderful trailer for 45 days and then a nicer townhouse.

 

I need to put together a build page for mine maybe I’ll work on that. Keep us updated love watching trucks evolve

 

Do it! It was a crappy rainy day and I had nothing better to do so I threw this together.

 

No man that is plenty detailed for what I want to do. I have been thinking of some bed platform to mount my fridge to. I would love a drawer setup. Goose Gear is the premium stuff but comes with an extra premium price.

 

Oh yeah for sure, their stuff is nice but i don’t have that king of budget for drawers. Honestly building them was a pretty fun project also.

 

So I knocked out some stuff in the back but in the process of doing stuff, I didn't take many pictures. I did manage to capture my dirty battery and isolator setup. Originally I was going to swap out my current battery for an Optima yellow top but after finding out that my problem was just a bad ground I decided to take another route (if it's not broken don't fix it)

Charge isolator separating the second battery from starting battery


This is an old competition stereo battery that has done nothing but hold up strong for years. It holding around 12.83 V charge when disconnected from the main battery. I had it laying around for a while when I was going to put a sound system in my old Trooper. The battery was overkill but it's now serving its purpose as a secondary battery for accessories. Thanks @Arcticelf for helping me on the decision of the yellow top even though I ended up returning it today.
Specs for the battery https://www.sonicelectronix.com/item_10461_Kinetik-HC2000-Special-Application-Version.html


I ran another 12v cigarette outlet to the backside of the drawer system for a cleaner install of my fridge instead of running a 12v extension cable from the front to the back. That now opens my 12v cig outlet on my blue sea panel upfront for some charging.

Also while I was back there I ran my cables from my Solar charger to my battery, this way whenever my tent gets here Ill just be able to mount the solar panel and be good to go. I will also be cleaning up the lines leading to the controller before I reassemble my drawers.


I've been fighting thunderstorms all week so my time to get out and actually work on the truck is limited and I have to move by the 26th so Ive been pretty spread thin

Upcoming plans for the truck
Before July 4th (planned trip to Cape Lookout Nc for the weekend)- Install GMRS since its all here
Side note: I'm stoked I was able to fit the midland ghost antenna onto the BAMF CB antenna mount with no modding needed. This will also help take away from my eyesore of a gap right now.
Thank you to @m603holden and @fatfurious2 for the help with picking out radio stuff.

Hopefully, wire my turn signals to my sport mirrors after reading some of the TW threads it doesn't seem like too bad of a Job to knock out in a couple of hours.

After July 4th, ill be making a trip out to NC to take off the cap and remove the drawers and fix my bedside gap. My bed shifted after my last hard hit and I'm thinking that moving the bed back into its proper place and maybe a little ratchet strap/come along work everything will line back up nicely. Im going to be going to a buddy that I went to collison school with so hopefully with both of our powers combined we can knock it out.This will also give me time to deep clean and better seal my bed while everything is out.

This is a picture with my new driverside rear light in which shows the panel is okay and it's more of the bedside moving out. (even with my TC bed stiffeners that were installed at the time of the hit)

 

@fatfurious2 how did you mount the radio under the seat. I know its ghetto but im thinking a piece of velcro

 

Ive seen some others use velcro. I dont have any issues. If i cant hear it, i have an external speaker to plug in. I like that its hidden

 

Is yours just free floating? like not hard mounted anywhere?

 

Its zip-tied to the bottom of the seat

 

10-4 might do that too, my stupid extension came broken so now im waiting on that to show up again.

 

Had some time installed the gmrs antenna on the BAMF mount

 

Didn't the instructions say to put it at the highest point of the vehicle?

 

People put them on their hoods I’m assuming it’s fine if not I’ll move it. I’m about to test it in a couple mins. Gonna give Brittany a handheld and drive around

 

Idk about this claimed 36 mile range the handhelds are saying, I barely made it out of my street before they were out of range.

 

Lol