Florida B.S. Thread

Andre (Aerial Tacoma) came over this afternoon & with the help of Rick (Blackhorse) we installed Andre's new retrofit headlights. They look so good, pics don't do them justice.

 

aww man that's sick!!! so lemme sum up what you mean by "we installed"

rick: filmed it
andre: installed it
mike: thinkin bout his truck whether or not it is level, because it looks level while backed in, but looks low in the back while the front is in

 

Never brought up weather my truck was level or not.
We all got our hands dirty & yes Rick filmed it.
If you didnt keep coming up with these bullshit excuses for why you cant come over you would've been here to see for yourself.

 

haha, good times, i'll join ya one of these days, i mean that's assuming i invite myself over, since i'm not part of the clearwater bestie crew

 

I edited my post

 

I edited my post.

 

that double post lol

*whether.......hehe jk lol

oh and those retro fits look sick!

 

OK, if you two start BFF'n or talking shared lubes again.......................

 

Haha I don't know what happened with the double post.

 

Big Thanks to mike "spruce" and rick " blackhorse" for the help with my retro's today, will get photos up once the wiring and all the components are properly secured " not zip tied"

 

So even with the replacement of my 2 ft firestick with a new to me 3 ft firestick, my swr won't drop below 3.5 or 4. Gonna try to jump a ground to the antenna to see if that helps, but otherwise, I am thinking I need to replace the radio. This makes 2 different antennas that won't tune down. IE why I am thinking it's a radio issue.

 

I was having the same exact problem with my Wilson roof mag mounts (tried 2 of them brand new) until I got the firestick firefly (4ft) and put it on the tailight bracket it was within spec with only a little bit of tuning the tip. I did however scrape the paint off the screw holes of the mount so it could get a better ground to the bed.

 

Even with jumping a ground it didn't change. And I know when Chris Keene had this antenna he had no problem with tuning it. Thus I am looking towards the radio itself. Ow.

 

Try scraping some paint away around the bolt holes and see if that helps it any. The best I could get it was 1.4:1 on Ch 1 and 40.

 

Will do.

 

Huge improvement. I removed paint from the truck and the bracket and also re mounted the antenna. Realized it was mount incorrectly. New numbers are 2.5 at channel 1 and less than 1.1 on channel 40.

 

Cool, try to tune it some more and even that out. Try lengthening (loosening the screw) to even it out.


Edit: Oh if you are already not, go to the local HS or open field when doing all of this.

 

Just did that, got even better. About 1.5 and 1.8 now! Very happy. Thanks again.