OverlAnderson’s Build N stuff

Quick stop in Zion NP


Then we ended up at the black mailbox Area 51 driving down the Extra Terrestrial highway

 

stopped for the night in Yosemite


Overnight in San Fran!


Headed out that morning down the 1. Few hours of highway road got me a little dirt road sick and I wanted to take a short detour which ended up taking a few too many hours...stuck.



luckily there was someone there to help pull us out!

A few hours later we got out of that mess and we’re on our way to Ave of the Giants to see the giant Redwood and Sequoias.

 

We then moved along up the west coast to Oregon. We found this sweet FS road that led us to our camp along the river for the night. Totally secluded it was a perfect spot!

 

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few things I did prior to the road trip I didn’t post.

Mounted the max traxx to the Thule tacks I installed a while back

Ultra gauge in a mesocustoms overhead mount to tack fuel mileage and various other stats while on the road. Not sure how I achieved 30+mpg average

Mapped out the route on the Garmin overlander and mounted for easy access
Paired with the wireless rear view cam since I’ve blocked my OEM can now.


Camp lights installed I used some rigid amber rock lights. Rigid came in clutch with these thick angle mounts worked perfect for what I wanted!

Added some rago rock light mounts in combo with the rigid angle base for the rear

Exhaust chopped

Plano recovery gear case installed

 

I missed my anytime rear cam button dearly so I swapped the wireless Garmin cam for the OEM one.
Super easy mod.

pull off tailgate skid

unroute wire harness

Remove and remount camera, I also had to extend the harness a tad to reach the mount point I wanted on the swing out

Fin


now I’ll use the wireless one for a front mount cam to see upcoming obstacles on the trail

 

How exactly did you extend your factory rear camera? Was that angled bracket the one that came out of the stock tailgate latch area? Looking at getting a rear bumper and don't want to not have my rear camera be blocked so I'll have to relocate it as well. Did you just add more wire length to the existing wires to extend it?

 

So I left the bracket in the Tailgate and up drilled the center hole with a step bit in a Rago rock light mount I had laying around. For the harness extension I just took some regular r7 20AWG wire and spliced it in close to the large connector under the truck.

 

Awesome thanks!

 

It was pretty easy the only reason I had to add length was because I was adding it on the swing out and it had to be mounted where it closes over the top of the license plate

 

Wow, one of the coolest builds I've seen. Loving your ride height - makes me want to redo my suspension asap.

 

Thanks man! Honestly if I could do it all over I wouldn’t have gone with the drop bracket lift. It just limits what you can do ie. Skids, long travel ect... I’ve had to find alternate methods to correct my earlier mistakes but it’s played out alright

 

To TPAM or not to TPAM?

 

I've been thinking out getting one of those... Right now I have a cup holder mount for my tablet that I use to track off roading trails, but it gets in the way. I figured this i can mount my cb radio, phone, and tablet in one plate where my knee doesn't hit it

Edit: added photo

 

Tech Deck works for me!

 

It does me too..... but more mounting solutions!!!!

 

And additional power ports.

 

BOOM!




*mic drop*

 

I want one really badly, but they don’t make them for 05-11 sadly. I say go for it, they look good and serve a good purpose

 

No issues with the video quality after the splice job?
I am not a huge fan of where the OEM backup camera wound up on my rear swingout. Just not all that good for much.

Truck looks fantastic BTW