Jeep JK 2 dr Water storage solution
More prep for the Sydney Jeep Club trip to the Cape.
My Jeep JK will have 2 occupants - Jax (My beautiful wife) and myself!
I need to carry at least 20L of reserve water for cooking and drinking etc aside from my main 20L of drinking water in the back on top of my drawers and the 2X 1.5L bottles in the front of the cab to drink on route.
I am looking for advice / comment re my plans to put 25L on the roof bars
My Plan so far is to put 3meters of 100mm pipe (+ threaded end cap) up on my roof bars with a locking tap on the back end and a manually openable valve at the top on the front (to let the air out when I fill up) I expect to get approx 25 Litres of storage.
I realise I am adding another 25+Kg's to the top of my Jeep and that when the tank is half full I will have 12+kgs of "slide Hammer" LoL
Q. Has anyone got any recommendations / cautions / advice before I fab up some brackets & weld em on?
Thanx guys in advance for any info / advice you might give!
cheers Hunty
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Tailgate - added a gas strut & some alloy knobs
Hi guyz
I was given 3 alloy knobs for my aircon control panel, and I have tried several times to install them, but damn the factory knobs are so hard to remove - I finally decided to pull them off no matter what, so I got a large adjustable pliar/vice grips and squeezed and pulled until I almost blew a valve - I finally got them off and yes they look a little worse for wear now (especially after I squeezed and chomped on them) - If you intend to pull off the factory knobs be aware you will be in for quite a fight almost as much of a fight as the gear knob!
I bought a second hand gas strut from a very esteemed member of our Club (Rob & Tania) and finally got around to installing it, it has bugged me so much when trying to get stuff out of the back to have to hold the tailgate open! - so I drilled a hole in the tailgate tapped a thread into it and voila ....... the tailgate stays open all by itself!
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Aviation / Pilot intercom system for my JK Jeep
Those of you who drive a lifted JK with muddies & soft top will know how noisy they can be at 110kph - I can barely talk to my beautiful Passenger / wife Jax and as some of you know I am heading up to the Cape tomorrow, My JK is so loud that I have to turn up the stereo to 25-30 just to hear it, which over a long drive (25-30hrs just to Cairns) will cause some serious fatigue & deafness LoL.
I wanted to add a communications system or something to my JK that would allow me to talk to the Mrs (kinda like the rally navigator com system)
I wanted to also include my CB & phone, so again with a fist full of sm@rt@$$ pills I began to dream. Heres what I came up with;
I purchased a Pilot / Aviation comms system off Ebay ($35), 2 noise cancelling Pilot headsets with Gel muffs ($105) and a 6 pin Uniden compatible CB mic plug ($4).
I began to reverse engineer the Aviation comms system and discovered that the 2 headset plugs are wired fairly straight forward, the regular size 6.5 Jack is wired conventionally ring tip sleeve = left right shield (too easy).
The slightly smaller jack plug (Mic) is wired sleeve = earth, ring = Mic hot and tip = push to talk.
I then pulled apart my Uniden CB mic plug & microphone and tried to figure out what was going on inside the mic (because my mic has call & instant buttons on it). I discovered that the 6 pin contained; Mic in, PTT, Earth, Audio out and control for the channel up down inst and call, = perfect.
I wired up the Aviation system to the Uniden 6pin plug and it all worked perfectly NOT LoL - several attempts later (OK 8) my dumb@ssnes got all the wires on the right pins!
So heres what I ended up with;
Vox operated Comms so I can talk with my wife as we drive.
Ipod input so whilst I drve I can talk with my wife and enjoy music!
Iphone integration so I can answer calls whilst I drive and talk (Vox) with my wife! and callers.
CB integration so I can talk with my wife & listen to music & listen to the CB and answer calls from my Iphone and....... talk on my CB! - & If I choose all at the same time and the person on the phone can't hear the person on the CB & vice versa - only down side is wearing the headset and the Mrs can hear my phone calls!
ps the Headsets that I bought have a 3.5 mini jack on the side so If I really wanted the mrs & I could listen to different music as we drive and still be able to talk to each other!
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