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13 hours ago, KD5FPV said:

Same here.  If you do it before I get mine done take a pic or two of the hole you find. 

Found one! Don't know where there are drains in the other cab layouts, but my single cab has one right at the back corner. I drilled a ¼" hole in the plug for the cable to run through, and then gave it a thick dose of black rtv to seal it up good.

 

Thanks for the inspiration to finally make my installation a little cleaner lol.

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The best solution I could think of without sacrificing the limited single cab storage or drilling holes was to hang the radio on the center child seat anchor using one of those 3M Command hooks. My on

KD5FPV
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Same here.  If you do it before I get mine done take a pic or two of the hole you find. 

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The crew cabs do, they are under the rear passenger's left foot...big oval plug. Steve Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk

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I like it!!! Don't see why my crew cab won't be the same. I can't wait to get mine fully finished!

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I like it!!! Don't see why my crew cab won't be the same. I can't wait to get mine fully finished!

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And mines a double cab I'll check it out soon. 

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Is there much radio traffic on your  " CB Radio's" these days . 

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On 2/27/2018 at 8:58 PM, rocnrol said:

 

Pretty much every truck I've owned has had a CB. But these trucks with a full console make it tough to mount one nice. I think I like it like this, with the mike hanger just below the seat heater switch emoji6.png306efe5df92052c36596c04e44206943.jpg395ce815dc07e36146bc554122985a46.jpg

 

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How does the speaker sound where it is?  is it muffled?  How did you get the cup holders to slide forward like that?

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How does the speaker sound where it is?  is it muffled?  How did you get the cup holders to slide forward like that?
Tooch,

It isn't fully hooked up yet, so I can't say how it sounds yet. I do have an external cb speaker in case. As for the cup holders, just grab it and give it a good pull up. They're held in place by some spring loaded balls. You'll be surprised to find another huge space underneath it, and probably a bunch of stuff you lost [emoji6]

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And mines a double cab I'll check it out soon. 
The crew cabs do, they are under the rear passenger's left foot...big oval plug.

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1 hour ago, rocnrol said:

 As for the cup holders, just grab it and give it a good pull up. They're held in place by some spring loaded balls. You'll be surprised to find another huge space underneath it, and probably a bunch of stuff you lost emoji6.png
 

Has anyone been able to move the cupholders on a '16 or newer?

 

AFAIK  '15 was the last year they were moveable.

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Here's what I've picked as my antenna location 0bf238e3cd54839c75cf0db9650c6afb.jpg63dac96198870c816e9f41ebda99c6fe.jpg4ef871026193e1984a38d0eba5837d4c.jpg

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Here's what I've picked as my antenna location 0bf238e3cd54839c75cf0db9650c6afb.jpg63dac96198870c816e9f41ebda99c6fe.jpg4ef871026193e1984a38d0eba5837d4c.jpg

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Should give you a good counterpoise as long as the antenna is grounded to the bar well (assuming the bar is steel). It will use that bar as a counterpoise...

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I did a Wilson 5000 mounted center of the roof of my crew cab (hole drilled, not a magnet mount). I'm running a General HP40W barefoot, the antenna gives me a nearly flat SWR of 1:1 on all 40 channels.

I ran a 102 inch whip on the last truck, and over 850 watts...May not even put a radio in the next truck, there is very little (quality) traffic to speak of anymore...

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Sdeeter,

You definitely seem to have a grip on setting these things up!! Lol. I agree on the grounding of the bar, I was going to check that for sure. I've always had someone else tune my antenna and radio.

I agree on the actual use ability of a CB..... To be quite honest, my primary drive is "the look" use is secondary [emoji12]

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I put my little cb in the cubby where the cd player would be on GMT400s,fits well.Not a lot of range but works well when off roading with other trucks.Magnetic antenna with cable going down the rear door jamb behind the rubber seal.

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It was a pretty nice weekend here, so I was able to get this job done. I might do something different with how the antenna gets to the radio, and how the power cord gets to the power port.

It took some messing around with the mounting stud to get it grounded right, and then some tuning with the antenna, but, using the SRW built in tuner, I got it pretty close to 1.5 on both channel 1 and 40, the picture shows where it is on 19.

I fished the cable in through the cab vent on the back wall, then fed the cable under the door kick panel. ecc60b1846bca18d130d62d7d91d99da.jpgc75e1a933d298efb5d8e53ae2f5a3c3b.jpgd00ef768cb45352db61459cf1e8906fe.jpge7bcb8376723650f35356537ad0c86e1.jpg99e6cf8a9559f2106f12d3c3559ae55e.jpg75279051480f78a76b8ce25367336b27.jpg439e91793eeb199426b88dfd5f7e90d6.jpg95e1a64792306b54d078f106706200de.jpg

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