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This is the antenna and basically what you're intending for mount? It's called a 5/8λ and that means it would be a good idea to have a counterpoise. Even with an antenna such as a 1/2λ (which is usually referred to as ground plane independent in marketing) having the mount grounded is still...

A matter of perspective to be sure. I mostly felt right at home operating and working on my Tacoma coming straight from a truck 17 years older. It's not 1-for-1 of course but I can follow the path from then to now. Things generally work the same and I haven't had to buy a ton of new tools so...

I don't think that's completely true. Toyota (and Honda, maybe to some extent Nissan) made their name at a time when people thought 100,000 miles was ancient for a car. Some of it was trading them in but mostly they didn't last that long. Fast forward and now 100K is usually just a...

This has not been my experience going from a 1991 Truck (Hilux) to a 2008 Tacoma. Is it better than Ford (or anyone else)? I dunno, perhaps. But I owned the old truck from 2000 to 2015 (I took it from about 100K to 287K ). It was affected by one issue that wasn't my fault, the steering relay...

The intention was to keep the overall vehicle height low. It's the mechanical evolution behind the reason most 4WD vehicles have offset front diffs in the first place and makes each wheel completely independent. Regular IFS just decouples the suspension side-to-side but not the front drive.

You don't have to activate the cellular part of a tablet or phone. It's that the GPS functionality is integrated in the cell radio chipset in an iPad. Android tablets usually (maybe all) and all phones have a GPS chipset regardless of their WiFi and cellular configuration. If you have no SIM...

So your reasoning is just to find the most involve thing then or do you have some reason for considering the TAK-4?

Why do you want IFS? A lot of us with stock IFS want the time and budget to take a torch to it for a solid axle swap! But as a practical matter a live front axle would seem like it would be much less pain to retrofit.

If it's AAA the automobile club we're talking about they stipulate that "When a passenger car battery is used in a commercial application truck over one ton, marine service, recreational vehicle, etc. and is defective in material or workmanship and not merely discharged, it will be replaced free...

Why are you over complicating this and not just using the GPS in the tablet?

When I had an Odyssey die in spring about 2 years ago I bought the cheapest 12-month warranty Walmart battery I could find in the size just to keep my battery system intact for camping season. It was I think about $45, made in Spain. It ran my Engel for a few months while the warranty...

A couple of things that might be of note. Those pictures aren't recent. If the green grass in the one wasn't a tip, we have snow still lingering on the ground (I'm in GJ) and certainly would up in the Colorado National Monument where some of those shots were taken. Also, it's got a Colorado...

Lately I've been mailing my film to The Slider Printer/Denver Digital. http://www.theslideprinter.com/services/e6-slide-developing/ When we still lived in south Denver I used to have Englewood Camera do my E6 and C41. Bryce is the owner, he and I rode cyclocross together. Most of the cameras...

Radio Shack in the late 90s, early 2000s transitioned from an electronics supplier to a cell phone supplier. It was shortsighted. They lost their core and weren't going to attract new in a competitive market. Had they stayed true, perhaps down sized and focused on bringing back ham/GMRS into...

Amazon and eBay are options but "best" is tough because you have to be watch the source and supplier for counterfeits. With PowerPoles it's probably not a huge problem to figure out but I'm sure they do exist. Powerwerx I think has store fronts on the Amazon and eBay and I bet you find the...

Phoenix has a Ham Radio Outlet. They might stock some PP15/30/45 terminals and red and black housings. Maybe bagged by Powerwerx. https://www.hamradio.com/locations.cfm?storeid=6 The problem is with the demise of Radio Shack there's really not much consumer outlet for electrical...

It does sound like it's working as expected. With the 7610 the only thing you can really watch is that you have a solid connection to your ground bus and that it's a good bus across both sides. The thing that concerns me is when you say the old one was running hot. If you start to develop a...

Are you forcing the ACR (a model number may be helpful to verify operation) to combine or waiting for it to do so automatically? You are absolutely sure the solenoid has pulled in and latched? If it's an ML-ACR (7622) it will latch and unlatch as follows: Combine at 30 sec with 13.5V or...

Use good sharp cutters and don't let it fray, it'll be fine. I only use the stuff on my truck for ground straps. For wire protection I use decent quality split loom to bundle wires and if I have heavy cables going over a sharp edge I have sort of a @LandCruiserPhil approach and use old garden...

Yes, so far. I'd certainly keep them on the consideration list again at this point. Haven't had any issues on trails or anything. For more road oriented use they do still ride a little better and quieter than the KO2s did. I'm about 9,000 miles on them now, so not really a good long term...