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It is higher than stock, about 1.5" (no additional cranked in lift, its all higher spring rate) in front and 2" in back. But realize at this point there's some miles (about 7 years old) on the suspension so was also fully settled.

You mean, the really old school Broncos or the 1980+ twin traction beam IFS old(ish) 3rd gen and up ones?

One of reasons people want manuals is they're easier to tow behind their motorhomes.

Have you ever aligned those Zastone things and checked their stability and accuracy?

Yeah, an HT1250, there's no comparison in quality, handhelds especially, compared to the toy radios they sell. They'll be right on frequency and bandwidth and stay in alignment. I don't know what radios dreadlocks is using but my XPRs and VXDs are anything but crappy bricks. They're a little...

The first time is always a big step in a ham's life. I mean holes in the roof, minds out of the gutter you pervs. It is the best for performance and I think actually one of the least likely to cause new damage. Mag mounts almost always leave little swirls, for example. If you ever want to...

There is no magic length of coax. Is 15 feet long enough to reach the radio?

Mods might add no value, a little, a lot or even reduce the price. It depends on the desirability and quality of what's done. Some things like bumpers or skid plates, I figure if they do increase the value more than my time spent to put back on stock stuff then it's a fair offer. That would...

This is the stance of 25mm torsion bars and OME standard duty leaf springs (3 main + 3 progressively thicker overloads) with longer than stock shackles. It's not excessively high and would be at last an inch lower with stock length shackles.

The SSID you append to your call sign is up to you. There's a few commonly understood ones (recommendations really) but there's no hard-fast FCC rule or anything. A call sign with no SSID or -1 generally means a home station, -9 means a mobile station, -7 often indicates a message capable...

As a general rule, yes it's best if you disconnect the solar panel before disconnecting the battery and going the other way connect the battery before the panel. Controllers can be damaged asking them to regulate a panel with no load (battery). It's not necessarily something that will fail...

With an TM-D710 running fully capable (which fundamentally just means message capable) boils down to meaning that when a message comes into the radio you actually read it and respond. The D710 and FTM-350 & FTM-400 have all the functionality right there in the radio. Don't need anything more...

I'd only put in GL4 in a W5x personally. I like MT90 but if the Mobil1 is GL4 that's what I'd use. FWIW, I'm uncertain about how bad GL5 really is to yellow metals in transmissions made in the past decade or so. My manual on an RA60 calls for GL4 or GL5 so I have to assume Toyota knew the...

Ham radio is only as good as the effort you put into to make it. I run with APRS on and have a couple of times been called because I happened to be close to another ham who needed something. The position beacons are fundamentally just a way to let other hams around you know you're out there...

Are you talking about APRS? If so then yeah, it's a full packet implementation and messages are one aspect. The app on your phone is client software, which also exists for just about every OS there is. All of this is like the olden days before GUIs and graphic web, like BBS terminals, text...

As far as I know you can do APRS on GMRS, that's what it would be good for. I also think some FRS and GMRS radios do exchange GPS data with a key press already. Not quite a full stand-alone packet radio but like a Mic-E APRS position. That was originally designed to stuff a small packet on...

Digital data being bursts, like packet radio, as opposed to digitally encoded voice. So APRS is OK but DMR/P25/Fusion/D-Star is not. The one second TX limit is plenty sufficient for reasonably sized packets with a modem that's configured correctly. This is a problem to some extent on amateur...

Per the 2017 updates a GMRS handheld can be 0.5W or 5W depending upon which channels you are using and GMRS HTs must have a fixed antenna. FRS radios also must have fixed antennas and will be limited to either 0.5W or 2W depending on channel. §95.567 FRS transmit power. Each FRS transmitter...

Mechanics sometimes get sensitive about having you in the shop watching and certainly I think aren't for the most part going to want to let you help. It'll slow them down when getting jobs in and out keeps the lights on. Maybe offer to pay over book rate to have them help you do it after...

It seems to me the core concept is there is no one single right or wrong approach. Almost all the stuff has a time and place where it becomes appropriate. Your particular situation will dictate this. If you happen be familiar with perhaps bicycling or motorcycling the comparison I would make...