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Yaesu FT-8900r dash mounted. Just used some basic bracketry from home depot, one of these days I'll take it apart and paint it black but it's been this way a few years now. Drilled a hole to run the wiring down behind the radio. Do this with the trim removed, a friend learned the hard...

Gotta have tints. She made friends.

Exterior shots of the Diamonback bed cover when it went on. This is by far the best cover I've owned. On my previous ram I had a full cab height topper, and then an electric roll cover. This truck came when I bought it with a manual roll cover (sized for the short bed) with a tooldbox in...

Some of the storage in the lid of the bed cover. This is all made from 1/4" and 3/16" shock cord and then various hardware like one would see on a kayak actually. Which cord used for each item depends on weight, size, shape, etc. I like the J hooks for looping the end over when pulled as it...

Here she was the day I picked her up at the dealer. More pictures to follow, they are all too big for upload currently.

Picked up a new to me 2014 Ram 2500, 4x4, long bed, 4 door, rear air suspension, Cummins beast in Longhorn trim. Got her in 2016 and sold my 2003 1500 hemi, 4x4, 4 door, long bed, SLT trim. Been doing a bit of this and that for a few years on it and decided I should start posting about it. I...

Yeah I need most of a whole sheet. Designing some in bed storage for my pickup so it needs to be 8ft long and then cut 2 pieces about 20" wide that will be vertical next to each wheel well. Those will contain all my various tools and such on the sides of the bed and leave the whole center wide...

Can you recommend a good source for the HDPE sheet that doesn't completely kill you on shipping, or did you find a local source in which case I'm on my won finding one out here in NY? Been following your build for quite a while and stealing ideas I can reuse in other vehicles.

That is SARGE green. It's a new color, they dumped mojito and added that.

The other issue is cables made of CCA (copper clad aluminum) which would need to be a few sizes bigger to match up to their straight copper counterparts.

It's true the diamondback leaves the center panel in place, but it can be removed in about 2 mintues. I've had a lot of different bed cover options and it is by far the best.

It was before trucks nutz were a thing, I think those who install truck nutz at the back of the truck should have to finish the job and strap a large dildo to the front.

I had an air raid style siren in a previous vehicle when I was much younger, it was a LOT of fun.

I'll be honest, unless you are involved with sanctioned events and pre-existing licensing for frequency usage stay away form the stuff from rugged unless you absolutely need the in vehicle intercom function. First of all waht radio gear are th people you wheel with running, if they are all on...

Yes that radio needs a ham license.

For your "coax splitter" I hope you are planning to use a coax switch to choose between the 2 antennas, a splitter would divide the power between them always and likely give significant SWR issues. Not sure what type of amplifier you are using but I'd humbly suggest you set up as follows...

Justin K2ZMB I also am on GMRS WQWM880, and have a commercial license for some itinerant frequencies pending. Long Island NY

You should do a build thread when you do yours too.

The dealer is right, it can't be added after the fact with the wiring that exists in the truck. This guy makes an add-on harness that makes it work.

Actually the great thing is if you get one of the conversion harnesses that lets you add a bed mounted 7 way plug for a 5th wheel setup it is designed to "T" between the factory harness and the factory 7 way plug, so even if you had such a setup already you could add a second one even and just...