overhead console
- Thread starter southpier
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rayra
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I added a dual port USB to the back side (vehicle front facing) of my Sub's factory overhead console, splicing into the courtesy light power line. Provides power for my suction mounted dash cam and my iphone holder. Works great. And since the courtesy power cuts 10? mins after the vehicle is shut off / locked, I don't have to worry about the parasitic load of the USB inverter runnign all the time. Although if I ran constant hot power there I could have the dash cam running all the time. Maybe that's another new circuit I have to add to my Aux battery / rooftop solar setup.
https://www.expeditionportal.com/fo...-ports-switches-on-my-gmt800-suburban.159915/
On the square body GM thing, old time catalog car part / oddball invention company JC Whitney long offered a high tray which attached at the top of the windshield using the sun visor mounts. The sun visors then in turn bolted to the bottom of the tray. Gave a tall full width shelf that was big enough to mount a CB radio in and store a ton of stuff. It's an idea that could be adapted to just about any vehicle.
You'd want to use a material that is sturdy enough but won't break your skull in a head-on collision. Foamcore, some balsa wood. Trim the edge with some of that u-shaped pinch-weld trim stuff or foam that goes around the lip of your vehicle's door openings.
https://www.expeditionportal.com/fo...-ports-switches-on-my-gmt800-suburban.159915/
On the square body GM thing, old time catalog car part / oddball invention company JC Whitney long offered a high tray which attached at the top of the windshield using the sun visor mounts. The sun visors then in turn bolted to the bottom of the tray. Gave a tall full width shelf that was big enough to mount a CB radio in and store a ton of stuff. It's an idea that could be adapted to just about any vehicle.
You'd want to use a material that is sturdy enough but won't break your skull in a head-on collision. Foamcore, some balsa wood. Trim the edge with some of that u-shaped pinch-weld trim stuff or foam that goes around the lip of your vehicle's door openings.
Where did you get the panels to do that or do you make this yourself?Every vehicle is different. Some just beg for overhead storage.
I re-purposed the worthless "sunglass holders" for switch panels in the overhead on my build.
Nothing more will be put up there though. Simply isnt the space, and I much prefer to have things safely stowed.
RAM5500 CAMPERTHING
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lol
Yes, as shown by RAM5500, the panels are nothing more than the sunglass pockets.
But they were flipped around and modified to work as I needed for the switch console.
Yes, as shown by RAM5500, the panels are nothing more than the sunglass pockets.
But they were flipped around and modified to work as I needed for the switch console.