Robinson Fuso rides again - prep for Spring 2015
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unkamonkey
Explorer
Convex mirrors work well. Some friends had a property up in the hills and unfortunatly the driveway was at something like a 45 deg to the main road. Cant see anything out of the window or mirror so set the Ebrake and halfway crawl over to the pass side to see whats going on. One time I looked out and a driver was stopped to allow me to get on the road. I think they had a motorhome and have played this game as well,
pugslyyy
Expedition Vehicle Engineer Guy
I got my blind spot camera working today (I think) and everything cabled in. I found that if you take the storage compartment over the cupholders out there are some pretty good crevasses for stuffing things - so I jammed a lot of wiring up in there, along with the 12V to 5 V converters that most devices seem to have built into their cigarette lighter plugs these days.
If you ever get a chance to check out my rig, one of the mods that has worked out very well for me in the cab is the piece of aluminum square tube about 3 inches above the dash. It makes a great place to mount devices without drilling holes in the dash or resorting to double sided tape. I have mounts for my GPS, inReach, iPad, TPMS, and forward camera all bound to it.
If you ever get a chance to check out my rig, one of the mods that has worked out very well for me in the cab is the piece of aluminum square tube about 3 inches above the dash. It makes a great place to mount devices without drilling holes in the dash or resorting to double sided tape. I have mounts for my GPS, inReach, iPad, TPMS, and forward camera all bound to it.
SkiFreak
Crazy Person
How/where did you mount your mounting bar?
pugslyyy
Expedition Vehicle Engineer Guy
I used the lower mounting bolt of the A pillar hand grips.
Aussie Iron
Explorer
pugslyyy
Expedition Vehicle Engineer Guy
Blind Spot Camera
Here's what my dash looks like.
If you take out this
You can pop off this little cover at the windshield and feed all kinds of wires down there. All the power converters for my devices are now inside the dash.
This is how I attach the square tube to the truck.
And this is the blind spot camera installed.
Here's what my dash looks like.
If you take out this
You can pop off this little cover at the windshield and feed all kinds of wires down there. All the power converters for my devices are now inside the dash.
This is how I attach the square tube to the truck.
And this is the blind spot camera installed.
pugslyyy
Expedition Vehicle Engineer Guy
Holy cow, man, how do you see the road with all that stuff in front of you??
I'm instrument rated, why would I need to see outside the cockpit?
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SkiFreak
Crazy Person
Well, you have added all that stuff to the inside of your cab, now I guess it's time to bling up the outside.
pugslyyy
Expedition Vehicle Engineer Guy
Well, you have added all that stuff to the inside of your cab, now I guess it's time to bling up the outside.
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Nah, more into this look.
pugslyyy
Expedition Vehicle Engineer Guy
Don't forget to post pictures after you have done the transformation...
I may have to wait until Central America to find someone qualified to do such a paint job.