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Re:Gadget's 2019 hearing aid SZ5

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23 Aug 2019 14:51 #212582 by mlines
So another way would be a spare wheel mount with the aerial cable going down behind the spare wheel and through the rear door rubber. This gets it inside but still on the rear door. Either feed it into the plastic door panel or along the bottom of the door to the hinge end and then over into the car internal panels

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2003 M13 early KAP build.
3" Trailmaster lift with 1.5 Spacers on front
Customised winch bumper and roll cage
235/85R16 Maxxis Bighorns on 16" Rims, 4:1 Rocklobster, Rear ARB locker and on-board air
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23 Aug 2019 16:01 #212586 by Andy2640
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mlines wrote: So another way would be a spare wheel mount with the aerial cable going down behind the spare wheel and through the rear door rubber. This gets it inside but still on the rear door. Either feed it into the plastic door panel or along the bottom of the door to the hinge end and then over into the car internal panels

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Well slap my knee and call me shirley!! How did we miss that solution!! Ive got early stage alziemers i reckon. Look ..... i already forgot how to spell alsziiiiimmers.

But yes, that sounds great. Gonna have another butchers in a minute ...

Thanks Martin :) :) :)

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23 Aug 2019 16:06 #212587 by CC Baxter
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err, Breaker on the side?
I believe I used this phrase in 1981, yes I once had a CB -great fun!
It seems to me you need to drill the door, but don't want to drill the door.
Bear with me, If you check inside the door at the welded captive nuts you' ll see there is a bit of spare meat on them. Enough to drill and tap one of them to m12, an m12 bolt can handle a 7.5 mm drilling.
I think GeorgeC told us the bolts were m10 fine thread but I'd swap to coarse thread because there is more choice of readily available hardware.
Chase out the existing threads with 10mm drill bit then follow with 10.5 and finish with 11mm. Use an m12 coarse tap and you're good to go.
Best practice, catch all swarf as nothing rots out a door like stray bits of steel.
Drill a bolt of suitable lengh and cut its head off, you then use a flange nut on the outside with a little thread still showing. This will make it easier to seal.
If in a years time you think you've made a mistake you can just pop in a helicoil.
All a lot neater than plumbers mastic.
Chris

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23 Aug 2019 16:44 #212588 by Andy2640
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Can you come to my house and do all that for me?? :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :cheer: :cheer:

My brain just farted and died. How am i still typing!!!

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23 Aug 2019 18:06 #212592 by Gadget

CC Baxter wrote: err, Breaker on the side?
I believe I used this phrase in 1981, yes I once had a CB -great fun!
It seems to me you need to drill the door, but don't want to drill the door.
Bear with me, If you check inside the door at the welded captive nuts you' ll see there is a bit of spare meat on them. Enough to drill and tap one of them to m12, an m12 bolt can handle a 7.5 mm drilling.
I think GeorgeC told us the bolts were m10 fine thread but I'd swap to coarse thread because there is more choice of readily available hardware.
Chase out the existing threads with 10mm drill bit then follow with 10.5 and finish with 11mm. Use an m12 coarse tap and you're good to go.
Best practice, catch all swarf as nothing rots out a door like stray bits of steel.
Drill a bolt of suitable lengh and cut its head off, you then use a flange nut on the outside with a little thread still showing. This will make it easier to seal.
If in a years time you think you've made a mistake you can just pop in a helicoil.
All a lot neater than plumbers mastic.
Chris


I like that solution and could probably, just about, DIY it, maybe :silly:

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23 Aug 2019 18:58 #212595 by Keithy
On my first Jimny I mounted the aerial above the spare.....new Jimny it's mounted to the roof.







Note to self....find the roof rubber....
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24 Aug 2019 09:50 #212611 by Andy2640
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Hya Keithy,

Looks brilliant. What sort of range were you getting from the rig?

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24 Aug 2019 12:12 #212613 by Keithy
4 or 5 miles....on the mway

Only used for laning so range isn't all that important.

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24 Aug 2019 15:25 #212619 by Andy2640
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Keithy wrote: 4 or 5 miles....on the mway

Only used for laning so range isn't all that important.


LOL .... Did you ever get bored, and end up having a natter with a lorry driver ??

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24 Aug 2019 15:58 #212621 by Keithy

Andy2640 wrote: Did you ever get bored, and end up having a natter with a lorry driver ??


I never get bored....not since being a teenager have I been bored lol

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24 Aug 2019 16:03 - 24 Aug 2019 16:06 #212622 by Andy2640
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Keithy wrote:

Andy2640 wrote: Did you ever get bored, and end up having a natter with a lorry driver ??


I never get bored....not since being a teenager have I been bored lol


Hahaa ...... Lets say you were watching "Mary Berry's - Great british bakeoff". With your eye lids forced open by match sticks, how bout then?

Edit: Sorry i'm jus crackers, hahaa
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25 Aug 2019 08:34 #212645 by Andy2640
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Just had a email off GeorgeC. Remember him?

Anyways, he has suggested feeding the antenna cable from spare wheel at rear and then under the cars body.

So now we have multipul possible options.

Thoughts???

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