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I just got the interior back in and finished (so i thought) and then decieded to put a roof console in, Just missed a nice one out of a cherrokee and the
ready made ones from ARB etc that AndyLaLa kindly gave me the link too
are well out of my price range so i made one, First thing is what to fix it to?
I'd just put the headliner back and could'nt remember if there was a support
crossmember between the front and the centre (with the int light fixed to it )
So off with all the front trim and managed to get the liner down at the front enough to see and there is'nt, So i had this peice if alloy bar knocking about for ages, it's about 60mm x 6mm and long enough, I cut it to lenght and drilled the front for a bolt fixing at the front into a captive nut that was behind the int mirror assembly, The other end (back) just james in on top of the centre cross member (with some insulating tape round it) A big head is fixed at the rear end to take the arse end of the console and its quite sturdy,
Haveing measured up i made the console out of ply and pine and deceided to make it so it hinged at the front and is able to be unbolted and lowered quite easyly I used a large steel hinge and drilled it to fix to two of the captive nuts
that the mirror and light fitted to as you can see from the pics the whole thing is held up by this hinge and a nut (s/s dome) at the rear and a screw either side at the front,
Once made i covered it with black carpet (left over from the floor)
I was gonna fix the CB horizontally underneath with the int mirror/lights under that but it was far too low so i deceided to fix the CB at an angle with the mirror assbly fixed just forward of it and blocked down a bit, Also fitted some fuse holders in it for the verious stuff,
I worked out what i wanted to put in this console before i started and so far it's got the multichanger, CB radio, the beat sensor thingy, two KA clocks
(yep i got another one) and the two little "map lights" i made earlier and there's plenty of space left for other stuff, I had to pull the multichanger cables out from the back (where it used to be) and run em up the O/S front pillar which was a sod, I still gotta do the same on the other side when i get a
cable and mast for the CB,
Also made these earlier to go under the seats and work off the beat sensor,
It's a neat piece of gear and very sensitive, makes the speaker leds and these flash nicely and makes em flash if you cough, tap or fart as i found out, You can have em on flash, off, or on permantly and you have a sensitivity controll, Just a little bull $hit, I know i need to get out more!!!
Thats it for now
ready made ones from ARB etc that AndyLaLa kindly gave me the link too
are well out of my price range so i made one, First thing is what to fix it to?
I'd just put the headliner back and could'nt remember if there was a support
crossmember between the front and the centre (with the int light fixed to it )
So off with all the front trim and managed to get the liner down at the front enough to see and there is'nt, So i had this peice if alloy bar knocking about for ages, it's about 60mm x 6mm and long enough, I cut it to lenght and drilled the front for a bolt fixing at the front into a captive nut that was behind the int mirror assembly, The other end (back) just james in on top of the centre cross member (with some insulating tape round it) A big head is fixed at the rear end to take the arse end of the console and its quite sturdy,
Haveing measured up i made the console out of ply and pine and deceided to make it so it hinged at the front and is able to be unbolted and lowered quite easyly I used a large steel hinge and drilled it to fix to two of the captive nuts
that the mirror and light fitted to as you can see from the pics the whole thing is held up by this hinge and a nut (s/s dome) at the rear and a screw either side at the front,
Once made i covered it with black carpet (left over from the floor)
I was gonna fix the CB horizontally underneath with the int mirror/lights under that but it was far too low so i deceided to fix the CB at an angle with the mirror assbly fixed just forward of it and blocked down a bit, Also fitted some fuse holders in it for the verious stuff,
I worked out what i wanted to put in this console before i started and so far it's got the multichanger, CB radio, the beat sensor thingy, two KA clocks
(yep i got another one) and the two little "map lights" i made earlier and there's plenty of space left for other stuff, I had to pull the multichanger cables out from the back (where it used to be) and run em up the O/S front pillar which was a sod, I still gotta do the same on the other side when i get a
cable and mast for the CB,
Also made these earlier to go under the seats and work off the beat sensor,
It's a neat piece of gear and very sensitive, makes the speaker leds and these flash nicely and makes em flash if you cough, tap or fart as i found out, You can have em on flash, off, or on permantly and you have a sensitivity controll, Just a little bull $hit, I know i need to get out more!!!
Thats it for now
Nice one. I've fitted my C.B in front of the gear lever
The sunroof is a handy place to place my solar panel though, between the glass and the plastic sliding cover. Oh, and I've re-fitted the sunroof switch to my roof consol / radio housing now.
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