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Since CB radios are still very prevalent in the offroad community, I decided to up my game from a handheld and get something small and compact that would work like the big units. In comes the uniden cmx760.
Since I have the platform in the back now. I decided to mount it on the underside. The perks of this model are that all the controls are in the speaker/mic part. So the box part doesnt really need to be accessible. It's nice and hidden. For when it's not in use, which beats the big box CBs imo.

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This past weekend went down to windrock ORP in Tennessee with The Hummer Club Inc. Had 3 H1's, 3 H2's, and 7 H3's. Ran a wide variety of trails over the 2 days. Only carnage was a CV shaft and an oil line that came loose and was luckily caught before the engine burned up.



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Also crossed over 36k miles on the way home. Almost had a shattered rear window due to a falling tree.

Let me know next time you go to Windrock. I am in Alabama and would love to go.


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Shoutout to acer4lo for the edit!

[video=youtube;7w6huG8MMgA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w6huG8MMgA[/video]

cgalpha08 said:

Shoutout to acer4lo for the edit!

[video=youtube;7w6huG8MMgA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w6huG8MMgA[/video]

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Looked like a great time!

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Shoutout to acer4lo for the edit!

[video=youtube;7w6huG8MMgA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w6huG8MMgA[/video]

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Hopefully get to see the other footage soon. Are you going to Uwharrie in a few weeks?


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MilamJR said:

Hopefully get to see the other footage soon. Are you going to Uwharrie in a few weeks?

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Sadly no, currently trying to hash out wedding details amidst this pandemic geopolitical weirdness ha (p.s. its not fun)

I'm in MOAB prep for now saving the $ and getting things ready for that, probably won't do any wheeling before that.

cgalpha08 said:

Sadly no, currently trying to hash out wedding details amidst this pandemic geopolitical weirdness ha (p.s. its not fun)

I'm in MOAB prep for now saving the $ and getting things ready for that, probably won't do any wheeling before that.

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Went on the Uhwarrie trip today and had the brake and ABS lights come on mid morning. After that my transfer case would not shift so I was stuck in highway mode. Luckily we were going down hill and gravity bailed me out.
Hate it when your equipment lets you down and it impacts the other people on the trip.


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MilamJR said:

Went on the Uhwarrie trip today and had the brake and ABS lights come on mid morning. After that my transfer case would not shift so I was stuck in highway mode. Luckily we were going down hill and gravity bailed me out.

Hate it when your equipment lets you down and it impacts the other people on the trip.

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I saw some of the photos on facebook, looked like a good time! Did you figure out the issue?

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Here is what that washout looked like from another angle.
And one more shot of a H1.

Can’t really see how steep it was in the pictures.


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cgalpha08 said:

I saw some of the photos on facebook, looked like a good time! Did you figure out the issue?

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No. We had to take the encoder motor off to shift the transfer case into neutral so I could pull it home behind my motorhome. Might be a wheel speed sensor.


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Been working on installing some rock lights, I see them as practical and flashy lol never know when the additional light will be handy on the trail, especially for repairs. I went with the KC cyclone 6 light kit. Comes with everything you need, plug and play really.
https://www.kchilites.com/cyclone-led-6-light-universal-rock-light-kit.html

I'm happy with the placement of the rear wheel well and mid frame lights but the front wheel well ones are off center more than I'd like. Largely due to where I had to mount them due to where the body came in relation to the wheel well liner. They are super bright.




To run the wires into the cab I had 3 options, drill a hole, poke through an existing boot, or splice into the factory auxiliary wires that are there.
I had tried to poke through the big boot that is there but decided to not push it too aggressively for fear or hitting the factory harness, and i chose to not use the wires that were present as i didn't want to cut/splice/solder the harness that came with the lights.

I opted to drill a hole and install the daystar firewall boot. (https://www.daystarsuspensionparts.com/daystar-firewall-boots.asp)
This way I can easily add more wires as needed. The firewall in that small square that's pictured below is only 1 wall thickness, about 1/8 inch thick.
For those wondering I used a step drill bit to get to 1.25" then a Dremel to smooth out the edges and some touch up paint to cover the bare metal.
I still want/need to run some silicone around the edge of the boot in the engine bay out of caution.



Obviously I did a bad job centering the drill bit, but it worked out.






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Nice upgrade.


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Yep, these suckers are bright!

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So I've been trying to figure out a good place to mount my CB mic, which in my case also contains all of the controls. I didnt want to drill or mount with an adhesive something to the dash. So then I was thinking of something to mount to the daystar panel, as in just screwing something to it. All of that led me to this:

https://expeditionessentials.com/co...ended-arm-cb-mic-handheld-radio-mount-package

I also discovered something called the ram tough track:
https://www.rammount.com/product-lines/tough-track

So then I thought, hmm what if I mount one of them to the daystar and so I did.
I went with the end loading composite as it would give me the most track space and given the short length of track I could mount.

It mounts with 4 #8 machine screws. Which 2 of them I used oversized washers to help distribute the load on the plastic. The other 2 I stacked a #10 and #8 since I couldnt fit the oversized washer in there.






I can mount 3, maybe 4 balls on the track. Right now I have a mount for the CB, phone mount, and I'll be adding one for a gopro.

All of this also helped me avoid making a permanent mod to the actual dash itself.




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I did something similar with the Series 55 rail mount from 67 Designs

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A little late, but I just saw your Windrock posts. Pretty cool place, isn't it?

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A little late, but I just saw your Windrock posts. Pretty cool place, isn't it?

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Its amazing down there!

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I've been getting the H3 ready for Moab.
Some of the major things as of late, hardwired the CB radio to the battery, rushed through the previous install so it was just plugged into a cig outlet.

Also had the steering box rebuilt by redhead steering. Night and day difference. Sector shaft was replaced as well due to it being twisted. I also replaced the high and low pressure power steering lines, as the old ones had some wear on them. I covered the 2 new lines in nylon wear guard to hopefully prevent some of this in the future.



I also added a 1/4 inch plate to the outboard side of the frame to put the steering box every so slightly further away from the power steering reservoir, clearances are much better now. You can kinda see in the picture just how close the return line is to the pump itself.



I also in my own stupidity broke the power steering reservoir nipple. Sadly that part is no longer made, so I had to buy the pump and reservoir combo. I didn't want to bother pulling the pump so I just installed the new reservoir, and on the bright side I guess I mow have a spare pump. Fair warning, it's not easy installing the reservoir onto the pump whole its still on the engine, tiny hands would have made this a lot easier.




Only major thing that is left is to replace the leaf spring bushings with the poly siberian ones.

Also picked up a pro eagle jack, 3ton "kratos". I'm ditching the Hi-lift.



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I've been getting the H3 ready for Moab.


I also added a 1/4 inch plate to the outboard side of the frame to put the steering box every so slightly further away from the power steering reservoir, clearances are much better now. You can kinda see in the picture just how close the return line is to the pump itself.

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Did this impact your steering wheel angle at center or alignment at all. I have 1/8" clearance at best. So far so good but I am worried what will happen at full frame flex offroad. I was tracing up a spacer like you mentioned earlier today but started to think about alignment.

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jimmy p said:

Did this impact your steering wheel angle at center or alignment at all. I have 1/8" clearance at best. So far so good but I am worried what will happen at full frame flex offroad. I was tracing up a spacer like you mentioned earlier today but started to think about alignment.

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Yes it did change it some. When I got it all back together before I adjusted anything the wheel was turned to the left some to keep the wheels straight. All i did was adjust the drag link to center the wheel and all seemed well. I did make sure to the best of my capability that the box was centered internally and the wheel centered when I first mounted it and connected the steering shaft to the input shaft. The pitman arm isn't technically aligned with the center of the box. With the box centered the pitman is angled slightly to the right (passenger).

When I got it all back together I had 2 options. Leave pitman as is and shorten the drag link to center the steering wheel, or lengthen the drag link and reposition the pitman on the sector shaft.

I went for the first option as it was, well, easier. The box is still centered internally when I drive straight and the drag and pitman arm angles are good.

Not sure if that makes sense, I can try and explain In greater detail if needed.

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Yes it did change it some. When I got it all back together before I adjusted anything the wheel was turned to the left some to keep the wheels straight. All i did was adjust the drag link to center the wheel and all seemed well. I did make sure to the best of my capability that the box was centered internally and the wheel centered when I first mounted it and connected the steering shaft to the input shaft. The pitman arm isn't technically aligned with the center of the box. With the box centered the pitman is angled slightly to the right (passenger).

When I got it all back together I had 2 options. Leave pitman as is and shorten the drag link to center the steering wheel, or lengthen the drag link and reposition the pitman on the sector shaft.

I went for the first option as it was, well, easier. The box is still centered internally when I drive straight and the drag and pitman arm angles are good.

Not sure if that makes sense, I can try and explain In greater detail if needed.

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I got it, thanks for the confirmation!

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I also installed an odyssey extreme 34/78 battery
This one in particular: https://www.summitracing.com/parts/ODY-3478PC1500DT

Top part of the factory box becomes irrelevant at this point. I also had to trim part of the bottom to get this to fully seat. I dida similar mod on my 08 alpha years ago with a diffenrt AGM battery.

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Added 2 more rock lights, mounted them to the skid plate tabs on the thorparts front bumper, since they are of no use to me. Prior to this the front wasn't illuminated very well underneath, so this solves that
That makes 8 total underneath the H3.


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