What Did You Do To Your 2ND GEN RAM Today?
02-23-2014, 10:01 AM
Champion
My bad, I didn't state it, but this is our local OHV park. Play area with hills, dirt, obstacles, etc. When we get some good rain, this spot becomes the mud contest place. CA being the liability state it is, then state parks trucks are not allowed to perform any recovery. The state employee was there to lend his strap and thanked me for helping, while also grudgingly wanted to do the recovery.
Pics of the park mixed with some other random pics:
http://s150.photobucket.com/user/cli...ry/PrairieCity
Pics of the park mixed with some other random pics:
http://s150.photobucket.com/user/cli...ry/PrairieCity
02-23-2014, 10:39 AM
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02-23-2014, 02:51 PM
replaced the bad 4-channel RCA cables in my truck.
pulled the trim off the drivers side, and unbolted the drivers side seat, stuck a wood block under the side next to the door and pulled on the seat to get the center leg high enough to get the big clump of wire ends through the carpet as the RCAs run down the center of my truck.
used the old cables to pull the new ones through by taping the ends together.
wasn't hard to pull through once the seat leg was up out of the way
OMG sounds so much better now that the stupid left front channel isn't cutting in and out (reason I replaced the old cables)
and now that I learned a little trick from the interwebs, no more rca filters either, and alternator noise is 100% gone!
the trick: take a small length of wire and attach one end to the body of your deck, and the other end to the ground side of 1 of the rca cables to ground out the RCA cables. works 10x better than a ground loop isolator aka: "rca filter"
generally not required to do unless you have a navigation deck like I do where the RCA's don't hook into the body of the deck but instead have a harness with several rca cables coming out of it, making them not grounded to the deck body like rca's physically touching the back of the deck.
pulled the trim off the drivers side, and unbolted the drivers side seat, stuck a wood block under the side next to the door and pulled on the seat to get the center leg high enough to get the big clump of wire ends through the carpet as the RCAs run down the center of my truck.
used the old cables to pull the new ones through by taping the ends together.
wasn't hard to pull through once the seat leg was up out of the way
OMG sounds so much better now that the stupid left front channel isn't cutting in and out (reason I replaced the old cables)
and now that I learned a little trick from the interwebs, no more rca filters either, and alternator noise is 100% gone!
the trick: take a small length of wire and attach one end to the body of your deck, and the other end to the ground side of 1 of the rca cables to ground out the RCA cables. works 10x better than a ground loop isolator aka: "rca filter"
generally not required to do unless you have a navigation deck like I do where the RCA's don't hook into the body of the deck but instead have a harness with several rca cables coming out of it, making them not grounded to the deck body like rca's physically touching the back of the deck.
02-24-2014, 05:21 PM
Champion
02-26-2014, 12:22 AM
Veteran
02-26-2014, 12:00 PM
ordered a back up camera for the truck.
will plug right into my navigation deck
make it easier to hook up a trailer, and to back into parking spots and know exactly where my hitch is in relation to the bumper of the car behind me...
the car behind me tends to disappear and all I can see is the top of their windshield over the tailgate.
camera is a license plate mount
will plug right into my navigation deck
make it easier to hook up a trailer, and to back into parking spots and know exactly where my hitch is in relation to the bumper of the car behind me...
the car behind me tends to disappear and all I can see is the top of their windshield over the tailgate.
camera is a license plate mount
