Well, I need a place to put my CB and FM transeiver for the races. After sticking it all over the cab, i found the place to put was on the roof.
Plus it was a good excuse to go build something while i wait to start my new job.

Started of with some 18 guage plate i had lying around from a prior floor patch.

made me templets out of cardboard, then cut the two sides out.



Then cut out the center section, and bent it up in the brake.


Marked out my cutouts, and drilled the corners, to make it easier to cut with the plasma.



cut outs made.



then it was just some welding to go.fully welded on the inside, so i could grind and round the corners on the outside.






Test fitted the radios.





Then painted it up in bed coat. it warped a little on the front, but you cant see it with the radio's in there.



This is where it will sit when i get it all mounted, just waiting to get a antenna for the cb before i mount it up for good.


hope ya'll like.

 

Nice looking set-up!

 

nice execution !

 

Looks sweet!

 

Nice!

 

Thanks everyone,I'm happy with the way it turned out. I'm gonna drop the headliner, and drill through the roof and seal the cable.mount the antenna to the center of the exo so I have a good ground plane and no interference. Gotta pick IP a swr meter a frys also so it can be tuned properly.

 

Looks awesome. More pics when it's all set up and ready to go please.

 

that looks real good, ill prolly try to do something like this soon. great job

 

Awesome job!

 

hey just wondering if you're planning on putting up some photos of how you ran those wires. I wouldn't mind doing a project like this, but just for a cb and possibly a storage bay type thing. gloves/glasses/ cigarettes etc.

thanks
mike

 

I will have some up in maybe a week, waiting on antenna. But basically I ran some q.D. connectors like weather pack at the radios.then run the wires down the "A" pillar, through the firewall to the power district box. Antenna wires run under headliner then exit body through water proof grommets to the roof.

 

Well done brother.... did you have to screw all the way through the thin metal on the roof to attach it? Pics?

 

Very nice and clean welds! SWEEEEETTTT!!

 

Yeah, I am a newb here. I have been wanting to make the same console myself. I have no welding equipment or experience. I have found plastic compartments. But my main concern is the roof. Can you mount it without having to drill all the way through? I need to replace the entire headliner on my Jeep anyway as I got it pretty much wrecked. That build looks great by the way!

 

I cut a piece of 3/4 marine plus to the required size,and installed some "T" but in the wood.then epoxies the hell out of it to the roof on the inside between the roof and head liner.

That way the the unit just unscrewed from the roof. It's all pretty light, and I'm not concerned about the epoxy at all. But since I have tons off holes for the exo cage.I went ahead an installed some bolts through the roof anyway. Some pics of it installed.