Only bad part about the side like is that the passengers legs are always into them, and very little space there to begin with. Had a friend with his mounted there and he hit a big rut off road and his wife's leg hit the radio and cut it very badly requiring stitches.

 

Did he sharpen the mounts to a point? holy crap.

 

I just screwed mine to the top of the dash, it's not really elegant but it's easy to reach and it only blocks my view of the hood. The overhead console would be ideal, especially if I could use the wasted space for a garage opener (whut?) which has never been used.

 

Had mine here on two jeeps. No prob opening glove box. I thought about the tunnel like posted above but didn't like it.

 

This location didn't work quite as well as I intended but it's a great option for the unit I have and my wants/needs for mounting a CB which are as follows...

*sorry for the night time pics*

1 - The CB can't be near my or my passenger's legs/knees (heard to many horror stories about knee caps and heavy impact with a CB in that area)
2 - I want it near where my hands will naturally be if possible for easy of use
3 - If I don't have to have **** dangling in my face as I'm bouncing around on the trail I'm happy (see the "mounting it above your mirror" option)

So in front of the shifter seemed like a great spot, and since my CB is a big ***** and my XJ has always been missing the ashtray/change-cup from the dash it seemed like a perfect way to fill that hole (yeah I said it) and check off all of my wants/needs for mounting my CB.







Oooooooooh Shiny!



As for my antenna I kind of put myself into a bind. See I bought a stud mount and a firestik tune-able three foot antenna, as I was intending on doing an over the fender type of deal. But as I started to mount it up there I just didn't like how it hung out away from the body and well...we have trees to deal with up here. So I started looking around for another place to mount it and I went to the rear end like most folks do.

However, I don't see the sense in mounting the antenna off to the left or right of the tail lights as that does the same exact thing of putting it in a prime location to get ripped off. So...I went about making a bracket for the rear that came down over part of the tail light...bla bla bla...that didn't work so well.

In the end I mounted it to the rear hatch, now I know what you're thinking... "hey, um dude...the rear hatch is fiber glass and you can't ground that there" and you'd be right. So I ran a ground from the battery to the rear of the mount where I put a ring terminal and a nylock nut/washer. The ground and antenna wire are ran up the factory channel through the section where the factory wiring comes out of the hatch and into the cab.





Now the other part that I'm still going to have to test is the fact that this antenna and mount are meant for a "ground plane" setup, meaning they need something to reflect off of...I didn't intend to run it like this so I didn't purchase a "no ground plane" mounting system. We'll have to see how bad the SWR meter is later.

 

NO, a very stock 40 channel CB against her bare leg a lot of force when it struck.


If you do 4 wheel often on rough trails, then you should know how much you can be banged around in a 4x4.

 

 

Dang that must have hurt.

 

He was not in a place that he just stop and had to keep going for several minutes to find a place to pull over on the trail (quite steep and rugged). The wound was about 1" long but very deep to the bone, as luck would have it the only thing close to her to stop the bleeding was an oil rag on the floor beside her husband, luckily only used once.


6 stiches to close but it took them over 2 hrs. to get to a small town with a DR's Office to do it. He broke an off road rule also went out without a first aid kit except for one of those $10 ones from Wal-Mart.

 

Yea i learned the 1st aid rule when my stitches broke open on the trail. i had to use super glue

 

Between the driver's seat and center console with an external speaker on the dash right next to the a-pillar. Out of the way and very functional.

 

Seems like I've saw someone mounting inside the armrest/console, can't remember the place.

 

Hey how did you set up that tans temp gauge? And where did you get it?

 

Those are A-Pillar mounts and can be bought from Summit Racing in either 1 or 2 gauge models.

 

For informational purposes this isn't necessary. You are needing an RF ground not a Electrical ground. A ground wire (preferably braided ground strap) from the antenna mount to the metal body of the Jeep would have been "sufficient". Would have been better to mount the antenna to the metal body of the Jeep....but it's yours so if it's location makes you happy then there ya go.