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No rails, no cover ........... wow.

Welcome and let me be the first to say nopics

I was able to hold the nutsert with pliers and run a bolt in it and tighten it until the inside flanges engage the internal brace. I like the wire idea though.

I used a commercial NMO mount on a flat plate that bolts to the military antenna bracket. Then I used commercial 5/8 wave VHF antennas.

Mine were 5/16-18 although I believe others have reported 3/8-16.

Welcome, it is only a matter of time before more green iron appears around your home. :twisted:

The truck is all 12V except for the starter and glow plug system. You can leave it stock and wire your 12V radios to the front battery and just ignore the back battery (or rotate them periodically).

In stock form the second alternator floats 12V above the chassis ground. You would have to convert the truck to 12V only using the driver's side alternator and then modify the passenger side alternator system to have the passenger alternator grounded to the chassis as well. Do you have the 24v...

The military radios used 24V and so they drew off both batteries equally (in theory). I could see how using both batteries in parallel for 12V radios would allow the civilian radios to draw off both batteries equally (in theory). Plus it would provide more radio operation time before having to...

Looks good.

White smoke is unburned fuel. Do you have an injector that is not closing properly? Isn't there a troubleshooting technique that says to loosen one injector line at a time until you find the bad injector? (idle will get rough(er) if the injector is good and show no change if the injector is bad)

A school I work for has a large pair of bolt cutters. They use them to cut the locks off lockers that students left in place past the removal deadline. Whatever you do the pad lock needs to be shielded so that bolt cutters cannot reach it. In reality all we are doing is encouraging the...

A starter would be good to have. Depending on cost some other parts as well.

I change my glow plugs when the engine is cold as I reach the back plugs from underneath (arms on exhaust pipes). Anti-seize is a good thing.

Most electrical supply house carry a conductive electrical grease that is used to prevent corrosion on electrical power connections. Would that be a good thing to use on these audio distribution blocks or would there be problems because of the audio frequencies rather than the 60Hz power frequency?

If you have swapped the engine what is left to convert? I am thinking 454 gas engine. Shouldn't it have a single 12V alternator and 12V stater already? If you are going to keep two batteries just parallel them.

Doesn't the oil pressure sensor just ground one side of the light?

Sweet app. Thank you.

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I can google average car audio db ratings but I was just curious as to what db level of the truck is when running and/or moving. I was hoping someone on the thread would have a way of measuring or would have already done so.