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My plan is to do something similar with armor headlights, but my truck is a "former Civilian" (ha! :lol:), and I'm building my own wiring harness so wouldn't be even close... Quick Photoshop of the planned layout: Where the star is in the picture (where the license plate goes on civi trucks)...

A headlight powered switch wired into a relay-coil on a stock CUCV would work - you'd have two batteries in series giving 24V normally for the Starter+glow plug power. This with the switched side of the relay would provide 24V, and of the toggle switch was powered from the headlight circuit you...

In California it is legal, with state reciprocity it' legal for Californians everywhere :) "... 25251.5. ... (c) Any stoplamp or supplemental stoplamp required or permitted by Section 24603 may be equipped so as to flash not more than four times within the first four seconds after actuation by...

SoundOff Signal "Ghost" light. If you don't want white, they have a cool STT fixture, which can suplement your existing tail lights - has a cool single quad-flash when turned on then holds steady. Not cheap however, expect to pay >$85 each.

I never understood the no armor sales to citizens thing, body armor and in reality armored cars can be had by any citizen who is not a convicted felon or a resident of Connecticut (and soon NY). My view is if the taxpayer paid for it, and they are in good legal standing, they should be able to...

So now calculate what uncle sam is going to see, so that we can bug our Congressman/Senator for how much waste was allowed by scrapping them before. IIRC, $33,000 was the original purchase price in the '80's - so even with wear and maintenance depreciation these sold pretty well for the US...

This'll probably fan the price flames: http://www.ijreview.com/2014/12/218021-2-dod-selling-fleet-humvees-outrageous-price/

10x20 canopy arrived tonight - another box-in-bed-picture: It's a little heavier than I would have liked (75lbs), but the frame is heavier steel rather than the flimsy aluminum ones. Also the cover/top is a nylon fabric - I'm going to replace it with temper-tent vinyl for the tan on black...

Might have to refresh SS, but this is what I saw...

Don't want to be accused of posting info about an active ad - but take a hard look at the banner ad in the top corner for GovPlanet... :jumpin:

I helped a friend's dad move his 40' sloop (Jib and Mainsail) up the pacific coast from the S.F. Bay to the Puget Sound one summer in the early '00's - my Dad, a Navy man, taught me to sail ;-) I know Sea Scouts is still a thing, our local Sea Scout group here in the East (S.F.) Bay has three...

Gosh I'd need a PLS just to carry the wooden deck for that - definitely out of the question for this build ;) [EDIT:] Holy $#!+, I just looked at the Glamping.com site... >=$1,000/night/person?!?!? WTF? What's wrong with rich people? rofl[/EDIT]

Some times it skips a generation - my grandfather on my mom's side is an Eagle - my dad was a scout, but never made it to Eagle. I was the only one of three sons to make Eagle - IIRC my older brother only had paperwork left after having completed his service project (life happened for him, then...

To mark my territory, I bought few stencils from Dr. Evil Porkchop (THANKS!!) so I can mark the tents, cases, etc..: Of course when my wife saw them, she yelled: "Hail Hydra!" So it seems my wife agrees with RustyStud about having enough equipment to field a small army ("and it begins...")...

Small mercenary "army", yes that is the plan, as long as by "small mercenaries" we mean short uniformed people: (<-- random Google Image) At least the adults will be comfortable (heat, coffee, light, coffee, flushing toilets, coffee, hot running water, coffee) - we can make the kids suffer...

Well - I won an auction on e-place for a canopy (non-enclosed tent). If you refer back to the first post, picture #3, you'll see two 10'x10' canopies behind the truck with the shelter: I won a 10x20 tan on black frame so-called commercial canopy ("heavy" trade show style) and I couldn't argue...

I "like" :) a selectable locker in the front (to go with selectable 4WD), and a limited slip (like a Detroit TrueTrac) in the rear. I've run a TrueTrac on my 2WD Toyota for several years, there is a slight noise going around very tight corners (not the classic "clunk" of a Detroit Locker), but...

I like the idea of an OX locker, but not how they assembled it - I've seen a few which have broken. The part I like is that you can actuate it from air, a cable, or just shoving a bolt in the side of the diff cover. It's almost as expensive as an ARB Air Locker. I also wish the E-lockers...

For future reference if you have this type of LED toggle switch: the resistor is in the lever with the LED. If you have this type: the LED and resistor is in the base. If you want to avoid resistors with LEDs in a toggle completely, you can make an LED illuminated toggle into a "multi-volt"...

The other Hardigg case came today - here's an obligatory "box in the back of the truck" shot: This case is plenty large enough for all of the ToughBooks I want to include, and the VoIP phones I want to have available - I'll just add some cut and glued foam and it'll be good to go. Once the...