AlaskanWheeler
SILVER Star
Because there is a factory cover plate Toyota used, you'll end up regretting cutting into the metal, eventually...
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No anchor, stickiness of the base keeps it stable unless I jossel up a >20deg incline.
No charging while riding. Battery lasts longer than my 8 minute commute for better than a week. If I need longer, I go USB through cig lighter. Plus it’s all portable and fits in the glove box for “security”
When I was 16, I took my parents 40 to high school auto shop and we drilled out a hole in the dash. Actually a lot of holes and then a lot of filing. Rough trimming of the dash pad, some wiring using mostly the same color wire and voila, Tunes!
Looking back on it now, I wish I wouldn't have cut the hole. I have gone through a couple radios because the cowl leaks. And the CD mechanism never works too long with all the dirt that gets in.
I made an overhead console that mounts to the roll bar hoops (works with the bikini top). I mounted my cb in there along with the 6 disk changer and aux switches. And speakers too. I should've made it and mounted the good times radio in there from the beginning!
Looking back on it now, I wish I wouldn't have cut the hole. I have gone through a couple radios because the cowl leaks. And the CD mechanism never works too long with all the dirt that gets in.
I made an overhead console that mounts to the roll bar hoops (works with the bikini top). I mounted my cb in there along with the 6 disk changer and aux switches. And speakers too. I should've made it and mounted the good times radio in there from the beginning!
Are those Jensens? Model?
Just to toss something else out if you don't want a hole in your dash, I put mine under the center console in a mounting box I sealed up. I never run the hardtop, so it helps keeps those with sticky fingers from seeing it.
Since I saw a speaker mount question as well... I went with a pair of Yamaha outdoor speakers and I caught some Bazooka rollbar mounts on sale that I roughed up and painted black. Now that I see the loom, it does look a little rigged, but they work awesome, match the rollbar contour, and they fit under the hardtop when I test fit them.
