Builds ROTW - Walking Eagle's White Trash Lexus

[Walking Eagle]

almost forgot one mod - I'll take a picture of it tonight, I have dual hazzard switches. The first is normal, the second one is plugged in for a CDL. Happened to see it discussed at the same time that I got a new a/c control that had the whole dash surround and all the buttons in it. Free is ok by me, and I haven't screwed up and locked my center diff. when needing to put hazards on yet.

 

[ginericLC]

So where did you get the RAM mount drink holders?

I still think you watched Smokey in the Bandit one too many times with those wheels.

Replace your center sub with a small fullrange speaker and use that for your CB sound.

Oh and I already have blue rock lights. I've had them for a long time. I had blue ones prior to CM 04. They were the cheapest lights I could get. And for rock lights cheap is the way to go as they do break eventually.

 

[desertdude]

Very amazing 80 ! great to read your mod list and see how much you have done all ready - I like the GPS location

thanks for posting

 

[450 Cruiser]

Go Pokes!

 

[450 Cruiser]

BTW Nice rig. Great work on the home fab sliders. If you wanna keep the white trash theme, you gotta keep the wheels.

 

[Walking Eagle]

So where did you get the RAM mount drink holders?.

I think I got them from expressmount.com I origonally just bought this

http://65.102.174.116/rammount/productdetail.aspx?partnumber=RAP-B-132&searchTerm=drink&item=4

But the arm wasn't long enough to mount it the way I wanted in front of the transfercase shifter. So, I got a second arm, and a second drink holder and one of these

http://www.ram-mount.com/ramwebcompthumb/ram2172.JPG

and a 12" long 1/4" npt pipe. Welded the pipe to the mounting plate shown, cut the pipe part way through and rewelded it bent to get it to hug the tunnel. It was more expensive in the end than I really wanted, but it's better than covering the radio. I think you could do the same thing with those gimbled drink holders that rubicon express advertises in the magazines,

http://www.rubiconusa.com/store/product.asp?productnum=ORCH&folderid=1647

you'd just have to do a little more work on the mount. Since I still have that round base left over, I'm thinking of putting a camera mount on the dash....

I still think you watched Smokey in the Bandit one too many times with those wheels.

I can't wholely disagree with that.

Replace your center sub with a small fullrange speaker and use that for your CB sound.

Sounds like a good idea, I've been wanting to mount a real sub for a while now.

Oh and I already have blue rock lights. I've had them for a long time. I had blue ones prior to CM 04. They were the cheapest lights I could get. And for rock lights cheap is the way to go as they do break eventually.

Do you like the blue? I'd think the color would make the rocks a little sharper looking, sorta like wearing blue glasses....

 

[spartan]

Great truck. I wish I could find a white one....they are the best color.

I passed on a white '97 with lockers to get the 40th I have. It came from the factory without a roof rack, running boards, tow package or any of the bling.

 

[teleguy11@yahoo.com]

The unusual stuff:

Funky cup holders – They’re RAM Mount drink holders. I did it cause as we all know the stock drink holders are worthless, and I didn’t want to pay a small fortune for a cup holder that covers my radio. The gimbles really do work to keep you from spilling your coke all over.

RAM GPS mount – pretty basic Garmin Etrex, but it does tell me the correct speed I’m going, and it does give an altitude reading.

I totally agree with the rediculous cupholder placement. I can just imagine the look on the faces of the technicians at Eclipse while seeing the dryed up coffee and soda that spilled in my head unit.
BTW... Isn't your GPS unit a Magellan Explorist? I have the Explorist 400 that looks identical to yours but is white in color. I'm not too pleased with the 400 as it is quite cumbersome to interface with a computer and not very user friendly. I am quite impressed with it's accuracy though.

JSF

 

[Walking Eagle]

BTW... Isn't your GPS unit a Magellan Explorist? I have the Explorist 400 that looks identical to yours but is white in color. I'm not too pleased with the 400 as it is quite cumbersome to interface with a computer and not very user friendly. I am quite impressed with it's accuracy though.

JSF

Yep, it's a Magellan Explorist 100. I didn't really put alot of thought into buying it, I just had a credit at Bass Pro Shop from my Bass Pro Mastercard, so I got the cheapest. Other than speed and corrdinates, it's pretty worthless. Too hard to use for routes and such. If / when I upgrade though, I can still use the same RAM arm and just get a different craddle.