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Nice work on the restore, Marc! Ive always been envious of people that can do such amazing things for vehicles. re: hi-lift - I’m not knocking all the great utilities those things have, but I’ve seen them darn near kill a couple people because they were inexperienced. My arb xjack will give my lifted wrangler the clearance it needs. In my case, Im more likely to need to get my jeep up in sandy beaches or mud, so a large exhaust lift is a better option for me. We can probably agree the best solution is to have both im hoping to find a friend tomorrow who will help me rewire my radio. Then I’ll let y’all know what I get with the swr.

I wanted to do that, but my wife complained that she didn't want to see the antenna in the middle of her field of view. Figured that was a nice compromise. LOL I love my farm jack. I agree, they are a get multipurpose tool. I like the air jacks but my Jeep is too tall. I can't find one that actually gets the tires off the ground. Thanks! I know it doesn't look like it now, but that is/was an M1008 CUCV. At least it was when we bought it. It started life on Fort Lee, and eventually made its way here. We completely restored it to original military spec, including the troop seats and paint. The original 6.2 was in it and it only had 52,000 on the clock. It had the IR/Service lights, 24v electrical (basically for just the starter and jump port). Sadly, the motor let go, then the TH400 let go and took out the transfer case. After that, someone smacked the bed with a big truck and made a mess of it. We put a 6" lift kit on it, cross-over steering, high-performance carbed 350, rebuilt the turbo 400 with a manual reverse valve body, and slapped a new transfer case in it. It has all new brakes. Its about to get a new hydro-assist, front and rear winch, and some other minor stuff. Anyway, we changed it so much that we decided its not much of a M1008 any more. So we are restoring the full interior and we are going to slowly rehab the outside. After the first restore... http://fiveguysracing.com/marc/CUCV/CUCV1.jpg http://fiveguysracing.com/marc/CUCV/CUCV2.jpg I volunteer with the County, doing emergency comms. So, we are setting it up for 'Hi-Visibility'. We still need to finish the paint, but this is what it looks like right now... http://fiveguysracing.com/marc/CUCV/CUCV3.jpg http://fiveguysracing.com/marc/CUCV/CUCV4.jpg

Got antenna 1 wired up easy-peasy! SWR shows 1.2ish. I'll take that

Nice! I love the CUCV pickups. One of my friends has an M1028A1 which is the dually pickup version, Dana 70 rear (still with Detroit Locker), NP205 'case. I would like to build something like an M1028, but with a crew cab and a bobbed bed. I've seen a picture of one done like that, and it was sweet!

Okay, no worries. I know that store-and-forward is prohibited on MURS, but haven't found anything for GMRS.