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If you have you tranny rebuilt, ensure you have the radiator serviced. Guy at work had two trannys fail before they reliased that the radiator had a intermittant blockages that resulted in the tranny cooking. He was lucky as he had taken the truck in to a tranny repair in bendigo and told them to fix it - they didnt check on the radator oor arranged for him to have it serviced- they reparied the trannys under warranty.

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I used national windscreen (in Melbourne but they may have an outlet in your area) to replace the windscreen & rubber in my MK (the GQ windscreen & rubber is the same) Was around $320 supplied (windscreen & rubber) & fitted

KMsMK pls let me know if the p/n was correct

As the unit only has a peak current rating of 30Amps, I would only put it in line with your fridge. You can use the VOLT meter sense on the battery. Current measurements are done by putting a shunt resistyor in line and measurering the currant

I got mine - (gq) will be installing on my MK

I have suspected it was the dissy - have been tryng to get my hands on one.

Nice truck

Have a look at the tridon web site http://www.tridon.com.au/partfinder/default.aspx You can confirm the correct p/n -

I use a simalar antenna from RFI that has 3 db gain and is a GPI.

Antenna placement Try and mount the antenna as high as possible on the vehilce. If you mount the antenna on a bull bar, you will have some loss / reduction behind the vehilce. ( I have my antenna mounted on the fron of the vehicle) Dont have any other antennas within 500 mm of your antenna. Dont mount the antenna next to metal, ie at the base of the bull bar

Unless your in the trade like me. I personally run a 3db gain rfi GPI - it has a flexible whip, but most of my driving is in the hills. I used to use these all the time on courier vehicles.

Hooking a 5 watt hand held to an external antenna would be the equivlant to a vehicle mounted radio - dependant on the rf adaptor having no loss. Most of the little hand helds output at the most 2 watts some even less.

Sorrry I posted this late last night. Yes take 2.15 OFF a dbi antenna. Extending cables using connectors. You can extend the antenna cable by using the correct 50 ohm connectors that have been properly terminated. But, you have insertion loss" . Insertion loss is the loss of power across the connector typicaly 1 db. Therefore it is always better to replace the antenna cable if possible and adviod using connectors. Always use good quality connectors - i dont like the cheap screw together connectors that dick smith sell. I use crimp connectors with the correct crimping tool ( we but most off our connectors from Turnbulls)

What type of antenna do you have. Is it a fibre glass type whip Is it a metal rod, as the metal ones are usually a bit shorter. Rays correct in his comment regarding the tune to length. Effectivly a antenna is a pice of wire that is cut to the required frequency - i have made antennas out of fencing wire in the past.

Dont forget the g60's - my old man had a couple of them.

I have a metalic scrapping noise that is intermittant. I only hear the noise when the motor is ideling, if I rev the motor the noise goes a way. Th noise seems tyo be comming from the front of the motor and is intermittant.

At Tallarook

Im looking at relocating my control box into the engine bay - will use welding cable for the heavy duty runs. will look at remoting the interface plug to the front of the truck. I have already fitted a isolater switch, as I have seen a 4wd that was foled in hals by some one running the winch cable over the roof of the truck then inserting a paper clip into the controller to activate the winch.

When purchasing an antenna, you will hear terms of 3db, 6db, 4.15dbi, 2.15 dbi, 9db, 8.1 etc. Some manufacturers use db other use dbi (because it looks better) Db - refers to the gain compared to a ¼ wave roof mounted antenna. Dbi – refers to the theriacal gain of an antenna in a free space vacuum. To compare antennas, take 2.15 of a dbi Antenna. E.g. – an 8.1dbi antenna = 6 db gain antenna. What does gain do? An antenna with a gain of 3 dB gain, means that the Transmitted (radiated) power is 3 dB higher (twice as much) – gain is logarithmic. E.g. A uhf CB is transmitting 5 watts into a 3 db gain antenna; therefore the radiated power is 10 watts A uhf CB is transmitting 5 watts into a 6 db gain antenna; therefore the radiated power is 20 watts Impact of having higher gain antennas I always use a balloon to explain the impact of gain on the radiated energy, with someone stepping on it and gradually flattering the balloon. 0 db – the balloon is round and provides the best all round coverage – ideal for mountains 3 db – the balloon is ¾ round and provides the good all round coverage – ideal for mountains 6 db – the balloon is ½ round and provides the best compromise for mountain driving and driving on the flat 9 db – the balloon is ¼ round and provides the best for driving on the flat - dessert driving) The higher the gain the bigger the antenna. For further reading look here http://www.lakecomm.com.au/Antenna-Prop.html (im not asscoiated with this site)

If you use a (GPI) Ground plan Independant antenna, you dont need to earth the roof Rack. On the new 80 channel radios, the first 40 channels are the same freqs as the old 40 channel rigs. But the radios are now operating in a 12.5 Khz channel plan compared to the old 25 Khz channel plan. This means that the radios are transmitting 1/2 the deviation (voice). Basically you dont get the same freq response - but uhf cb's are not design for high fildality music - speach will still be ok. The extra 40 channels are in between the old channels.

Otherwise get a real patrol - mk / Mq

As in Radio communications Maybe a sticky or two regarding Antennas, Gain & mounting position.

Cant log on at 21:45 to patrol4X4

I used to work for the big M, but now back with the goverment The most comment problem I see if guys doing there connectors incorrectly.