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What did you do with your Grenadier today?

Went for a bit of a drive in the country again yesterday. 450km later.
Down around the Scenic Rim area, dirt roads and NP tracks from Boonah to Killarney in the rain (nice and muddy), tried to do the Condamine Gorge road (13 creek crossings, easy driving but through a very pretty gorge) but they’d closed it. Hasn’t been enough rain to have the crossings at a metre or anything silly, but the problem is people try to do it in urban SUVs when the creeks are low so they close it even when there’s only 400-500mm over deeper ones. In fairness there was some very heavy rain an hour or two later which may have lifted the levels much higher for a while so better safe than sorry I guess.
Anyway, a beer and a feed at the Killarney pub, then home via back roads to Cunningham Gap and easy highway drive home. A good day out, particularly since I took mum with us to give her a day out (we lost my old man to dementia just before Christmas).
Now the grenny needs a tub sometime today I suppose.
 
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bigleonski said:
Went for a bit of a drive in the country again yesterday. 450km later.
Down around the Scenic Rim area, dirt roads and NP tracks from Boonah to Killarney in the rain, tried to do the Condamine Gorge road but they’d closed it. Hasn’t been enough rain to have the crossings at a metre or anything silly, but the problem is people try to do it in urban SUVs when the creeks are low so they close it even when there’s only 400-500mm over deeper ones.
Anyway, a beer and a feed at the Killarney pub, then home via back roads to Cunningsham Gap and easy highway drive home. A good day out, particularly since I took mum with us to give her a day out (we lost my old man to dementia just before Christmas).
Now the grenny needs a tub sometime today I suppose.
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That's a nice drive @bigleonski . We planned to go to Queen Mary Falls and Brown's Falls last Friday to see how much water is running. Other life events scuttled the plan so we didn't go. Another day.
 
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That's a nice drive @bigleonski . We planned to go to Queen Mary Falls and Brown's Falls last Friday to see how much water is running. Other life events scuttled the plan so we didn't go. Another day.
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Yeah that happens. As you said - another weekend.
As usual, didn’t see another grenny all day. Until we got back to dropping mum home and pulled up very briefly beside a queens red trayback cab chassis at Northgate. Now that looked awesome. I can’t say I’m a fan of queens red in the wagon, but this with the alloy tray on the back looked grouse!
 
My roof rack mounted scene lights are great. But strong... And I share the 10A circuit with my starlink. So I wanted to have a switch for the scene lights and while I was at it I wanted a switch with a dimmer.

I hunted for one for a while and I found one from a marine supply shop. It's a touch switch and dimmer, suitable for outdoors use on boats...

Got it and made a bracket for it so it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb.

Circuit unpowered, button is the aluminum piece on the bracket I made (also out of aluminum).
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Circuit has power, button has a light blue halo glow.
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One touch and it is full brightness.
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Touch and hold and it dims.
I connected both side lights to this button
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. The rear trunk lightbar (a stedi bar) has its own button. I'm going to post pics on that install tomorrow.

I need to tuck away the wires a bit better, but that's for tomorrow.
 
Baron Bigglesworth just got ducked in the parking lot. 4 Wranglers within 30’ of me at the grocery store - no way of telling who the sonofagun was who defiled my Grenadier

Amendment - and now there is a cybertruck parked across the street from my house - guy visiting his parents. This is going to be one of those weeks. I think I feel a touch of the Black Death coming on.
 

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I cleaned up the wiring for my dimmer switch i built for my roof rack lights.
I also wired in the starlink to a permanent mount on the roof rack. I fought and fought with that all afternoon.
It was erratic, sometimes it worked great other times i just had no power to the starlink.

In the end i started suspecting that the cable from @DVA Mechanics had issues. It seems to be position and vibration dependent, and i think its the plug that goes into starlink that made a partial connection that was sensitive to the vibration. I ended up sacrificing a cigarette lighter cable that i had and put a Deutch connector on it. After that it worked perfectly. I probably had 2 hours of debugging into it by then. Painful...

I got the sides done and i got the wiring cleaned up.
From this
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To this:
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Happy camper now. Just the last little bit of wiring for the rear lightbar and i'm done.
 
CrazyOldMan said:
Baron Bigglesworth just got ducked in the parking lot. 4 Wranglers within 30’ of me at the grocery store - no way of telling who the sonofagun was who defiled my Grenadier

Amendment - and now there is a cybertruck parked across the street from my house - guy visiting his parents. This is going to be one of those weeks. I think I feel a touch of the Black Death coming on.
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Sorry, this Aussie doesn’t get the significance?
What’s getting “ducked” mean?
 
Burrero said:
Installed the Frontrunner storage platform
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THIS is what I’ve been thinking of doing, albeit without their platform, just the boxes, and for the huge amount of money they want for the rest I thought I’d knock something ip myself.
I was wondering if four of those would fit side by side width wise inside the rear.
Does that give you a more or less flat platform with the second row down?
 
parb said:
I cleaned up the wiring for my dimmer switch i built for my roof rack lights.
I also wired in the starlink to a permanent mount on the roof rack. I fought and fought with that all afternoon.
It was erratic, sometimes it worked great other times i just had no power to the starlink.

In the end i started suspecting that the cable from @DVA Mechanics had issues. It seems to be position and vibration dependent, and i think its the plug that goes into starlink that made a partial connection that was sensitive to the vibration. I ended up sacrificing a cigarette lighter cable that i had and put a Deutch connector on it. After that it worked perfectly. I probably had 2 hours of debugging into it by then. Painful...

I got the sides done and i got the wiring cleaned up.
From this
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To this:
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Happy camper now. Just the last little bit of wiring for the rear lightbar and i'm done.
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Looking good @parb
When I installed my camp lights my lizard engineer brain couldn't cope with the loom poking out the front of the outlet cover so I notched out a section at the back with a chainsaw file. Yeah I know, OTT.
 

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I made the headlights useless... Ok, really I didn't do anything other than drive it; the weather made the headlights useless....

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Dammit why doesn’t the aftermarket do something useful and come up with something for this? Probably my biggest irritant on the Grenadier, living up here on the North Pole.
 
CrazyOldMan said:
Surely you jest. The US has its fair share of atrocities and war crimes - this one belongs to Canada, the only country that could make “being nice” and giving a compliment an overt act of hostility. Gaze into the abyss of Jeepdom.

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Well there you go. Only in America hey.

If we wanted to show affection to a fellow traveler in Oz, we’d probably stick a stubby of beer under the windshield wiper. 😉. Far more practical. 😂
 
bigleonski said:
Well there you go. Only in America hey.

If we wanted to show affection to a fellow traveler in Oz, we’d probably stick a stubby of beer under the windshield wiper. 😉. Far more practical. 😂
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Mmmmmmm - I’ve personally seen it at least once in Melbourne (although who knows - it could have been an expat banker from New York). It’s spread beyond Canada and the US. You think you’ve escaped? Hah! “They” are coming for you.

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