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Made a sweet little bracket today to hold my handheld CB, cos i'm sick of it flying around the cab when i'm driving / having no where to put it =)

Just used some basic hooks from bunnings - opened up the holes to accept the standard mirror screws, and drilled 2 new holes on the hooks for the cross-piece to screw into (i got the cross piece from benchai, it came with the softtop). The clip on the back of the radio just slips over the cross-piece, so you can just grab the radio and lift it off to take it out of the car. Cost under $10 and took bugger all time to do, and the result speaks for itself i think:

http://members.iinet.net.au/~alien/picc ... G_1493.JPG
http://members.iinet.net.au/~alien/picc ... G_1494.JPG

To make it even easier to talk while driving, i can also use the remote Mic attachment that came with the radio:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~alien/picc ... G_1495.JPG

Author:	Her-Toy-95 [ Fri Sep 11, 2020 3:14 pm ]
Post subject:	Roof Consoles for 89 Sierra
Hey! Can anyone recommend a good roof console for an 89 Sierra? To suit a UHF etc etc? I've been google'ing with no hope

Author:	rpmwrx [ Fri Sep 11, 2020 4:24 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Roof Consoles for 89 Sierra
I've never seen one. I'd say you'd have to get creative and make one yourself.

Author:	303zuke [ Fri Sep 11, 2020 4:43 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Roof Consoles for 89 Sierra
Don't know where you are, but Dept of the Interior in Sydney have made them for years and have them on display in their showroom (and will probably post out, anyway): https://www.consoles.com.au/Suzuki_Sier ... onsole.htm You would want to be short, or have a Hi-Roof NT, as they don't leave a lot of headroom.

Author:	Gwagensteve [ Fri Sep 11, 2020 4:58 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Roof Consoles for 89 Sierra
303zuke wrote: or have a Hi-Roof NT, as they don't leave a lot of headroom. I don't think that would make any difference to headroom 303, they mount off the header rail so in a Hi-roof car would just add room above the shelf. I had one here for years I yanked out of a car I rebuilt. Made the car claustrophobic, didn't mount very nicely, and was pretty space inefficient. It was also heavy. What's the ect ect on top of a UHF you need up there Her-Toy-95?

Author:	alien [ Fri Sep 11, 2020 8:58 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Roof Consoles for 89 Sierra
Copied from my build thread: Quote: Made a sweet little bracket today to hold my handheld CB, cos i'm sick of it flying around the cab when i'm driving / having no where to put it =) Just used some basic hooks from bunnings - opened up the holes to accept the standard mirror screws, and drilled 2 new holes on the hooks for the cross-piece to screw into (i got the cross piece from benchai, it came with the softtop). The clip on the back of the radio just slips over the cross-piece, so you can just grab the radio and lift it off to take it out of the car. Cost under $10 and took bugger all time to do, and the result speaks for itself i think: http://members.iinet.net.au/~alien/picc ... G_1493.JPG http://members.iinet.net.au/~alien/picc ... G_1494.JPG To make it even easier to talk while driving, i can also use the remote Mic attachment that came with the radio: http://members.iinet.net.au/~alien/picc ... G_1495.JPG

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Author:	Her-Toy-95 [ Sat Sep 12, 2020 12:40 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Roof Consoles for 89 Sierra
Gwagensteve wrote: 303zuke wrote: or have a Hi-Roof NT, as they don't leave a lot of headroom. I don't think that would make any difference to headroom 303, they mount off the header rail so in a Hi-roof car would just add room above the shelf. I had one here for years I yanked out of a car I rebuilt. Made the car claustrophobic, didn't mount very nicely, and was pretty space inefficient. It was also heavy. What's the ect ect on top of a UHF you need up there Her-Toy-95? Extra space maybe? Chuck my sunnies or wallet in there maybe? I’d mount the UHF there just so it wasn’t so cluttered in the dash.

Author:	Jezzer [ Sat Sep 12, 2020 11:52 am ]
Post subject:	Re: Roof Consoles for 89 Sierra
What I did was use another one of the inner roof supports and a piece of alloy plate to mount my UHF. And then run a mic extension cable down to under the glove box so the cable wasn’t over the windscreen Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Author:	Gwagensteve [ Sun Sep 13, 2020 1:32 pm ]
Post subject:	Re: Roof Consoles for 89 Sierra
I just riveted my UHF mounting bracket to the roof, but I'm sure not everyone will think that's a viable option. These days UHF's are so compact I don't see the need in adding a whole shelf to the car to mount one. One of the best ways of storing oddments in a Sierra is a climbing chalk bag around on the passenger's grab handle. They sort of self close so stuff doesn't fall out when you end up on your side (and they act like a sort of gimble too) stuff doesn't rattle, and it's easy to reach and shove things in. Stuff on roof consoles always seems to slide forward against the header rail where it's hard to reach, or it slides across to the passenger side, and the whole thing ends up a trap for junk, dust, and odds and ends because it's hard to clean out.

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