I had to use a 2nd video cable, and use a coupler to get from the back end to my head unit.

Went out last weekend, and really worked that shotgun. 6 of us got together and tore up a bunch of clays.

 

Nice! I went to Scheels and was drooling over the Super Nova that I would like to purchase. Just haven't yet for unknown reasons......

 

You know that is true, I am also in the middle of building a big pit smoker on a trailer. I have about half the actual smoker welded together should hopefully be complete by the end of January then I need to get a trailer for it.



And I know what you mean about not getting that nova, I have been looking at another rifle quite hard myself but like you said no real reason why I have not just bought it yet.

 

Oh yes, there will be pictures. It's actually not here yet, should be delivered tomorrow.

 

So you have an acreage, a giant smoker, and all us guys that like to shoot guns, sounds like a get together to me, not that I am inviting myself over or anything!! I bought a hog earlier this year so I could bring some pork!

 

The thought has definitely crossed my mind, could do some rock shooting, and definitely fire up the smoker. Its about half finished as of now but once its done I will need an excuse to fire it up

 

Here is a crummy pic of the tractor I had to fill a pot hole in the drive way in, last night.


And here is roughly where the smoker is at, its a little further along then that but its close just about 40" of continuous welding to do on the reverse flow pan. Then I need to weld the grates, and firebox up and create a stand for the time being so that it can be used like that until I find a trailer for it. For scale purposes, that smoke stack is 6.625" in diameter and 3' long, and .25" thick. Well the entire unit will be made of 1/4" steel or thicker. The only part that will be thinner is the door frames for sealing purposes and those are 1/8" steel so its all very heavily built.

 

Wow...

 

Nice! My Christmas present to myself was a Traeger pellet grill!

 

Those are awesome

And it got a lot more done to it last night. I have a wedding to go to sat so I don't know how much I will get done this weekend, but I did cut the rest of the metal to finish it out this morning

 

Finally have all of my cables and such ready. I plan on getting backup cam and new HU installed this weekend. Pics to come!!

 

So here's my little write up for my back-up camera install.



Boyo vtk 350 from Sonic Electronix. I decided I would try for a clean install of this instead of a license plate camera. Don't know why, just thought I would try it. I decided to use the keyhole for the tailgate lock as my mounting point. A higher point of view than a license plate mount.





Of course some modification has to happen. That's what Dremel tools with sanding drums are for. I enlarged the hole enough for the body of the camera to be inserted.





The housing for the lock is too big for the mounting hardware to fit, so I used a cut off wheel with the dremel and removed the unnecessary plastic.



Now the retaining nut has room to be tightened.





All mounted up.

A bit of wiring,



I ran the power and ground wire up to my headunit, along with the video cable. I ended up using a 16ft length, a coupler, and another 6ft to have enough length. I probably could have used a shorter run for power and ground, but I knew I could just tap into the switched power lead and the ground from the head unit out of the harness. Easier for me the better.

It got dark, so I didn't get pictures yet of the finished product. Stay tuned!!

 

Sweet looks like a nice clean install! Great work.

 

The (almost) finished project! Only thing left to do is find the black and pink reverse sensing wire in the drivers side harness, but I do have rear view camera!!





One snag, is that the faceplate wouldn't flip open because of the gray piece on the radio bezel. I had to trim some off so it could open. What should I use to build that back up and fill in a bit? I would then probably paint that area black just to have it blend in better.



And note to self. It's probably easier to put the wires IN the loom, then thread that through. I ran the wires, then tested my patience trying to get the wires tucked in blind up above the gas tank and various frame places.





By the way, so far this HU rocks!! Love Pandora over my Iphone. I was starting to hate my music on my ipod, now a whole new selection. This sounds great, movies are very sonically detailed, plus it's fun just trying out the settings. I still have a lot to learn on it, but I am happy!!

 

If it were me I would decide how much I want to build it up, take that trim piece off, use fiberglass to build it up, and then sand and paint it will be real tough to match texture though.