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Should be a small metal button on one of the sides of the switch behind the dash

Mad fab skills!

Dude, you are making me jealous with all these pictures. Great shots!

Really Ben, stellar work. The route you're going with this is exactly how I envisioned it when I was brainstorming a similar idea. Every step has been top notch and not a single corner cut. Congratulations on such a great job!

I ran the Freeze 12 in a 90 XJ and was happy with it. Air blew nice and cold.

Yes sir, sure do. Do you have time to give me a couple days to get it?

I agree. The swap is worth it. I fell in love with her all over again after I did it. Looks like you've got a great platform to build on. If you run into any brick walls with it, just ask. Plenty of us have done it now. And welcome!

Pay shipping and its yours

Ryan, I've got one from the new donor. Can't remember if its light gray or agate gray though. I'm assuming you need the agate?

So......how many times have you seen Star Wars? :D

Thanks for the compliments. If you haven't seen it before, this thread may help you along the way: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=32505

Just realized I hadn't posted a pic of the navigation in action, so here it is.

More parts hoarding on the Phoenix. Big thanks to Pat (JeepcoMJ) for the fog lights and harness. Also scored a KJ Renegade roof light bar for this truck. I think with the MJ in the mango tango paint, the light bar and factory fogs will look great.

I agree with Ryan. I'm feeling the Inca gold.

As soon as the radio was in, I tore the entire dash out and pulled the HVAC box. My blend door for heat and air was sticking on the heat side of things. I had ordered the stainless blend door from heater treater but didn't want to cut the box to install it. I didn't get any real pictures of the process because I was in a hurry to get it apart and back together. I knew it was inevitable to take the dash out and I had been putting off since last fall. Now that that's done it was time to start on this. I opened the box for the water pump and found an old pump someone had brought back. Meh, oh well. Another day maybe seeing as how Napa is closed for the weekend and I'm too tired to be mad about it.

The box in the console is the add on navigation unit (AVIC-U220). Its wired to a GPS antenna and into the back of the head unit. Its two piece with a base and the module itself. The module is removable so you can plug it into a PC for updates. It also has an SD card slot for expandable memory for added points of interest, map data, media(pictures), etc.

If you guys remember a year or so when I was initially building this truck, you may remember the stereo. I originally got a Clarion NX500 head unit with a flip out screen. After running this unit for a year, I have decided its a huge steaming pile of crap! First the unit would freeze on whatever current screen was up. I called Crutchfield and they sent me a new one. On the replacement unit, the navigation has never worked. It says it was seeing satellites but never really was. The bluetooth connection was worthless. Even sitting at a red light, whoever was on the other end couldnt hear anything. And if you were playing mp3s from a thumb drive each song would start about 2 to 3 seconds into the song. Nitpicky, I know, buy annoying nonetheless. Streaming bluetooth audio from my phone worked fine, as long as you only wanted mids and highs. For some reason, it would never reproduce low frequencies through bluetooth audio. Honestly, the only thing that worked flawlessly was the DVD. But seeing as how I don't really watch movies at 70mph, it wasnt enough to enjoy. Moving on to two weeks ago, I started hunting down a new nav unit. I kept seeing the pioneer units and was liking what I had read about them. Ended up ordering one. I decided the best accesible spot that was out of the way was in the center console. It was too tall to fit in, so out came my trusty dremel. I also changed my mind about where i had originally mounted the usb jack so I moved it as well I know, this is just an add on nav unit that only works with pioneer head units. Well I covered that area as well. I hunted for a single DIN that I liked and only found one that was way overpriced. All of there other ones are double DIN. Sucks to have a Jeep with a din and a half. None of them will fit. Or will they? Since I had the double DIN and I already had the dremel out, here's what happened... What do you guys think?

I say its an ostrich

Haha I wish! I honestly don't think I'll see much of any improvement in mileage with electric fans. Thanks brother. That means a lot coming from you On changing the radiator, I guess it was definitely time. When putting the upper hose onto the new rad, I noticed a bushing looking thing in the hose. Turns out it was the end of the neck from the OEM radiator. The last half inch had broken off clean and was stuck in the hose. :ack:

Wow! I don't remember the conversation going quite that way. However, I do recall a lot of condescension and heartless ridicule! Of course you said you were paraphrasing more or less. ;) I still can't believe he gave it to you free after quoting me 500 for it. And that was after he quoted me 560 for some steering work on a trailblazer. I guess I had "sucker" tattooed on my forehead that day...LOL. And for those of you who are reading this, the guy that charged me and gave it to Jay......I've known that cat since I was a little boy!!! Oh well. I'm just glad it found a good home instead of sitting there rusting away. At the very least it can be a good organ donor. As they say, "all's fair in love and war". So Jay, it seems you won that round. Well played sir. :cheers: (I think you owe me a few beers now) Comanche County FTW!!!

:dunno: Edit: duh, nevermind....

To a well deserved and well respected role model for us hatchlings. Congratulations El Jimbo!

With summer nearing I decided my old original single core radiator wasn't cutting it anymore. Its been 80 to 85 degrees the last few days and with the air conditioner running, my temps on the way to work have hovered around 225 to 230. Enter the CSF 2671 all metal 3 core radiator. Now to see how well it stays cool in the Texas sun this summer!

Out of the 3 you posted, I like the first ones. The AR23.

I use windows media center also, but with a plug-in called "my movies". www.mymovies.dk