My CB install

[soccerbrace]

Alright, so I have so many plans that I need to catch up on some small stuff before I do my dual battery set up. With that said here is MY install!

First off I got the Cobra 18 WXST II

There are 2 versions made.

Here is the first one

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/cobra_18wxst.jpg

And here is the new and improved version,

The Cobra 18 WXST II

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/18WXST2.jpg

Improvements on the later model include

-10 NOAA Weather Channels
-40 Channel scan
-Dual Channel watch
-Instant channel 9 and 19

Here is what the back of it looks like

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/Picture002.jpg

There are 3 wires coming out of the back, they are power, ground, and memory

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/Picture001.jpg

I cut them all off

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/Picture003.jpg

here there are, separated from their mother....

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/Picture004.jpg

I stripped them and threw some pins on there

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/Picture005.jpg

and made a little plug

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/Picture011.jpg

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/Picture033.jpg

Notice I made a whole bunch of them

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/Picture067.jpg

I wanted to make my own harness and make the install as clean as possible.

Notice I snipped off the inline fuses? Well after the above plug, I ran those fuses someplace else because I did not want to dig through my dash to get to them. So, the negative continued on back toward the battery.

The power and memory went to a different kind of fuse holder.These are really cool. the top screws off and you throw a fuse in there.


http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/Picture051.jpg

Took a step drill and drilled 2 holes

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/Picture050.jpg

I did have to do a little modifying which included drilling and cutting this part on the inside

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/Picture055.jpg

So the power and memory went to and from the fuses back to the plug where it met up with the ground wire once again

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/Picture068.jpg

So I also decided to run a little fan to draw hot air away from the CB. I got this from Radio Shack. it was either $18 or $26. Can't remember.

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/Picture065.jpg

I tapped the ground into the existing ground, and (not according to this pic), I tapped the power into the cigarette lighter power. The fan comes on whenever the key is in the acc., running, or in the on position. I almost always run at least the stereo, and I run the CB while I am in town to talk to Jeff W. and soon, Woody too.

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/Picture069.jpg

Here is a better Idea of how it is set up.

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/Picture066.jpg

From that plug, I ran all the wire through plastic spiral casing. At this point I was all out of properly color coded wiring, so I tied 2 loops in power, one loop in memory, and no loops in the ground

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/Picture071.jpg

So I mounted the fan right on the side so air is drawn through.

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/intakemodwithPaul009-1.jpg

Finally I routed it through the dash, the grommet, and the eng. compartment to the battery. You will see the three ring terminals going straight to the positive and negative. Of course the memory and power went to positive while the ground went to negative.

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/intakemodwithPaul007-1.jpg

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/intakemodwithPaul008-1.jpg

At this point, I disconnected the plug from the back of the CB. The reason I did this, is because I wanted to mount it in the dash so I had 2 single DIN consoles in the stock location.

Ok so my goal was to get both of these consoles to fit in the exact same spot as the old DVD player

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/Friends039.jpg

There were A LOT of small, tedious things that I had to do to get this to work.

Drill another hole in the dash.....

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/Friends044.jpg

I also bought two of these little piece from a stereo shop,

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/Friends040.jpg

and cut them to fit. I HAD to mount this diagonally for this to work.

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/Friends042.jpg

The CB doesn't come with that hole that the knob is screwed into. I actually had to take the casing off of the CB, and drill and tap 2 identical holes on either side, so it mounted to the bracket. I could see all of the circuit boards and everything. I also took the casing to the grinding wheel and cut a triangle on the top and bottom of the casings on either side so that I could access this hole.

NOW the bracket goes on.......

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/Friends043.jpg

Next, I finally installed it! It took me quite some time to get all of the stereo put together and installed but it works perfect.

I mounted it and threw it all back together. Here are some pics of the final product. Notice the RONIN sticker?

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/Friends069.jpg

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/Friends065.jpg

and a close up of how clean the fuse mount went.

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/Friends066.jpg

SPECIAL THANKS TO WOODY for the great advice and the hours on the phone and working on the small stuff helping me with my obsessive compulsion for trying to make it as clean as possible!

Hope you enjoyed!-James


As far as the antenna and the coax go, I went super temporary in waiting for other mods.....Yup, can't open the hatch....

Where does everyone have their Mic mounted?

[ChefTyler]

Nicely done, James. One observation...you went through all that trouble and you're still running your iPod through FM modulation? :D

At some point, I'll have to do a write up on my install, though not nearly as clean as yours.

[soccerbrace]

You know what? That CD player isn't set up for the Ipod to my knowledge. And actually, I am happy with it's location. I am going to have to run it through the dash and into the glove box soon though. Here is what's coming next for me...

Getting this for myself.....
http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h27/soccerbrace/KVT-819DVD.jpg

You can program 2 buttons on there on the touchscreen to turn something on or off. I think I am going to do it with my lighting.

[itsme1738]

verry clean