chevymitchell
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- Shawn
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Good morning everyone.
I ordered a Bearcat Off-Road CMX760 over Black Friday and I wanted to share my installation experience with you. I'm still waiting on the spring for the antenna and I'm going to head to https://www.metalsupermarkets.com/ this week to pick up some stainless to make my own antenna mount bracket. I'll share the rest of the install later on when I finish it. Here's what I have so far...
The CMX760 is pretty small, which is quite nice. It's not going to have the range of the bigger CB's nor will it have the speaker volume, but for trail riding, this will be perfect for my needs.
I ended up removing the center stack controls to see if there was room to put some hardware through the plastic. Fortunately, there was enough room for two 11/32" nuts. The mic mount isn't perfectly flush, but it's barely noticeable. One nice thing about this radio is that the mic hooks up with an Ethernet connector.
I ran the mic down the right hand side behind the carpet. I put a strain relief adel clamp around some electrical tape and then attached it to the center stack mount nut; worked perfect.
Next was to find a spot for the amp/control box. This box is super small and light. I went to Lowes last night and picked up some 30lb test double sided tape. This is more than strong enough to hold this little thing. I found a perfect spot behind the glove box to the right. I stuck it to the front r/h lower speaker box. The antenna cable faces down and fits perfect and the the mic extension cable routes to the top with no issues.
That's as far as I got last night, but again, I will post more pics later when I finish it up.
This turned out pretty clean and it's not intrusive to the cockpit at all. There's nothing for the passenger to bang their knees on either, which is nice and the only holes drilled was in that plastic trim; super easy and cheap to replace if I ever needed to in the future.
Thanks everyone.
Here's a video showing the length of the mic coil cord:
I ordered a Bearcat Off-Road CMX760 over Black Friday and I wanted to share my installation experience with you. I'm still waiting on the spring for the antenna and I'm going to head to https://www.metalsupermarkets.com/ this week to pick up some stainless to make my own antenna mount bracket. I'll share the rest of the install later on when I finish it. Here's what I have so far...
The CMX760 is pretty small, which is quite nice. It's not going to have the range of the bigger CB's nor will it have the speaker volume, but for trail riding, this will be perfect for my needs.
I ended up removing the center stack controls to see if there was room to put some hardware through the plastic. Fortunately, there was enough room for two 11/32" nuts. The mic mount isn't perfectly flush, but it's barely noticeable. One nice thing about this radio is that the mic hooks up with an Ethernet connector.
I ran the mic down the right hand side behind the carpet. I put a strain relief adel clamp around some electrical tape and then attached it to the center stack mount nut; worked perfect.
Next was to find a spot for the amp/control box. This box is super small and light. I went to Lowes last night and picked up some 30lb test double sided tape. This is more than strong enough to hold this little thing. I found a perfect spot behind the glove box to the right. I stuck it to the front r/h lower speaker box. The antenna cable faces down and fits perfect and the the mic extension cable routes to the top with no issues.
That's as far as I got last night, but again, I will post more pics later when I finish it up.
This turned out pretty clean and it's not intrusive to the cockpit at all. There's nothing for the passenger to bang their knees on either, which is nice and the only holes drilled was in that plastic trim; super easy and cheap to replace if I ever needed to in the future.
Thanks everyone.
Here's a video showing the length of the mic coil cord:
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