Gumball

Thank you for the good information. ACE charged me $1.15 a piece for the nuts. Your place, McMaster-Carr charged me about $.30 a piece plus shipping. Quite a savings. I bought enough to do my whole car and my buddies car.

Thanks again,

Gumball

I finally took the hood off my Trooper today - boy was that fun. I'm looking for a good power source for my GPS. With all the expert help on this forum I figured someone will have a good answer to this question. Any thoughts will be appreciated.

To avoid the need for 6 foot long arms to get to the nuts under the hood I went to ACE Hardware and bought some UNM-L6 U nuts. They slide right over the frame brackets that should have had the 10mm nuts tacked to them. That solved the problem of trying to hold the nuts with one hand while trying to loosen the screws with the other. Being a new guy, others probably did this long ago but I thought I'd share anyhow.

Gumball

OFF ROAD/ON ROAD GARMIN GPS

Garmin Street Pilot lll

This unit has been hardened by Touratech for off road use, motorcycle or ATV. It includes a Touratech shock mount.(URL shown below)

This complete package includes:

Garmin Street Pilot lll

Touratech shock mount

GPS Hood

Beanbag mount for auto use

Garmin Data Card Reader

Garmin Data Card

External Antenna

12V power cable for auto use/speaker

12V power cable for use on MC

Serial Data Cable

Combination Data Power cable

Garmin original Manual

Presently loaded with Southwest Topo Maps

PRICE REDUCED - $200.00. eMAIL [email protected]

This GPS is a true navigation tool. The Garmin and Touratech specs are available at:

https://buy.garmin.com/shop/store/assets/pd...lotIII_spec.pdf

http://www.touratech-usa.com/shop/show.las...24E0BSij1F15189

SPOT on -

I too have a Spot unit. I never go riding without it. It has couple quirks a new user should know about.

1. It works best with the Spot emblem facing the sky. It has to have a clear sky view to work consistently.

2. To put it in the track mode the easiest way is to turn it on, then hold the OK button down until the green light goes out.

In the track mode it sends a message to the satellite every 10 minutes. Occasionally it doesn't catch a satellite flying over and your next track point will be 20 minutes or more out.

You can down load your track to your computer as a GPX file and use is with Garmins Map Scource. You can also load your data to ExpertGPS to see where you've been. There are probably other software programs that you can also use.

Many of the racers in the BAJA race use the Spot to know where there competitors are.

Considering it cost about $158.00 a YEAR for full coverage I consider that a small cost for piece of mind.

Gumball