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Sean · **Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:39 pm

Guest · **Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2005 6:58 pm

Way cool Sean. I really want to check that place out. Thanks.

Tokyojoe · **Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2005 8:17 pm

Looks awesome. Did you bust your turn signal lens there?

I hope you don't plan to do any large rock crawling with that antenna mount where it is located.

The mud looks like a lot of fun.

Sean · **Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2005 8:20 pm

I busted my lens a few weeks ago in the U.P.

No rocks there, only dunes and a small area of mud. (were you refering to the CB antenna, flag, or stock fm/am antenna?)

Sean · **Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2005 8:21 pm

Now that I think about it, that wouldnt be a bad place for a fiberglass CB whip... minus the clearance...

Guest · **Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2005 8:30 pm

I'm guessing Joe was referring to the flag. I noticed all vehicles had the same flag mount. I take it the flags are courtesy of the park?

Sean · **Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2005 9:28 pm

hardly... you have to purchase them, approx 20 dollars. It is required that any vehicle entering the park has a flag... saftey reasons... so that if you are going up a dune, and someone is comming up the otherside twoards you, you have a better chance to see them.
Since there was nowhere to drill in the lib, the guy at the shop told me after about 15 minutes of messing around that i was 'out of luck'... so i looked at it a little more carefully and made myself a mount out of three different brackets. i can take pictures of those if anyone is interested.

Tokyojoe · **Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2005 11:03 pm

You might want to check with the guys that have made brackets for their antenna's that attach to the spare tire mount. Higher sitting and won't be an issue when you approach obstacles.

Burchie · **Posted:** Thu Sep 08, 2005 11:39 pm

But.... Everyone had them on the front.

Tokyojoe · **Posted:** Fri Sep 09, 2005 12:52 am

Look at where it sits on the front of his KJ. Look at his tow hooks. I scraped my tow hooks in Moab. There wouldn't be anything left of that mount if I had it there.

Also, if everyone drove their KJ off a 1,000 ft cliff, would you drive off it too?

Guest · **Posted:** Fri Sep 09, 2005 3:30 pm

Tokyojoe wrote:

Look at where it sits on the front of his KJ. Look at his tow hooks. I scraped my tow hooks in Moab. There wouldn't be anything left of that mount if I had it there.

Also, if everyone drove their KJ off a 1,000 ft cliff, would you drive off it too?

Granted the bracket is low but do you see anything even romotely resembling MOAB in these photo's?

None the less, I'm sure Sean and others appreciate the fyi for Moab & rockclimbing.

Burchie · **Posted:** Fri Sep 09, 2005 3:46 pm

I don't know about the cliff. I like to let natural selection run it's course. But my point is / was that it must be a regulation to use that specific, regulated area, and it seams to work for their purpose. That is why "everyone" has one on the front and not the back.

I was born at night, but not last night

Burchie

Tokyojoe · **Posted:** Fri Sep 09, 2005 6:42 pm

I just thought it was a permanent mounting for the cb antenna.

You don't need something to LOOK like Moab to cause a front end scrape. Those mud holes can hide rocks and sudden drop offs.

Just trying to be helpful with antenna mounting safety.

Burchie · **Posted:** Fri Sep 09, 2005 6:53 pm

I see. Sorry about the confusion.

For every day, general use, your right. That is a DUMB place for a CB mount and even a flag mount. That's why I assumed it was a mandatory place for it. I can't think why everyone would mount their flags on the front. In SoCal, we mount ours on the back off the spare tire, bumper, ect. like you said. (I had a picture around here somewhere)

Again I apologize.

Burchie

Sean · **Posted:** Fri Sep 09, 2005 8:45 pm

Yes, it is a manditory location on the front bumper. Most people with TJ's could mount straight to the bumper, but since mine was plastic, the only location that I could find that was on the front of the vehicle was in that location.

Neatus · **Posted:** Sat Sep 10, 2005 1:18 am

Your pics rock Sean...good stuff

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