What did you do with your Grenadier today?

[angstorms]

Headed up again with my son over to Lake City for lunch via Engineer Pass and then back over Cinnamon Pass, few of the sights and and wildlife along the way, did not capture 100's of chipmunks that crossed our paths

 

[Jiman01]

No I meant where does the wire exit out of the vehicle?

From the camera, as you’re looking at it from the pic above, the wire gets tucked into the panel gap in the roof toward the right side of the vehicle.

-At the roof gutter you unscrew the one bolt and remove or loosen the rubber bumper to hide the wire behind it.
-From there it goes down behind the body colored panel (7 screws to loosen the panel IIRC). At the bottom, remove the body side rubber boot and use a hanger or wire fish tape to route the camera wire forward, similar to the “normal” install.

Does that answer your question? LocNar does a much better job of explaining it (with pics) than I can. Check out his build thread.

Build Thread Thread 'Loc Nar's Build'

Dec 7, 2024

It's time for me to start a build thread to help me organize my progress and thoughts on next steps. I'll incorporate hyperlinks to my posts in other threads detailing some of my mods to save time (and because valuable information for others contemplating similar mods will be in those threads).

Pre-mods:

MOD 1: Adding Alu-Cab Gen 3-R tent and 270 degree Shadow Awning (shout out to Asheville Vehicle Outfitters for doing a great job with this!):

MOD 2: Installing Xpel Black Universal Door Sill Guard

MOD 3: Installing Rival...

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One more thing I discovered today at 0430 in the morning….

The cameras default orientation is mounted with “the base” attached to the trim piece above it like we’ve seen in tons of pics. When you flip it over so the base is secured base side down, like on top of your roof, it also flips the orientation making everything on the rear view mirror upside down.

I kinda expected this and it’s pretty easy to find in the menu the option to “flip” the camera, under Rear Cam Flip, which returns everything to normal. I noticed this when I was test fitting in the garage.

What I didn’t expect is that it doesn’t flip right/left…that’s a separate option…so as I’m going down the road in the dark at 0430hrs, it wasn’t so obvious until the first car past me on the right…but in the mirror it appears it’s approaching and passing me on the LEFT!!

The fix is to select the Mirror Flip function. My suggestion is to test the left/right orientation by turning on your blinkers. Seems obvious now but who would have thought flipping the camera orientation wouldn’t also automatically fix left/right

 

[CRH]

Headed up again with my son over to Lake City for lunch via Engineer Pass and then back over Cinnamon Pass, few of the sights and and wildlife along the way, did not capture 100's of chipmunks that crossed our paths
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OK, we get it, you live near some beautiful trails to take your Grenadier and have some fabulous photos of the scenery and wildlife to post on this thread of 'What did you do with your Grenadier today'. If you keep doing this (please do, love the pics), i may have to bring out the big guns to make you all jealous and post photos of what I do with mine. Heavy UK traffic jam's, blocked city streets and yobs on illegal electric bikes running amok.

 

[landmannnn]

OK, we get it, you live near some beautiful trails to take your Grenadier and have some fabulous photos of the scenery and wildlife to post on this thread of 'What did you do with your Grenadier today'. If you keep doing this (please do, love the pics), i may have to bring out the big guns to make you all jealous and post photos of what I do with mine. Heavy UK traffic jam's, blocked city streets and yobs on illegal electric bikes running amok.

I'm UK based, some photos. Maybe not in the UK though!

 

[Logsplitter]

I'm UK based, some photos. Maybe not in the UK though!
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Looks beautiful where is that. I’m trying to come up with ideas for next years travels. So far we’re thinking Southern Africa for the later part of next year but a trip through Eastern Europe next spring inc Montenegro, Albania and Romania. Any ideas most welcome.

 

[CoatingsRcrack]

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Looks good!

 

[Logsplitter]

I decided I would like to see what mine would look like on portal axles. I need a step ladder to get in and out.

 

[Skydance]

I decided I would like to see what mine would look like on portal axles. I need a step ladder to get in and out. View attachment 7902403View attachment 7902404

Definitely not getting in that garage for sure.

 

[Logsplitter]

Definitely not getting in that garage for sure.

Unfortunately when I built that lovely garage I didn’t consider the height of a large 4x4.

 

[landmannnn]

Looks beautiful where is that. I’m trying to come up with ideas for next years travels. So far we’re thinking Southern Africa for the later part of next year but a trip through Eastern Europe next spring inc Montenegro, Albania and Romania. Any ideas most welcome.

Crossing the Pyrenees Spanish side starting at the med. I'm not doing the whole 10 days, plenty of long gravel tracks and some great views.
Not the most adventurous, but with an elderly dog and nervous wife it's a fun enough trip.

 

[Logsplitter]

So today I’ve adapted and fitted a hilift jack mount to the rear ladder of Liberty the Grenadier.
I ordered 2 hilift jack tube mounts , one x Frontrunner Hi-Lift Jack Bracket / Top Mount for roof rack and finally 2 x m8 round bolts. I could have just fitted the jack with just the 2 tube mounts but that didn’t seem substantial enough for me so ordered the frontrunner jack mount for roof rack and adapted that to mount the jack vertically on the ladder. It’s a very solid fix and the base/foot of the jack
can be bolted to the bottom support for extra support and security. You’ll notice the extra nuts on the top fitting bolts. I had to put more thread on the bolts and then ended up stripping the thread so had to pack it out to get a solid fix. Will replace u lots at some point.
Edit that should read 1x front runner jack mount for roof rack !

c.

 

[Logsplitter]

Another job today on my newly made vehicle ramps. Plenty of clearance now to crawl around underneath and inspect everything. I took my underbody protection plates off so that when my Grenadier is at the dealers in a couple of weeks they can change differential and transfer box oils.
I got all guards off bar the front diff guard where one of the Allen key bolts had been rounded off. Not too big a problem with the guard as I managed to take the fixing bracket off on the side where the diff drain plug is, so giving access to drain the diff oil.
Whilst under the vehicle I noticed damage to the Bowden cables and heat shielding , this has been caused by the failing front cv joint that happened a few months back. This should have been replaced in my view as part of the warranty claim when the cv joint of the front prop shaft failed. Also there is oil weeping from the gearbox and again damage had been caused to gearbox thermostat and oil pan by flailing prop shaft. Losing all gearbox oil. A problem there I think so I’ll be getting the dealer to look into this when it’s in for other works at the end of the month

 

[Asnes]

Installed Grenadier USA hood badge and applied rubber molding to front windscreen to help prevent edge chips that turn into cracks …

 

[aircooled]

Yesterday and today, my son and I made the Grenadier work its butt off off road. We towed our M1102 camping trailer to our overnight campsite below Mosquito Pass near Alma, Colorado. The camp elevation was an eye watering 12,100ft! In the morning, we made coffee and left the trailers at camp to play around in the basin around Mosquito Creek, near the London mine. Then we hitched up and pulled both trailers over the top of Mosquito Pass and down into Leadville. The trail, while, not super technical, was in rough shape after winter snows. Much of the higher trail is all shelf road with little to no room to pass.

It was a good workout for the new 285/75/17 KO3s!

 

[Logsplitter]

Alucab lifting roof conversion and awning all now set up and ready to go

 

[bigleonski]

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Did you do a post on this mate?
Would have been great to see the progress step by step.

 

[Logsplitter]

Did you do a post on this mate?
Would have been great to see the progress step by step.

Maybe I ought to collate all what I’m doing or done as a build thread.

 

[Logsplitter]

I forgot to post that last weekend I did a whistle stop tour to Antwerp, Belgium to collect my LRA auxiliary fuel tank and exhaust alteration mods. The tank and exhaust kit was imported into Europe by Desert Foxx of Antwerp Belgium. Desert Foxx is run buy a lovely and knowledgeable gut called Wouter.
What a set up he has there as well as organising and running group 4x4 expeditions worldwide , he has a great workshop facility where they mainly work on Landrovers. The are also MAN/CAT ex army trucks. The workshop is full of classic Defenders ,series Landrovers, Rangerover classics and a forward control Landrover awaiting refurb. They do everything from chassis swaps to new engine and gearboxes and everything in between. There are some amazing and beautiful machines in there. But of most interest to me were the two Grenadiers in his workshop. One of which was PT02 right hand drive prototype purchased from the U.K. to be used for donor parts. In bits was a Grenadier that had been completely forward barrel rolled over Sand Dunes in Morocco and still driven home with the help of a plastic /perspex windscreen. This Grenadier is going to have a complete body swap with the PT02 prototype car. These guys at the workshop will certainly know Grenadier’s inside out when they have finished rebuilding the rolled Grenadier. I didn’t take any photos as I thought it was inappropriate and if the owner wanted put it out there they could themselves. Very impressive though what they intend to do.

 

[Jean Mercier]

I forgot to post that last weekend I did a whistle stop tour to Antwerp, Belgium to collect my LRA auxiliary fuel tank and exhaust alteration mods. The tank and exhaust kit was imported into Europe by Desert Foxx of Antwerp Belgium. Desert Foxx is run buy a lovely and knowledgeable gut called Wouter.
What a set up he has there as well as organising and running group 4x4 expeditions worldwide , he has a great workshop facility where they mainly work on Landrovers. The are also MAN/CAT ex army trucks. The workshop is full of classic Defenders ,series Landrovers, Rangerover classics and a forward control Landrover awaiting refurb. They do everything from chassis swaps to new engine and gearboxes and everything in between. There are some amazing and beautiful machines in there. But of most interest to me were the two Grenadiers in his workshop. One of which was PT02 right hand drive prototype purchased from the U.K. to be used for donor parts. In bits was a Grenadier that had been completely forward barrel rolled over Sand Dunes in Morocco and still driven home with the help of a plastic /perspex windscreen. This Grenadier is going to have a complete body swap with the PT02 prototype car. These guys at the workshop will certainly know Grenadier’s inside out when they have finished rebuilding the rolled Grenadier. I didn’t take any photos as I thought it was inappropriate and if the owner wanted put it out there they could themselves. Very impressive though what they intend to do.

Interesting information, I didn't know this workshop / company !

 

[Elinsblue24]

Camping in the Grenadier over in Rhosniger Anglesey, our dog loved it!!