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He means a sencing wire that would connect to the instrument panel light circuit to auto dim the radio backlights for night time driving. Just like your aftermarket radio head unit does.
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Your talking to an electronic idiot. I have never changed out the OE equipment on my auto's , I have a hard time with my GPS that was given to me by my deceased son. He was always giving me something electronic like CB's etc. I didn't install them because I just wasn't interested. Now that I'm into overlanding I'm finding out I need some communication devises etc. The forums are helping me a lot, there are some genesis's on here from what I've seen. LOL
I would like to know what you were doing to need an alignment every time in the jeep. My TJ has never been out, and it's done some heavy rock crawling.
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Are you talking about connecting the radio lights to the dash lite dimmer control ?
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Feel free to hit me up via private message with any electronic questions. Most of its pretty easy for me.
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He dosent baby it in the rock piles or logs in his path. The good thing is he knows and fixes his worn parts. I just changed out one tie rod end on my dodge truck with 125,000 miles on it. I dont understand how only one side was shot. the other side looks equally old but has no play at all.
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in short yes, long answer is hat the dimmer control on he dash is only part of he equation, HazMatt wants he UHF Radio to self dim when he urns the lights on just like his stock car stereo does, then adjust the brightness with the dash light dimmer control to match the rest of the dash lights.
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Thanks but I wouldnt wish my LRD2 electronic problems anyone. That 3 Amigo's thing is a nightmare.
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Not exactly, but close. The dimmer control is variable, and I haven't encountered radios (specifically head units) that can take that variable voltage and convert it to a variably dimmed display. For me, it was wishful thinking, because the Yaesu HAM radio I installed doesn't have this type of input unfortunately. I won't have it on all the time anyway, unless I need to get ahold of someone. Like @Slimpartywagon as well, private message us if you need help. I've got a good bit of experience professionally with 12-volt electronics.
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All of my rigs wear out the right side. But my tie rods are still good at 240k. My wife's JKU on the other hand (not babied, but also not beet as hard as the TJ), eats front end parts. My buddy's Ram absolutely destroys the left side.
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EDIT: I meant aftermarket head units in the second sentence.
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Beginning to understand what you both are talking about. I'm going to stay as simple as my pea brain will accept. Sounds like what you added to your rig at least gives you most of what you wanted.
Just a long shot guess but I wonder if the TR ends wear more on one side than the other because of the diff location. If the diff is on the driver side it wears on the left and visaversa ? My Old 67 Bronco wore out free wheeling hubs and bearing like crazy but never had a TR end failure or wheel hub bearing failures.
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Every time out was, I admit, a bit of an exaggeration. At the time I was running 255/85/16s with a 2” OME suspension. Every 50,000 miles I could count on replacing the front lower control arm bushings and the front axle universals. Every 70-75 thousand miles the rest of the suspension bushings. Alignment? At least every 10,000 miles, and I wasn’t beating on it.. I’d wager that your TJ needs an alignment right now. One hard bump or pothole on the highway is all it takes.
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