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Will is going to Uwharrie national park in NC to drive over stuff with a bunch of other Isuzu nuts. To ensure he gets the full on experience, he had to install a CB into the truck, both for redneck asthetics and to listen in on the lively Isuzu banter. Here's the install.
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To power the CB you have to get a 12 volt feed. To get a 12 volt feed you either have to tap an existing wire, or just run a new one to the battery. After consulting with the Isuzu Guru's online, it appeared that the "smart" thing to do was to run a fresh line to the battery. The easiest place to do that from is this little hole in the firewall on the drivers side. Note the fancy blue cable ties keeping everything nice and neat.
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The Gurus also said if you are going to go through the trouble of running a whole new line, you might as well put a fuse box on the end of it, so you can run more stuff than just the CB. I picked up this 6 slot fuse box at Advanced Auto for 8 bucks, and went to town.
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Note the lack of installation instructions here. Turns out that the fuse box provided is only half the equation. It only has one binding post for a hot wire. You must supply your own post for the ground. Took me a little bit to figure that out, but once I did, it wasn't too hard to just tie all the black wires together and wrap 'em in electrical tape.
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Here's the beginnings of the install for the CB hookup. It's a fush mount in the center console. I also mounted the fuse box there. The center console is obscenely easy to get off - there's only 4 screws holding it in, and there's plenty of room underneath to put stuff - including the CB power supply, the fuse box, and an additional DC outlet I stuffed in there while I was at it.
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Some custom (de)fabrication was required to get the mount to work right - the intent of the hardware provided is that you'd cut a square out in the dash, and screw this plate on the OUTSIDE of the dash, stuff the cable through, then put the rubber grommet around it to secure it. Since I wanted this to look less like a bolted on accessory, and more like it belonged, I put the plate behind the console, and then pushed it though a round hole drilled in the thing. The result is a much cleaner looking mount.
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Here's a shot of the fuse box installed and wired up. The second hookup is for the DC outlet in the center console. I drilled holes in the floor under the console, then screwed it to that.
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To get the antenna hookup and the power cables into the console, I ran them under the carpet to the shift boot, then from there over to the drivers side floor area, then up to the firewall pass through. I'm a little concerned that those wires will rub on the metal shift boot mounting brackets, but they'll do for now.
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Here's the CB mounted on the dash. This was a simple "screw the hangar bracket to the dash" affair, and it looks like it was meant to go there. The CB I used was the Cobra 75WXST Weatherband CB Radio, an all in one unit that has the radio built into the handset. It was a lot easier to put in than trying to find a place to stuff a full sized CB, and looks pretty good here if I do say so myself.
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This is a close up on the center console. After everything was put back together again, it's not quite stock looking, but it's not too bad.
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Here's the hookup now that everything's put back together again. The handset can be unscrewed from the outlet, leaving just the flush mounted outlet in the center console.
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While in there, I put in another power outlet in the center console. You never know when you might need MORE POWER.
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