Glad to have you back for another episode of the Truck Show podcast. I'm your host Holman,

and we are recording from our Podshed studio in lovely Huntington Beach, California.

On this episode, we welcome back our friends Andy and Mercedes Lilienthal to talk about their latest adventure,

this time the Alken 5000, and in a vehicle that's raised a lot of eyebrows in the industry,

so we can't wait to share this one with you. And yeah, it's been another busy week of getting things prep for Easter Jeep Safari. That's coming up soon, and I made a trip down to Bill Stein for a killer shock upgrade on the adventure Jeep, so we'll cover that in a future episode as well as adding the apex designs air Links, pneumatic sway bar N-links.

Just another batch of odds and ends trying to get this thing ready to go.

And I think I figured out the most awesome Starlink setup ever for a Jeep Wrangler JL,

especially for a hardtop.

So with the hardtop being fiberglass, obviously doesn't block the signal, right?

Well, if you look on the back roll bar of a Wrangler, there's like two bungs on either side.

Those are used for the soft top.

And if you don't have a soft top, they're just open holes sitting there.

So it turns out it's the same size as a, I guess it would be a 3.816 NC thread.

So I threaded that with a tap and I bought a one and a half inch, I guess the size class D ram ball that was threaded to a 3-8-16.

Screwed it into the back, so that was perfect.

And then I got their swivel mount.

It's like a medium arm that pivots in the middle. and they're starting mini mount, which snaps into the dish. And I basically have that up out of the way. It holds the dish right up against the ceiling. I left about an inch for air gap because it does get warm from either the ceiling or from being used. And it's perfect. It doesn't rattle, doesn't move, doesn doesn't make noise it's not in the way of anything

and i'm like super stoked because i made this really simple mount it's totally hidden from the outside uh the fastest i've had in the city which was pretty good i'll test it later this week

when i'm driving across the desert but in the city i got 130 megabytes per second download speed and i don't know

it was like 15 or 16 up while driving so that was super rad and didn't have to have any ugly mount on

the outside doesn't announce i have starlink it doesn't whatever just sits there i plug it in boom it's on

and as i'm driving or camping or whatever it's going to be perfect so super stoked on that don't have it up out in the air stream it's it's hidden and whatever it whatever, it's going to be perfect. So super stoked on that.

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