KAVAL Accessories Unlimited Augm2-L Stainless Steel Hood Channel Mobile Antenna Mount For Gmc & Chevy

Product fit to my satisfaction.

Well fabricated product that bolts right up to the left hood mount. It was a little bent when I mounted it, but was easily straightened with my hands. It is sturdy and supports my HQ-27 antenna on the highway, no problem. It looks good balancing my CB antenna with my AM-FM antenna on the right side of the hood. No rust (at least yet) after driving around the rust belt for about a year. No issues with ground plane.

So first off the unit is really well built. it's stainless steel, not heavy but thick and well made. I can't bend it by hand at all. The clearances are very tight in the install location and look great after installed. Now with that said I will say go buy spare washers and nuts. Buy a couple bolts as well, I'll wait for you to come back, they're m6x1.0 if my memory serves. In my process of installing this I lost 4 washers and 2 nuts. I have bearclaw size hands and even my girlfriend with teeny tiny hands still couldn't do this for me. There aren't any instructions for install but it's pretty straight forward, there's a hole that the main hole in the mount lines up with, put the bolt through and tighten it down. Also ground it. What I did for a ground was I ground down the paint behind the mounting plate. contact is full and testing from the mount to my hood I have a 0.01 ohm resistance, not too bad if I do say so myself. After install it's on rock solid and will not move. Now the reasoning for 4 stars. First you need to install your cabling onto the mount before install ortherwise it'll be impossible to do so after installed. If you're using a firestik ring cable mount it to the top position, not bottom. Mounting it to the bottom pushes it against the plastic hinge cover and I think causes it to bow and the antenna is askew. Mine is bottom mounted and I'm not losing another few washers and nuts and about a half hour of time to move the cable, besides it looks cleaner from below. I can deal with the leaning to the side. How I installed: 1) install your cabling onto the mount 2) pick a ground, again I used a Dremel with a sanding spindle to remove the paint from behind where the mount touched. You could used the included grounding screw mount 3) slide the mount in to verify it fits, I'd also recommend determining the cable routing now so you know which way you're going to run it, FYI, at least in my GMC, there are no rubber grommets that go from the engine bay to the cab on the driver side, so you'll either need to drill one (I wouldn't do that) or route it through your door jam (which I did). Both have their good and bad points, it's your call on what to do. 4) slide the bolt and washer on from the side closest to the fender through the mount and hole on the chassis 5) use a pair of needle nose pliers, curved needle nose pliers might make it even easier, to slide on the second washer 6) use 2 box end 10mm wrenches, tape closed one side of one of them and place the nut in the well, this will help you align the nut to the bolt 7) get both hands in there, put the 10mm bolt on the nut and turn the bolt until the nut has threaded on a decent amount 8) snug up the mount (I used a ratcheting 10mm wrench, made it a bit easier) NOTE: I was unable to get my low profile wrench and 10mm socket in there to tighten it down, you might have better luck than I though. This whole process took me about a half hour to do. Overall: Pros: Looks good installed great build quality Almost looks like a stock install Cons: Really hard to install Have to mount your cabling before installing the mount very specific way to mount your cables included ground connection though functional looks bad did I mention how hard it is to install? Seriously it's a challenge no information or instructions whatsoever With all that said, I think the time was worth it and I'd recommend it or buy it again.

Worked exactly as advertised. Took some time to carefully mount and it does just barely touch the plastic above where you mount it. I thought one small bolt wasn't going to be enough - but it utilizes the flat portion against the body to prevent any excess movement. As other reviews state, the small nut/bolt is challenging to get in properly, so be prepared for some contortions to get it in properly. I am running a 4 ft fireblad with a spring flex mount. Running up as high as 130mph one time when I wasn't being very smart....it held fine and didn't distort. I regularly drive in the 70-80mph range and it has done exactly what I wanted - mounting my antenna out of the way and in an area with good reception.

hard to get it on, had to do a little grinding on the bottom for it to sit right because of my truck not the part and drilling the hole out to take a larger nut and bolt, because bigger is sometimes better, but it works looks and works great. make sure you have the cables ( antenna and ground) and antenna base mount installed first, there isn't enough room to do it after you install it. took about an hour to with everything i did.

i bought this and a 5 foot firestick. i was afraid that this might be enough to wrangle that big of an antenna. (insert pun here). but after a few months of banging the antenna on trees and parking structures its held pretty well. i did replace the mounting bolt with a grade 10 i had laying around. im not sure what the bolt that came with it was but i knew what that big ol antenna it was going to take some abuse....

There's no bracket to mount this too on my truck.

This mount is great. If you have a 2002-2008 Chevy/GMC truck and want to get a cb. This mount is for you. No holes to drill. The mount goes on the driver side of the hood. There is a little hole that you can bolt it to. I will post a video soon to show how it is mounted. It was confusing at first. Great product. I looks like the CB antenna came with my truck from the factory. P.S. You must use coax that has the ring on the antenna end. There is not enough clearance for the regular connector. For example I used the Fire-Flex 9ft coax with fire ring.