Well I needed/wanted to get a GPS going on the new Uly so I pulled the Ram mount I had for a handheld style one off my dual sport and ordered up the RAM baseplate for my car's GPS a Garmin Nuvi 205. Once installed, I realized that a) it needed vibration dampening and b) it needed something to waterproof it.

So I found a Pelican box that fit the mount almost exactly and used some old bicycle inner tube to make a rubber gasket/cushion. I used a dremel to take down the ridges on the back of the box, and drilled holes to mount the cradle inside it with the RAM mount on the outside. The rubber on either side of the mount, combined with the RAM arm itself seems to mitigate the vibration quite well and of course, it is totally waterproof.

I haven't drilled the hole for the power yet, I'll wrap that up soon here.

RAM mount and Nuvi plate


Pelican box




Ball attached






Mounted up case open, I was thinking about how I could make something to prop the case partially open with a dark insert to act as a sunshade.


You can see through the clear case easily


RAM stuff is awesome, strong, easy to adjust and best of all cheap. The universal mount was ~$25 and the GPS base was $8, I got the Pelican at the local REI for $20.

Anyway, all in all cheap easy to do, I'm very happy with how it turned out.