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89-ish K5 build. Beat cancer!!! Time for icecream!
- Thread starter jekquistk5
- Start date
3 Link front, leafs in the rear, 2.5" ADS Racing Shocks!
Got more stuff done but not enough. I did order my tires from swetty so I should have them by the weekend. Started on front seat mounting. Built it prerunner style with no bends for ease. With any luck I’ll have everything ready for final welding by next weekend. Still need to do harness bars which is gonna suck.
Dude loving those seats!! Cage work is coming along real nice! Good work!
Thanks dude. I hate when you spend unneeded time on things. Spent 3 hours making the seat mount when I could have just ran a straight bar. Oh well prerunner things.
For the rear seat since it’s just for getting kids into the dunes I think I’ll attach the front mounts to the cage and the rear mounts to the floor. That will help keep the higher of the seat down as well. What’s ck5’s Thoughts on that.
I did that on my rear seat. The mounts are plate and I see zero chance of it going through the floor..
bergerking
1/2 ton status
sure you did
Cool I think I’ll do the same plate it then I can easily attach both the harnesses and that will allow me to put in the car seat latch at the same time.
Depending on how you sit in the seat and your knee height etc I usually like to tilt the seat up some in the front so I have a little support under the thighs and not just the assbones. But that all depends on the actual seat and the mounting height too. You can use wooden blocks under the front to tilt it up a little to see if it feels better or worse.
That was my thoughts as well. The front seats are up like 3 degrees for that reason.
So fancy..
My seats lean back so far people have napped in them on the trail.
Are you going to do some6with the dead node at the bottom of the B pillar where the side down X bar hits? At least gusset to the seat bar. Just my 2c.
Are you going to do some6with the dead node at the bottom of the B pillar where the side down X bar hits? At least gusset to the seat bar. Just my 2c.
Yah I planned on gusseting it. Probably will order some a and a taco gussets. Was going to continue it down to the seat bars but it will still be “dead”
But it will be a triangle. So not as dead.
Front seats done.
Rear harness bar done, a spreader and down bar done. Just need to do front harness mounts and bracing between center of b to where the a pillar lands. In the home stretch as far as the cage is concerned. I plan On picking some 1.25” tube and making gussets to make grumpy happy. I resused a tube I cut off green thing. That makes me feel good for some reason.
Gussets should be the same diameter as the tubes they are attaching to.
Ugh fine!
So the rest of your cage and stuff looks so awesome to the point where I feel like I should mention this.
This isn't up to par with the rest of your work, the cross tubes are intersected 4 times by perpendicular tubes with open ends? It would look better if the front and back seat cross tubes had bent ends going down to the lower side cage tubes. And the 4 front to back tubes were notched to intersect those. No open ends, nice clean look, curved outer ends so you don't catch your toe when you are climbing out of the back seat, like the rest of everything you've done.
Sorry to be picky, I do the same thing to myself.
I hear you heath. I plan on capping the ends when the cage is out and smoothing the corners. At this point the harness bars are landing on the back tube already, and I would have to do a tremendous amount of work to rework that. Even with the seat sliders, back seat passengers will have to climb through between the front seats. The harness bar and the seats do not slide forward enough to make that a viable option. I have some 1/8" plate I plan on running between those two bars as a "step" . That should help with the toe catching.
