Now that being said, that Gangster lean back how's that gona work with your harness hoops right behind the seat?
To be honest, I'm not sure yet...
I have a couple of ideas for the back that I just haven't moved on yet.
One idea is to use some disco's on a full "X", with the addition of a harness bar. That would be 6 disco's on that plan. The thing is, I really don't want much of a bar back there for 90% of the time. When I go to BB of something else where the possibilities of really doing something stupid is there, sure, I'd like the bar. But for general driving around, it sure would be a pain in the ass for the back seat folks.
The other is just using some of the Corbeau retractable 2" harness system. I'm kinda leaning towards this option right now.
http://www.corbeau.com/products/harness_belts/2-inch_retractable_harness_belts/
On to bigger and better things. How about a little seat mounting.
Spent the better part of this weekend with 2x4's, bricks, 6x6's and just about everything else that I could find in the garage to prop up the seats so I could find the right height for them. This seriously took along time. Finally after I had everyone and their brother sitting in the seats, I came up with a height.
With this height, I ran into problems right away. The seat sliders that I bought raise the seat by 1.75". That meant that the seat would have to sit as low as possible, to give ample head room for the cage.
Ended up using 1.5 for my seat bars and even coped the tabs around the bars to bring it down some more.
Anyways, here is what I came up with.
Add some bricks....
From here is got a little tricky. I really wanted to make some kind of super console like Ryoken's. I made the main center section to build off of first with some 1.75 legs heading towards the dash. Of coarse they wouldn't work with the doubler shifter in the way, so I bent them up to give me some ideas on what I was going to build next and how it would look.
Then the pain in the butt rear legs were made.
I was going to run four bars, two one each side under the seats to mount them to. These were going to run from the front of the truck to the back type of thing. With how low the seat bars needed to be, there just wasn't enough room for those so I landed the seats on top of what I had.
My bud who helps me a lot on the weekends jumped in to see how much head room we had and where the line of site would be. Turned out pretty nice for a 6' 2" guy.
Then my wife jumped in to try out the sliders. They worked perfect. At the angle I set the seats up at. The more you go forward, the more you go up.
Now it was time for me. One thing that I figured out quick was that the super console would't work out. Even if I spent the cash on the cable shifters and squeezed the bars together towards the dash, there just isn't enough room for my legs. It drove me nuts just sitting there with it rubbing. I couldn't imagine it for a four day trip.
and my veiw. It worked out nice where I'm direct in the middle of the WS.
I still need to get the pass side slider, but all came out pretty good
Seat to door room.
and one for Greg.
All in all, I learned that the sliders, although nice, are a pain with the 1.75" they take up. I will need to use disco's on the seat portion as the bars sit too low for the cage to slide out now.
My 1st gen, won't be getting a center console either. Now I need to figure out if I'm going to run the Art Carr shifter or use the existing?? I really don't think that there is enough room for the existing with the headers and tube down there, so I might have built myself in to a spot..
