Monday, September 17, 2012
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Custom Car Seat Mounts
Since the Land Rover Disco 2 does not have a good way to mount car seats, we had to take matters into our own hands...
"Eye Nut" from the best hardware store in the world, McMaster-Carr. Low profile ARP (www.arp-bolts.com) 3/8 stainless bolt is threaded through a huge fender washer in the wheel arch and up into the wheel nut. That way there is not a stud poking down towards the tire. Then used a good 2 inch ratchet strap and removed the short strap end on this side to get the ratchet where i wanted it when the seat is in place.
Took the back seat out of the truck (wow was that hard to handle!) and pulled the seat apart. Removed the stock seat belt latch bolt and ran it through a carabiner to allow the other ratchet straps to be connected. The carabiner can also be pushed back out of the way when it is not needed.
Did the same on the other side. Now that the 6 year old is in a booster, we got her a great set of cutom 5-point harnesses from our friends at Wesco Performance. They are the best! http://www.wescoperformance.com/ They made the belts in the length I wanted and made the lap belts reversed so I can pull up on them to strap her in, instead of trying to pull down. The belts work perfectly with a basic booster bottom.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Storage Finally Done!
Here it is, only took like 2 years with everything else in life getting in the way. Still need to make a couple of stops in the back of everything to keep things a little quieter, but overall I am very happy with it. Based on a slightly modified Tuffy box for a Jeep. Added cladding, built the mini storage compartment which holds 4(!) folding chairs. Then built the custom pull out shelf using slides from McMaster plus lots of aluminum and stainless fasteners. Finished it off with the different latches to hold things closed, and open. Really a stupid amount of work, but that's the way it goes.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
New Roll Cage & Headliner for the Super Rover
So, after many months of thinking about doing this, and being somewhat discouraged about what I have seen out there, I decided to take the plunge. I am posting this stuff in case there is anyone else out there that wants to tackle this, or if I can answer any questions for anyone crazy enough to go down this road.A huge THANK YOU goes out to my buddy Brian Smith, Fabricator Extraordinaire, who if he never sees another Rover in his whole life, it will be too soon. I think he might listen to me a little closer next time when I tell him how cramped something is. This started as a trade because he owed me a small favor, now I owe him a huge one.The whole cage is 1 3/4 .120 wall 4130 chromoly. We used almost 90 feet total. The cage is fully tig welded around all of the joints, and wherever possible, stitched to the body itself, so it won't rattle. We really wanted to make sure that anything we did didn't impede the already ridiculously tight openings in the truck, or make it any less civilized. After pulling the whole truck apart, Brian was able to fit most of the cage behind the headliner, including the gussets.Since the headliner was falling down when we started, it seemed like a good time to fix that too. Special Thanks to Eric Thorsen from the Upholstery Shop for fixing up the headliner, which was also way more work than it should have been. Not to mention the scavenger hunt to find the perfect material, and enough of it.Start to finish was 3 ½ weeks total.Anyway, here is a link to the pics with a couple of notes.
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