got the seats in the bed (pics)

[pillen140]

How about eyebolts screwed in to the bed at each end of the seat with a long bungee strap hooked in to each eyebolt? That would work right? no, I'm not serious.

hmm, maybe... twine? the nylon stuff though, not that cheap hemp crap!!

 

[Mutant Pony]

He already said that he was adding head rests. With the head rests installed it would be safer than the front seats in a head on collision. In a Ranger rollover, the back of the cab usually doesn't collapse, The front goes right down to the dash. Once again, safer in the back. The only down side is that you would have less protection from flying debris. In a rear end collision, It could be bad. You could get hit by lightening walking down the road too!!!

 

[Dangeranger3]

hmm, maybe... twine? the nylon stuff though, not that cheap hemp crap!!

I trust the natural stuff before nylon, especially in the back of a truck. I know this a farce, but seriously, organic before produced.

 

[pillen140]

I trust the natural stuff before nylon, especially in the back of a truck. I know this a farce, but seriously, organic before produced.

i dont think you are factoring in the weatherproof-ness of nylon... are you?

 

[Insanejughead]

i dont think you are factoring in the weatherproof-ness of nylon... are you?

Think about the environment man... Hahaha..jk.

I like what MutantPony said about lightning. I also believe that if it's my time to die, then the Lord Almighty will pull me out of this world no matter how brutal or quick it may be.

 

[pillen140]

Think about the environment man... Hahaha..jk.

its all fun and games until you crappy hemp twine, which you used for a seatbelt, in the seat you welded to the back of your pickup truck fails because it rained the night before.... youll be pretty damn glad you paid that 4 extra cents for the nylon.... wont you!




................................................... jk.....................................................

but he could have just soldered the seat in!!! welding is overrated... i hope nobody takes me serious!

 

[chittybangbang]

Ryan, sorry but I have one thing to add, as a firefighter I see wrecks with people that were riding in the back of a truck all the time. These wrecks are usually critical, and the driver always says he "was being careful because of the people in back." I can only imagine the body count in a wreck when the driver thought that the rear passengers were "safe" by some cobbled mess he calls seatbelts. save your friends lives, sell your truck.

+1

 

[Dddaviso7]

My neighbor had a 1991 Ranger with a cap. And he put 2 bench seats with seat belts, facing each other in the back. He also had a few subwoofers and 6x9's back there. It was fun to cruise in, but I'd never go back there on the freeway or any random trip.

Just my 2 cents. haha

 

[pillen140]

how about making pvc pipe roll bars?

 

[Jim Oaks]

Make sure you use the PVCR pipe. It's specially formulated for roll bars.

 

[LIMA BEAN]

Hey Jed Clampett had a couch in the back of his and made it all the way to californi with out so much as a scratch on elle may or granny.

 

[michowski]

At the least put a hoop over the seat.

 

[Redneckryder]

sure---i tell you guys to calm down, nothing---jim says it---everyone is nice. i feel soooo un-loved!!!!!

 

[koda6966]

sure---i tell you guys to calm down, nothing---jim says it---everyone is nice. i feel soooo un-loved!!!!!

I LOVE YOU!

hahahaha.

 

[ryan]

Ok - here's some thoughts from a safety person. AKA 10 reasons why I think you'll kill someone with this because of your lack of even the most basic design considerations:

1. Your seat belts will fray because you didn’t think far enough ahead to put a grommet in the bed. Fraying will be the most likely way that a seat belt would fail. I’d also love to see your actual mounting for the seat belts to see how far out of the mounting guidelines you are.

2. Single shear mounting of the seat bracket. If you’re going to do something stupid, do it in double shear

3. Judging from the picture, the welds on the brackets look like they’re sitting on top of the plate with limited penetration. I’m also guessing that the welds are bad because you didn’t even take the time to finish grind the bracket itself, so why take the time to weld well

4. In a roll over, you would decapitate your passengers. Best case failure is that they’re only severely injured. Those are not odds I would like to play with.

5. The bed has no structural integrity in a side impact, unlike the cab

6. It’s nothing like the seat in a supercab, which has to go through laboratory testing and meet minimum requirements from consensus organizations like ANSI. Rear supercab seats also have a shoulder belt IIRC. This is what would make the biggest difference in a collision when you’re sitting in a real engineered seat. A lap belt is only marginally better than having no seat belt at all.

7. Knots in the seatbelts are not good

8. No rear mounting points for the seat. Again - if you’re going to do something stupid, at least over-build it to the point where obvious failure points become less likely.

9. The bed sheet metal is much worse than the cab sheet metal for things like mounting – it’s not built for it, and you’ve decreased the integrity of the bed just a little bit more. I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if the mounting points end up failing because the bed, not because the brackets themselves fail

10. Frame flex offroad will do some very interesting things to the way that the seats are mounted. I’ve seen ranger beds to some really crazy things, even doing some mild offroading.