Transfer Seat Part 2

[nvrstuk]

NASTY.... I am SOOOOoooo glad it sounds like you are on the mend and will be OK! That looks worse than I could have imagined.

Antibiotics are great things but I'll bet 9/10 people have no idea about the side effects. They wipe out your gut for sure. I only had a really bad tooth infection that wouldn't go away for 4 months (it's too close to what's left of my brain) lol and I was repeatedly put on stronger and stronger antibiotics.... messed my gut up.

I went on some pro-biotics for 9 months and back to normal. There's a real difference between pro-biotics too... marketing.

Glad you're on the mend and the fingers are better. Man- you dodged a bullet.

Got a friend who had to have his foot amputated because he got a small scratch on his toe. His wife is an RN and cleaned it really well... infection crept in and to save his life they had to amputate.

 

[rydog1130]

NASTY.... I am SOOOOoooo glad it sounds like you are on the mend and will be OK! That looks worse than I could have imagined.

Antibiotics are great things but I'll bet 9/10 people have no idea about the side effects. They wipe out your gut for sure. I only had a really bad tooth infection that wouldn't go away for 4 months (it's too close to what's left of my brain) lol and I was repeatedly put on stronger and stronger antibiotics.... messed my gut up.

I went on some pro-biotics for 9 months and back to normal. There's a real difference between pro-biotics too... marketing.

Glad you're on the mend and the fingers are better. Man- you dodged a bullet.

Got a friend who had to have his foot amputated because he got a small scratch on his toe. His wife is an RN and cleaned it really well... infection crept in and to save his life they had to amputate.

Yeah all my years as a pharmacist saved this hand, I was trying hard to not end up with the colitis by taking probiotics. I had to be on clindamycin as A it was cheap and kept me from getting an IV but the bad side it’s notorious for causing gut issues. Anyways thanks for the kind words man, I appreciate you!

 

[El Kabong]

Wow! That's some infection. Glad to hear you're doing better.

 

[DirtDonk]

Yowza rydog! That’s a lot to deal with. I think you can be completely forgiven for not spending much time out in the garage and typing updates for the last couple of months!
Soon as you’re able to get back to it though, get right on it.

 

[rydog1130]

Yowza rydog! That’s a lot to deal with. I think you can be completely forgiven for not spending much time out in the garage and typing updates for the last couple of months!
Soon as you’re able to get back to it though, get right on it.

Thank you bud! My goal is to finish my truck project so I can drive it and put off all my other projects off for a while and just have fun with my family this summer!

 

[rydog1130]

Got back in the shop this past weekend! My buddy Nate and my Son Wyatt helped out and we knocked out a few things in 5 hours! We lined up the seat on the transfer base and marked our holes, drilled them and welded in the threaded inserts. This took the longest for some reason. We had to make sure everything was square and there was clearance for the four link parallel bars that lower the base. Then we fitted the collapsible steering shaft and hooked back up the linkage. The 2” shortened column and mod to the linkage arm on the column works fantastic. Next we tried to toss some spacers in between the roll bar where it’s supposed to be tied to the frame but there’s just wasn’t enough space to slide it in with all the seam welds and panels. I thought about maybe getting some independent 1” thick spacers for each bolt but I don’t think that would be structural safe if there was an accident so we punted that project. Once it’s warm out and the other cars are off the hoist will put it up on there and cut the lower support off of the frame and revolve it higher up so the plates sandwich together correctly. Lastly, we took a look at the shift rails on the transfer case and found there was enough room to cut the slot needed to install the twin sticks. I bought this long cut off wheel tool from harbor freight and it was perfect for cutting that slot. All that left now is to mount my rollers under the beam that pushes the seat out for extra support, paint the base, mount the seat and hooked up the electric to run this unit. I’m just hoping at this point there’s not a lot of flex in it and no other engineering has to go into it !

 

[rydog1130]

Went back out today and had my dad mount my support rollers. This is there to help support the arm once it’s fully extended out of the vehicle. I may replace it with two strips of the plastic you see at the end. Those are there to help stabilize the arm from moving side to side when transferring in and out of the seat. Hoping to get back out there tomorrow and get the seat base and four link back in!

 

[stout22]

Looks like its full steam ahead!
Keep at it and hope to see you and your family at another Bronco event soon.

 

[rydog1130]

Looks like its full steam ahead!
Keep at it and hope to see you and your family at another Bronco event soon.

Yeah I have it in now and getting some flex but I think I have it figured out.

 

[rydog1130]

Ok update, the whole system is in minus the power and the actual seat. I am getting some minimal flex when I have my dad sit on it but I think I have 2 solutions to fix this. I need to sandwich my four link with bars on both sides. The top one will be no issue but the bottom one may need to be thinner or have a notch in it so that it doesn’t come into contact with the main arm that pushes the seat out and in. The other fix is that I need to make the parallel bars an inch longer so that I can extend my actuator in order to give the lift some extra vertical clearance if the extra bars don’t totally eliminate the tiny play I have. So right now I’m just going to draw up some new parallel bars and have my neighbor Todd cut them out for me. Hopefully this is it … lol

 

[rydog1130]

Got the new parts made! I need to get some paint and a few extra bronze bushings and washers and hopefully I can have it together tomorrow to see if it solves my problems! Wish me luck!

 

[rydog1130]

Well I got the new pieces in and it definitely firmed it up plus I have some extra vertical lift in the vehicle to clear my floor pan so it slides in easier. I did notice that the two post my seat mounts to are welded in slightly pointing down, not sure how that happened but I’ll fix that hopefully this week! It’s hard to see in the pictures but it’s about a 1/4” lower on the end. Overall I have about 13.5” of up and down travel so getting in should be pretty easy

 

[rydog1130]

Getting closer! The twin stick is in and works flawlessly! I made a cover plate and bought some faux carbon fiber wrap to dress it up. Sunday was a big day of getting things back together. Cleaned up all the wiring under the truck. My dad 2 years ago wired up my power seats and had used wire nuts in the process. I’m like dad this is a moving vehicle you trying to burn this thing to the ground? lol also rerouted all my speaker wires to the AMP and ran the power leads to the control box! Even got the motor that powers the in/out movement mounted and wired. Then we had to cut the seat supports and bend them up a bit and re weld them. Thank god for harbor freight sawzall blades! Then tossed some paint on it! It took a few minutes but after checking all the safety fuses in place and replacing them we got it to work! Check out the you tube link to see it work!

 

[rydog1130]

We’re almost done with this thing! This past weekend I was about ready to sell my bronco lol! The up and down works flawless. The in/out not so much! Well it worked good for an awhile then I think the window motor that powers it got fatigued. My gear wasn’t catching and would spin so we tried to reposition it so it would grab better but put to tight and we stripped out the seating that the gear sits in, this was when I felt like giving up but instead we just moved on to some other things. I had made some dense foam blocks to cover up the gaps from the seat mechanism in my trans tunnel. We placed those and ran all my speaker wires back through so that’s all set. Just need to hook up my amp and put my passenger seat back in, I started looking into alternative ways for that seat to slide in and out. One idea was to make the inner part of that slide like one giant actuator using an internal threaded rod but that would take some time to reconfigure. Then while searching motors to power that system I ran across these garage door motors. These things are way more beefier and should get the job done! So hopefully next weekend we can get that in and be done with it!

 

[rydog1130]

Now I jut have to get it to work this good with my fat butt on it!

 

[bronkenn]

Looking good Ryan!

 

[SLOWnEASY]

We’re almost done with this thing! This past weekend I was about ready to sell my bronco lol! The up and down works flawless. The in/out not so much! Well it worked good for an awhile then I think the window motor that powers it got fatigued. My gear wasn’t catching and would spin so we tried to reposition it so it would grab better but put to tight and we stripped out the seating that the gear sits in, this was when I felt like giving up but instead we just moved on to some other things. I had made some dense foam blocks to cover up the gaps from the seat mechanism in my trans tunnel. We placed those and ran all my speaker wires back through so that’s all set. Just need to hook up my amp and put my passenger seat back in, I started looking into alternative ways for that seat to slide in and out. One idea was to make the inner part of that slide like one giant actuator using an internal threaded rod but that would take some time to reconfigure. Then while searching motors to power that system I ran across these garage door motors. These things are way more beefier and should get the job done! So hopefully next weekend we can get that in and be done with it!
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Stick with it you're almost there. I for one am looking forward to the day you post pictures of it all working.

 

[rydog1130]

Been a few days but what the saying 1 step forward then 5 back or something? Well, I completely removed the whole system out of the truck. Something just was right. The slides were hanging up about 3/4 of the way out. It was could get some resistance then at about 8/10 of the way out it would get even stiffer and harder to extend the slides and I’m like what the hell? Sooo, we took it apart kinda glad i designed this thing to be taken apart. We removed the housing that hold ms the slides and arm that pushes the seat out and took it apart to inspect the slides. Independently when not hooked up the slides seemed to work flawlessly. Overall they look good,straight and not bent or twisted. Since that checked out we inspected the mounting holes to make sure we were level and equal distance on the holes and nothing was out of line that might cause the slides to bind if they were out of alignment with each other and that checked out ok. Lastly we checked for any signs of rubbing or friction. We looked at the stop that was placed in the outer boxing that holds the slides and noticed some wear on it. Upon further inspection we noticed the stop was starting to peel up since there were only tack welds on the opposite side of where the other stop comes into contact. I think pulling it in and out without the motor in it had enough speed and force kinda of like a battering ram to cause this failure. We then looked at the inner box tubing and there was obvious signs of wear starting at about 3/4 of where it would out. We ended up grinding the stop on the outer boxing tubing down by about 1/8” and then to help support the outer box tubing we added 3/4” box tubing under the slides to help support the slides and that outter box. We’re going to toss it back together this morning and see what happens

 

[rydog1130]

Cleaned everything back up! Trying to make the cruise for the take over next week! I don’t think I’ll make it but going to try ! I ordered some 5/8” cam rollers. Going to add those inside the bottom of the outer steel tubing to support the inner steel tube. I’m Aldo going to add some horizontal rollers to my exterior supports to help brace it better. I made a new mounting plate for my new motor to run the seat in and out. I also am in the process of replacing my water pump as it went out . I’m also going to use some angle iron to brace my out boxing to help prevent any twisting!

 

[rydog1130]

T minus 2 days and counting till the cruise! I scrapped the idea of putting cam rollers under neath the inner box inside of the housing because A I think it’s just something that could cause a binding issue and B they didn’t show up in time to install lol! Overall we’re on track ! Water pump fixed, the external cam rollers and track is completed. I could have made it out of 3/4” tubing but I started with the corner Chanel steel and added on instead of a complete redo. I didn’t take any pictures but it’s all painted an ready to go back in tomorrow!