JaxLax
Bronco Guru
As always, I'm going to throw my ideas out here and let y'all bash them into oblivion.
So I'm pondering adding latches to my original rear seat for child seats.
I was on a call where I wasn't needed, so I doodled a first take/thought on how to accomplish it.
I used this patent as a starting point/ideation.
After some quick googling and reading through car seat specs and gov't regs; the only thing I really need to be aware of/worry about is the 65lb limit on the seat restraints. So that's not a huge load to deal with when considering materials.
So below is the doodle.
I made some notes, but my head says it makes sense in general.
Obviously none of the drawing is to scale or all that accurate.
I know the distance between latch points, but not the size of the wire used for it. Maybe I could use U-bolts to remove extra welding (and allow for custom installs when seats aren't the same height/angle) and only need a drill press and they could go all the way through; so you can move them further into the seat or into the fold depending on how often you need to find/use it and it doesn't poke someone in the back.
Maybe add a middle support in the span for the round stock because safety?
Trying to figure out how to get it built easily and structurally strong.
To break down the drawing a little further:
the X's in the top view are the existing seat to floor bolts.
the dots in the top view are the bolts attaching the two pieces of stock (could be welded)
Otherwise tell me where I'm wrong or tell me where hundreds of people are going to want these and I should start building a jig.
So I'm pondering adding latches to my original rear seat for child seats.
I was on a call where I wasn't needed, so I doodled a first take/thought on how to accomplish it.
I used this patent as a starting point/ideation.
After some quick googling and reading through car seat specs and gov't regs; the only thing I really need to be aware of/worry about is the 65lb limit on the seat restraints. So that's not a huge load to deal with when considering materials.
So below is the doodle.
I made some notes, but my head says it makes sense in general.
Obviously none of the drawing is to scale or all that accurate.
I know the distance between latch points, but not the size of the wire used for it. Maybe I could use U-bolts to remove extra welding (and allow for custom installs when seats aren't the same height/angle) and only need a drill press and they could go all the way through; so you can move them further into the seat or into the fold depending on how often you need to find/use it and it doesn't poke someone in the back.
Maybe add a middle support in the span for the round stock because safety?
Trying to figure out how to get it built easily and structurally strong.
To break down the drawing a little further:
the X's in the top view are the existing seat to floor bolts.
the dots in the top view are the bolts attaching the two pieces of stock (could be welded)
Otherwise tell me where I'm wrong or tell me where hundreds of people are going to want these and I should start building a jig.