Wild child underseat storage box

[bigmuddy]

I know that Wild Child is out of business but is anyone making the underseat storage box? Too, can someone post pics or provide a link to the wild child storage box they are using.

Thanks Ben

 

[73stallion]

the only one i know of now is the wild horses one. not a drawer, but under seat storage.

http://www.wildhorses4x4.com/product/Passenger_Seat_Storage/Storage

 

[Smokeater11]

Why not just make your own? That's what I did on both sides. The passengers side was easy. 1 piece of 14 gauge metal and 1 bend. Lay it in there and weld it in. $2.00 for a set of hinges and a scrap piece of metal makes you a door for it. Took me less than an hour to make mine for the passengers side. The drivers side was much more complex and time consuming. Here's the drivers side.

 

[Smokeater11]

I don't have a specific pic of the passengers side but you can see it in this pic.

 

[bigmuddy]

Thanks Gents for the help. Smokeater11, where did you get the slides and the drawer or did you build the drawer as well?

thanks Ben

 

[bigmuddy]

By the way, would mind throwing up some pics of your passenger side storage setup.

Thanks Ben

 

[phred]

there's a detailed write up in the jan/feb or march/april 09 issue of bronco driver of the a wild child box install.

 

[dnewman9]

I would like one of these as well. Worst case I will get someone to bend up the steel. Should be 2 bends and I could bolt it to the floor.

I still would have to come up with the drawer but that would be the easy part.
If someone finds one let me know.
Dennis

 

[bigmuddy]

phred, thanks I will check it out. Now if I can just find that issue in my stack of offroad mags!

Ben

 

[Mongonius]

Smokeater.... dig the granade.

 

[Buldozer]

Two words....plywood baby! I have one made of 5/8 plywood that works great. Does not slide and stays put!;D Now stop drumming up additional projects to work on or you will not be finished by OCBR Ben!

 

[bigmuddy]

No new project bulldozer, just trying to complete my list of repairs. I am still agonizing over the seat install! Got to have seats if I am to make OCBR at all with a bronco under me.

Ben

 

[JWMcCrary]

I have the one that Wildhorses sells. Nice to have a spot handy to put a few things, however any steep downhill and it all comes under the passengers feet. Some type of drawer/door would make it alot better.

 

[Smokeater11]

Ben I built the drawer for the drivers side as well. I bought the sliders at Lowes for less than $5.00. I'll have to get you some pics of the passengers side tonight. I don't have a drawer on that side although that side would be much easier to make a drawer in. The body brace on the drivers side makes it a real PITA. I might not even be able to use the drawer on the drivers side depending on how I can manage to bolt the seat in. It's a real tight fit.

 

[Smokeater11]

Smokeater.... dig the granade.

I have two grenades now!! My 8 ball broke so I put a baseball grenade in it's place. So now I have a baseball grenade on the gear banger shifter and a pineapple grenade on the t-case.

 

[bigmuddy]

JWMcrary, did you mount your seats directly to the WH unit or to the rollbar?
Smokeater11, 10-4 on the build, send some pics when you get time ASAP.

I am digging the grenades too! very cool, kinda lends a rat rod vibe.
Ben

 

[JWMcCrary]

The rear is to the floor, the front is to the WH unit and the floor.

 

[Smokeater11]

Here are a few pics I took tonight with my cell phone. It's a really simple mod. I used 14 guage instead of 16 because I knew the seat would be bolted directly to it, and I already had the metal. AND since you guys like my grenades I thought I'd add a pic that had both of them in it. I might have to take the clip and pin off the baseball one if it gets rough on my palm.

 

[Steve83]

Remember that the floor is what connects the seat to the seatbelts, the frame, & the cage. So if the seat rips out, or bends a smooth flat piece of sheet metal into a wave, it means someone's skull is going where it shouldn't. That's why the original floor isn't flat - not even the footwells. There's always a bend or corrugation to make it rigid so it doesn't warp.

So a flat deck over a drawer is probably too weak for a chair that needs to hold a 200-lb guy in a truck going over rocks, even under 5mph. It would have to be VERY thick, and even then, IDK how long it'd stay flat. Even a small channel creating a ridge near each seat mount would help a LOT. See the original ones in those pics above? See how thin the original floor is? It doesn't take much to do a LOT of good.

On Frank's, I went a different route. I built a box that supports a '78-89 passenger seat base so the chair flips up, and IS the lid for the box.

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[bigmuddy]

Smokeater11 thanks for the pics. Looks really good.

Ben