Looks great Choog. You must be a small fella. My 4" wide ammo box has to favor What's-her-face's side.This is the mounting bracket bolted to the frame. Again, just ignore the ugliness of the bracket , we did some tweaking to it.....lol , things didn't fit like I had originally planned!
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NooooooooooooooooooooYa I'm a pretty skinny guy !
With a finish and quality equal to the box my only concern would be rough terrain and the inability of the ChoogREST to give which may not be a completely painless riding experience. Any thoughts to support comfort during these types of riding conditions?The only thing I will be doing, is adding this to the top/lid.This is going to be a great product!
My hope is to get 5 people on the forum to buy one and give me some feedback on it.I volunteer to do the testing in exchange for getting to keep the prototype
Looks like a great fit! The only difference is your design is a solid mount and trigger uses Velcro which gives and moves. I’m sure yours will be fine and just knowing the quality you are capable of it may be worth the sacrifice of comfort if in fact it would be an issue!
I gotcha , you make a good point. I will have it down at takeover, so that will be the trial run on it.
We did a dry fit on the box and mounting bracket tonight. We discovered a few clearance issues with the mounting bracket , so we will make a new mounting bracket with all the corrections and it should be a go from hear on out.
I should have the new bracket in a few days to try it out , if it looks good , off to the powder coater for the bracket. While that's going on , we will work on getting the electronics all mounted and fit before the box gets coated.
We had to use a BFH on the mounting bracket to gain some clearance , so just ignore those bent corners
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Thanks for the info , you are the goto guy on the size of thisLooking at the pics it looks a little short, as in length. Yours sits back further than mine as you're over the latch hump and mine is in front of the hump. Just thinking you could make it longer to hold more and push that Ram ball out? Although yours may accommodate a little more leg room sitting back? Me and the wife aren't skinny but we're not fat either and it's snug in between us. Not like we're fighting for room but both of our hips are pressed against it. Yeah, I would love to see a completed one at the takeover. I have no problem scrapping mine if this one feels like a better size.
. I pushed the box back so it would have more support on top of the mounting bracket. In the future there will be a large cup holder on the front of the box , so the extra room in front of box will be nice for that.
Thanks for the info , you are the goto guy on the size of this
Definitely keep us updated!So I am still working with the one that was ordered. I plan to remove the cup holders add switches and use 4” Velcro to secure it around the seat as is the design for triggers. I have 5 switches and a power and ground which will run into the armrest. For now I will not add a quick disconnect for removal. Per @Chooglin ’s idea I already changed the direction of the armrest lid and it works fine. Going to dig around in the garage and see what I have to give it a custom look. Hopefully I will have pics of mine by Saturday night
That is slick , I like what you are doing with this........so it's more of a control panel than for storage ?
Yes sir! I needed an alternative to chopping up the dash. This will be much cleaner and after it’s done I will also have an arm rest out of the deal!
Just once I’d like to time travel to a point where the project is complete so I will know what I come up with.
I know this would save me a ton of time. I’ve got about 5 hrs in work that should have taken less than 1 Have a few things coming in now to make it removable 7 wire trailer plug and 8 ft of cable. Should make for a clean look.
