Ranger One

Built a center console to house the Art Carr shifter. I don't like the Art Carr plastic housing and the shifter needed to sit higher than the mounts they supply sit. I also decided to put a storage box on it. I stuck with the ammo can theme as you can see. It's still lacking a lock. The E-brake mounts to the console between the drivers seat and the console. This way you can get in and out and it will be sticking up, hard to miss, when it's set.

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you gonna go w/ an od green to repaint the console, or something else?

Nah, something that will match the seats.

Cage tie-ins are done. I went with tube on the A and C pillars and wanted something a little more significant on the B pillar so I made an outrigger out of 3"x2".

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did you not want to use bushings between the cage and the frame?
thanks for posting those by the way now i have some ideas to follow when i do mine pretty soon.

That is just super clean work John, kudos all around.

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Originally Posted by 85cj7

did you not want to use bushings between the cage and the frame?
thanks for posting those by the way now i have some ideas to follow when i do mine pretty soon.

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ive never seen one with bushings :confused:

Maybe he meant between cage and body???

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Originally Posted by Eckert

ive never seen one with bushings :confused:

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alot of people put bushings in like body mount bushings. that way the body doesnt rip when it tries to move around the stationary cage.

The main reason for bushings between the cage and frame are vibration isolation. I thought seriously about putting them in but theres really no sense in a rig like this that wont be a daily driver. Also, you have to consider how you orient bushings as you can lose a lot of beneficial stiffness to the cage depending on which direction you put them.

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Originally Posted by DRAGOONRANCH

That is just super clean work John, kudos all around.

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thanks Ed

again very nice work john

pretty sure we had this same discussion on our jeep...we don't have vibrations near as I can tell

Built a battery tray. The floor of the stock one was corroded pretty badly, so I scavenged parts off it it and made a new go fast one. I used Flemco dimple dies. They work swell on thin stuff. :gigem:

did you have to straighten the bottom plate any after those flares? I think adding a radius to the outside edge of the concave half of the die might cure some problems on thick stuff.