yokramer
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With the rear seat always out the holes where it clamps down are good places for broken pup ankles, and we wanted to start a base for building a drawer system off of and put a place for the dogs higher. Took a few weeks of googling but finally ran across the solution that was in my mind.
Started with a 2'x4'x.5" piece of plywood and cut it to 40" wide to fit between all the humps and stop at the cover for the sub. Then measured where the holes for the brackets to sit around the rear seat anchors. After that time to cover in carpet, we found a nice match for the carpet at Home Depot, its a touch darker but the feel of it is spot on. Used some spray carpet adhesive to hopefully keep it from coming loose across the top and stapled it down to the bottom.
Ran to the hardware store at this point to get some button head bolts in black so it was smoother to push things over and to give the glue some time to dry. Once we got back we stapled it down and poked through the carpet for the bolts. The pick did a good job of opening a hole to allow the bolts through and not tearing up the carpet.
Now for the piece Ive been loosing sleep finding lol. Ended up with Tube Clamps to add ground to pipes. Just took the bottom off so I had a threaded bracket to bolt through the base plate and around the tie down to secure the whole thing. Even with just the back to its not going anywhere and Im not sure how I would connect the front anyway.
Once bolted down we used the rear tie downs for the tethers for the dogs and took them out for a quick ride. Fred in the back loved it Wilma in the front not so much but hopefully with time she will come around. Also need to find a new harness for Wilma, with her narrow chest and being just a general escape artist this one just isn't right.
Started with a 2'x4'x.5" piece of plywood and cut it to 40" wide to fit between all the humps and stop at the cover for the sub. Then measured where the holes for the brackets to sit around the rear seat anchors. After that time to cover in carpet, we found a nice match for the carpet at Home Depot, its a touch darker but the feel of it is spot on. Used some spray carpet adhesive to hopefully keep it from coming loose across the top and stapled it down to the bottom.
Ran to the hardware store at this point to get some button head bolts in black so it was smoother to push things over and to give the glue some time to dry. Once we got back we stapled it down and poked through the carpet for the bolts. The pick did a good job of opening a hole to allow the bolts through and not tearing up the carpet.
Now for the piece Ive been loosing sleep finding lol. Ended up with Tube Clamps to add ground to pipes. Just took the bottom off so I had a threaded bracket to bolt through the base plate and around the tie down to secure the whole thing. Even with just the back to its not going anywhere and Im not sure how I would connect the front anyway.
Once bolted down we used the rear tie downs for the tethers for the dogs and took them out for a quick ride. Fred in the back loved it Wilma in the front not so much but hopefully with time she will come around. Also need to find a new harness for Wilma, with her narrow chest and being just a general escape artist this one just isn't right.
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