So now that you've sorted it all out, you can do the 100's for the 2 guys that might actually do something cool and useful to their trucks
I take it you got my email!
You damn 100 series guys......
But yes, the hope would be that once this is sorted it could be adapted to other series with nothing more than new frames.
At least you are out there representin! Theres a lid coming your way, putting the hardware packs together right now.
So that tape's pretty beefy huh? Do you foresee any deterioration in the future with its ability to hold the glass with the force of the piston (and the glass's weight itself) pressing against it?
Yes, or more precisely, I don't know. The application is within the specs for the material and this particular adhesive is for metal to glass applications.
I've had two of the tabs glued to a piece of glass under tension of a heavy gas shock since last fall. Thats great and all, but nothing can match on the road testing.
Something else I thought of, just to throw a wrench into the works: though the release buttons are cool as hell, how well could they handle being bashed or snagged by a rock on a trail? It looks like they stick out a bit, and it'd suck to destroy one while out wheeling. Is there another lockable system that mounts more flush to the sheet metal?
Another big concern for sure.
Flush would be better, but there are no options for that without cutting the metal, and that defeats the purpose.
The actuator that is probably going to get used there will be slightly lower profile, and in both this and that case there are bump ramps to help with trees and such.
Rocks are another thing, but in both cases the actuators are made out of solid chunks of metal, they stick out a bit, but only about half again as much as the stock marker light, if the marker light is always getting broken on you then I would look at a different mount location.
That is the nice thing about this system, you don't have to necessary mount the actuator there, I've got it there since that's part of the bolt-in installation. If this where just for me, I would mount the actuator where you can see I have my trailer plug mounted, in the rear facing sheet metal right above the taillights.
It's pu out of the way that way.
You're insane...
But that looks great with the paint and tinted windows. That wouldn't be a hard system to adopt to Aussie sliding windows (or 80s?) since you don't have to attach anything to glass. Just messing, though I bet you'll be up all night designing intricate little latches and parts in your head to make that work. Heck you could build limo lighting into the bolt heads and little LED clusters on either side of the push button thing for side markers and make the windows open to set or variable positions and and ...
I resemble that remark!
Although, I am trying to make it simpler, not add complication.
However, your search skills are better than mine, if you can find some good lighted bolts for the actuator I would integrate them.
The marker light deletion is technically a legal issue, in the US market they are supposed to be there. (non us spec trucks don't all have them interestingly enough) My justification for the delete is that it lets these be installed without cutting the truck and if you look, newer cars (as in everything else on the road) do not have side marker lights anymore since their rear taillights technically wrap around the side enough. So the theory is that, who is going to know to look?
The other thing is that if this is an inspection issue, all the stock parts can be dropped back in, pop the markers in for inspection and switch them back out.
Good lighted bolts would take care of that.
Not that it would be legal, since as with everything else I make, it's for Off Road Use Only.
