In cab fire extinguisher mount

Streetwise52 · Jul 14, 2014

You don't want rust ??? Use Stainless Steel Screws. They have them at the boating supply or at most ACE hardware stores. You can buy the whole support and extinguisher at places like West Marine. Good luck.

Diamondpilot · Jul 14, 2014

redprospector said:
Wow! How fast was your friend going when he hit the black ice?
I totally agree that loose articles, especially those with any weight at all, are bad news in an accident. But the last K-5 Blazer I remember looking at had a steel dash, with a vinyl pad on the top, unlike the plastic junk we get now days. That trailer hitch ball had to have some serious velocity behind it just to tear through the dash, and then it dented the firewall.

He was going about 50 mph if I remember correctly. It's not the speed so much but the sudden stop.

If you want to scare the crap out of you put a 30# boat anchor in the bed of your truck and stop fast. It will slide forward and slam hard.

Chris

94BULLITT · Jul 14, 2014

Diamondpilot said:
If you want to scare the crap out of you put a 30# boat anchor in the bed of your truck and stop fast. It will slide forward and slam hard.

Chris

Have you ever seen a a truck with a plastic bed liner that the truck bed rubbed the cab from someone hauling something not tied down and having to slam the brakes?

redprospector · Jul 14, 2014

Diamondpilot said:
He was going about 50 mph if I remember correctly. It's not the speed so much but the sudden stop.

If you want to scare the crap out of you put a 30# boat anchor in the bed of your truck and stop fast. It will slide forward and slam hard.

Chris

It's more like a combination of the speed and the sudden stop. I think it's called inertia. :laughing:
I think he had to be going quite a bit over 50 to send that trailer hitch ball through the dash of a K-5.

Diamondpilot · Jul 15, 2014

redprospector said:
It's more like a combination of the speed and the sudden stop. I think it's called inertia. :laughing:
I think he had to be going quite a bit over 50 to send that trailer hitch ball through the dash of a K-5.

There is no way. He was very close to a turn he just made. My Eco Boost could not hit 65 by that point so 50 is the max on that K5.

Either way it's not about speed. It's about unsecured items in a vehicle.

Chris