In cab fire extinguisher mount

[Streetwise52]

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.

 

[redprospector]

I would not call a fire extinguisher light. I had a good friend of mine hit black ice and then a concrete barricade in a K5 Blazer a number of years ago. He had a 2" trailer hitch ball laying behind the rear seat, just the ball. It actually went through the dash and dented the firewall on impact. He also had a wheel stud and lug nut in the cup holder that blew through the front windshield.

Not that this is the same but the spare tire was just laying on the floor behind the rear seat. It broke the rear seat back off and pushed the front passenger seat forward breaking the seat track into the dash. If his wife or one of his kids would have been in that seat they may have been dead or seriously injured.


Any of them items could have killed him. A 2# chunk of metal like a fire extinguisher going from 60 to 0 instantaneously is like a cannon ball.

Something to think about.

I would mount it or just forget it.

Chris

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.

 

[Diamondpilot]

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]

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]

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]

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