Afternoon,

I have had a number of you members ask for pics of the replacement A pillar that was mentioned a few weeks ago. It is moulded in the factory Taupe color that holds 2 or 3 gauges. This pillar replaces the factory one and is moulded in the same material by the same supplier that DC gets their material from. The grain and color are a perfect match. You take the factory pillar off and you do not cut it up, you just use the supplied stainless steel threaded fastener to attach the new pillar.
Anyway I am NOT a computer genius so it took me a while to get the pics so they would work on the site. We have them in stock if you have any interest.

Mark @ DPPI

 

I wish I could get a side by side!

It would be so nice....

 

I agree. I want to keep my grab handle, and have more than one gauge...

 

cquestad,

We looked at that per your suggestion, it blocks the vision pretty badly and the mount would have to be injection moulded so the cost would be VERY high.

Mark @ DPPI

 

Jeff in TD,

No way to keep the handle and have the gauge mounts legally. The grab handle is a NTSHA spec item and to have that crash tested is way too expensive. This is the ONLY legal way to our knowledge to have a gauge mount for 3 or 2 gauges and not modify the handle. Modifiying the handle changes the NTSHA standard, we will not go there sorry.

Mark @ DPPI

 

I totally disagree with the blocking vision comment and "the only way comment". If you look where I put the red circle, it is only blocks sight of the mirror backing. The other gauge would stay where it is shown now, not blocking anymore sight then it already does. If the side by side two pod was molded just like the single "add on style", it would not be modifying the grab handle and still be legal. I wish I had more time to pursue this. It really would be a neat, simple, effective solution for two guages and a grab handle.

Why would it have to be injection molded?

 

I agree with Cquestad. If you keep the 2 gages down lower, it wont block road visibiity, only part of the dash. I went with a single gage mount and it looks like there's plenty of room for one next to it. IMHO.

 

The way I see it, Mark has done his research, Im sure he'd tried different things, and if he says it won't work, then Id believe him..
Scott

 

Well, I have had somebody else say it would...that person/shop does not have the time to pursue it. I think I know how to get it done, but I may not have the time. I was hoping somebody/shop that did this for a living would like to run with my idea and make some money from it....

 

The reason it will need to be injection molded is because of the negative angles a mold will have in order to get that 2nd pod side by side. It will thermoform just fine but it will not come off the mold.

I ran into a DOT issue when I was designing the Duramax Scotty Air. There is a steel 'shelf' that the factory air box attached to.
I noticed it was REAL heavy duty for just holding the air box. So I called a good friend at USDOT in DC and got the low down.
Its part of the crash protection for the front right corner.
If someone was to be in a wreck and be injured or killed and they found that that piece was removed for an aftermarket product that is for sale on the market...I would be sued and finished in business. I too chose not to go there for a dollar nor could I stand the gamble with other peoples lives.

I am now trying to get some of these angles resolved on my Scotty Eyes for the 3rd gens. I want it to fit and look stock too.

Sorry to kind of hijack this thread about the Scotty Eyes...I sure can relate to the costs of R&D.

 

Did you guys see this thread?

https://www.dieseltruckresource.com/...threadid=48523

 

cquestad,

Yes you are right, now go and make a mold for it and cost it out as that has to be injection moulded, if we could sell 100,000 of them it would pay for itself, as the market is for this type of product 10,000 is a VERY large amount and the tooling for injection moulding will never pay for itself. It has to be injection moulded as you have made it into an inside raduis and it could never be made any other way. I am not a moulder but the folks that made this for me are and they say it can't be done any other way, plus what would the guys that want 3 gauges do then? Also if you look at the amount of distance the gauges protrude from the mount you will notice they are sunk into the mount much farther that a mount that requires you to cut the handle off and overlay the factory one, so the "blocked Vision" problem is almost nil.

The 2 gauge mount you posted before is a terribel blocked vision item, the way you want to swap it is better, if you want to habd make them with a chop gun out of fiberglass it will work. The problems with that are, no grain match, must be painted, will be very expensive as labor for hand making it are high, it will be hard and not do nearly as good a job matching the interior "look" of the truck either. As much as we like to please everyone, this isn't a part that can be done cost effiecently or easily sorry.

What we have made must be pretty good as we have sold almost a 100 of them in the first few days of letting folks on various sites we advertise on know it it available. So it must be a big improvement, as we planned for it to be, over the existing products out there.

Mark @ DPPI

Mark @ DPPI

 

Thanks Mark. I guess I will be calling you for a steering column single guage with diprocal 0-60 boost soon...since this is a dead end. I don't want to loose my handle. My truck is TALL.