Extremely productive day. I’m being sarcastic. I went to work, took everything out of the van and got ready to drill the two holes in the wooden floor I installed. I needed the holes to line up with the existing holes in the van floor that the cargo barrier was mounted with.
It took me two hours. I don’t even know what I was doing during that two hours. Anything that requires me to drill something requires me to really work myself in to a drilling frenzy. Once I start I’m okay, it’s just getting to the point of pulling the trigger!
After I did get to the point of drilling the holes. It took less that a minutes and really didn’t’ need me to work up anything…
Quite relieved it was done. I could now move on to putting the cargo barrier back in and work out how the wall between the cabin and the rear of the van was going to work.
So I thought anyway. It turns out that because my floor is thicker than the original floor I took out, plus I have 10mm on insulation down there as well — the cargo barrier doesn’t actually fit like it used to. I can’t get the bolts into the floor and the top of the frame hits the roof. It doesn’t fit.
At the moment, I have no idea what to do about it. The only options I have are to cut the floor back and mount the barrier directly to the metal van floor, or just get rid of the cargo barrier all together.
I wanted to keep the cargo barrier for safety and build my wall against it. I saw a couple of videos about the way passenger cars have been getting so many safety features and vans don’t. One showed a van in a head-on collision with stuff in the back flying forward, which would have killed the driver, the actual crash wasn’t what would have caused the drivers death — it was the stuff in the back of the van.
Ah, see, writing this stuff does help! I guess I’ve answered that question. I’ll guess I should cut the floor back and keep the cargo barrier.
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