Most guys, and some girls, who have experienced a disability that requires serious modifications to allow their driving...have asked their respective evaluator, "What are my options...can I drive a truck?" KVB Manufacturing had the Elaine-Anne Lift (they have recently shut their doors due to health reasons and I would ask that everyone who reads this - take a few seconds to send good thoughts their way...they are wonderful people) and Braun Mobility brought out the "Sport Truck" on a Dodge frame - an example of which is pictured below -
An amazing option - although outside my financial realm, which provided me the freedom to voice my opinion, "I absolutely hate the Under Vehicle Lift (UVL) hanging underneath it!"
I had heard Braun would not be re-engineering the "Sport Truck" with the body change (2001 was the last year for this body style for half-ton trucks, 2002 for 3/4 and 1 ton trucks)...but a newer version soon came out in very capable hands. Edward Pic and Jim Ryback successfully made the transition onto GM-based platforms, keeping the dream a possibility for countless others -
Plus, options with Nissan trucks, four-wheel-drives, dualies, and - most recently - a Dodge "Megacab" -
...wonderful options, each of them - and most are still available, but there remained that UVL under there - which requires four to six inches of suspension lift.
One owner of a Ryno conversion, Mr. Josh Woodcock, approached us wanting to eliminate his UVL - his family is in the logging business and the environment wreaked havoc upon the inner workings of his wheelchair lift...the following pictures are the result -
His family removed the UVL and took out four inches of the suspension lift.
Fellow Co-founder, David Gotter, rehabbed the driver's area - got things sliding that were supposed to slide, etc. - and installed our DMS-5 (a new version modified for manual wheelchairs) lift system -
The DMS-5 uses a single hydraulic cylinder - power up/gravity down - with a linear actuator for swinging in and out...the narrower version accommodates the larger push rims on manual wheelchairs, and the required bracketing for our receptor "channels" adds about four pounds to the chair -
...the DMS-5 in the lowered position - and then...Josh...taking delivery of his truck -
...locked into the EZ-Lock...moments later he closes his doors using our air system (when the doors are closed and latched, the air is dumped and the doors swing freely by utilizing the factory handles).
Josh's "new" truck!
...of course, if there still remains in you the want to have something even less modified...you have Further OPTIONS...
"With" Under Vehicle Lift (UVL) and full suspension lift...
"Without" UVL and 4" of suspension lift...
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"Without"
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"Without"
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"Without"
An amazing option - although outside my financial realm, which provided me the freedom to voice my opinion, "I absolutely hate the Under Vehicle Lift (UVL) hanging underneath it!"
Plus, options with Nissan trucks, four-wheel-drives, dualies, and - most recently - a Dodge "Megacab" -
His family removed the UVL and took out four inches of the suspension lift.
Fellow Co-founder, David Gotter, rehabbed the driver's area - got things sliding that were supposed to slide, etc. - and installed our DMS-5 (a new version modified for manual wheelchairs) lift system -
The DMS-5 uses a single hydraulic cylinder - power up/gravity down - with a linear actuator for swinging in and out...the narrower version accommodates the larger push rims on manual wheelchairs, and the required bracketing for our receptor "channels" adds about four pounds to the chair -
...the DMS-5 in the lowered position - and then...Josh...taking delivery of his truck -
...locked into the EZ-Lock...moments later he closes his doors using our air system (when the doors are closed and latched, the air is dumped and the doors swing freely by utilizing the factory handles).
Josh's "new" truck!
...of course, if there still remains in you the want to have something even less modified...you have Further OPTIONS...
