Hope the shoulder doesn't need the surgery for sure. Sorry for season ending for you. Really pretty country in your photos. Speedy recovery to you.

Yep...Kitty lake's look'n a bit brisk. Been there myself in the snow. Hope the shoulder ends up being OK.

I guess I should clarify that this is the first time I've seen it frozen over this season, been there many times in snow.  Looks like a fun ride you were having.  Update on the shoulder, ended up breaking a chunk of bone off the top of the humerus where the rotator cuff attaches, go back for follow up in a few days, hopefully the bone is healing and I won't need any surgery.

I bought a pair at Harbor Freight in Sebring, Fl. yesterday for $8.99. Work great.

Nice! That's the safest-looking rear seat I've ever seen done. Never though about doing one golf cart-style. Great idea!

Thanks NMK. the rear facing seat is about the only way to keep the pasengers low enough below the roof. I wouldnt recommend it be used at any great speed. The height from ground to step, and step to seat height is the same as a golf cart so it is easy to step onto from the ground without straining, and gives foot stability when riding.

I think the important thing to consider is for the driver to remember that he has pasengers aboard, and that they use the seat belts.

Around here we have lots of trails through the white sand and and wooded areas, and us old folks with golf carts don't get to see those off road areas. This will allow us to take passengers off road with us. The photo of my Buddy Jim and his doggie Mitch is of the first time he had his scooter off road. This is typical country where we live.

Well I've been at it again. I like to build stuff so I just got done building a rear facing seat for my Uforce 500. This is similar to a rear facing golf cart seat.

I used 14 gauge 1" square steel tubing for the step and footrest frame. This frame fits where the tailgate is attached, and is anchored by a a single 5/8" bolt through the hitch ball hole. The heavy 14 Gauge tubing is overkill, but I had it on hand.

The seats and back rest are marine grade vinyl (once we got the vinyl from Amazon we understood why it was so cheap as it was seconds and had manufacturing flaws) over 3" medium density upholstery foam, attached to a 3/4" plywood base. The seat and back rest supports are made with 1/4" x 2" flat hot rolled bar and attached to the floor by removing two box hold down shoulder bolts (one on each side) and replacing with longer hex head bolts, flat and lock washers.

The unit is made in two pieces with just three bolts needed to attach it securely. Takes just a couple minutes to mount everything after removing tail gate. I still have to make a safety apparatus to keep the bed from accidentally being dumped while the seat is in use. I have seat belts ordered. I fabricated a safety bar out of Schedule 40 1" PVC tubing. This give a little more safety and peace of mind for the passengers, like riding a ferris wheel. I plan on hinging the back  rest in order for it to fold over the seat allowing more access to the tool box.

We live where there are practly no hills and our riding is mostly wooded trails and fairly flat sand dunes, so this give us the chance to take a couple passengers along. It is pretty comfortable to ride in.

My wife did all the cushion work and tells me this is the last job she is sewing as it it getting too tough for her to do decent work. I agree that its too hard for us old dudes. At nearly 78 years old, we do not have the skills we once had. Anyway, I enjoyed doing this build. Total cost was about $75.00.

Go ahead and pull the trigger. You owe it to yourself.

Welcome to a great forum. Someone will undoubtedly have some suggestions. Too durn hot here in Florida for me to know anything about enclosures. Enjoy your ride, mine is barely a couple months old.

Dstreaker, is that the old Butterfield stage route that headed for Prescott? We were there many years ago around 1984-85 starting at about Black Canyon City, then headed past Cleator and other ghost towns and ended up the day at Crown King. Had dinner and brews at the tavern, and camped up the road on a pull out. One of the most wonderful simple trips we ever had. We had a small Chevy Luv 4x4 with a new slide in pop up camper. It was cold outside but we were comfortable and had a 5" battery powered black and white tv to watch. Love that country.

I remember a copper mine along the way with towers and long gone cables with bucket carts that carried the ore down from the mine to the road area. I still have some ore someplace. Beautiful desert country.

Finally got all the switches for the turn signals and hazard (4 way) lights and finished up the project. Everything works well and it cost a little over $30.00.

I can post a photo of the wiring diagram if anyone is interested.

I'm thinking that I'll leave it as is for now because it will start to cool off a little here in a couple weeks. It's still in the high 80's most days. Wife doesn't mind it that much as she takes a sweatshirt to wear in the air conditioned stores even if its a hundred outside....LOL

Jim and I took the wives out for a couple hours on the trails near our homes. Was in the low 90's so we needed beverage breaks occasionally.

Just a side note: since we added the windshield we notice a big increase in the amount of heat coming in the cabin especially on the drivers side. Probably due more to air flow over the windshield causing a vacuum and drawing up heat from engine compartment. When it turns cooler here that won't be a problem, but when it's 90 out, .....whew

Probaby investigage some heat blanket stuff and wrapping the exchaust pipe for starters. Suggestions anyone?

Great photos. Thanks

Welcome to the forum.

Welcome Dragonlady from the middle of Florida. I think we are about 80 miles from you. Great site here and helpful members.

dstreeker, that looks great! Makes mine look like a pile of dog do do. More vid clips please and photos of the controls. Thanks