Outer Limits 4x4 Board

Im going to knock up a storage system for the back of my shorty for camping and such, I dont have the back seats in so it will take up the whole area. I have a couple of ideas of maybe two draws on one side and a big draw on the other with a top access hole behind the front seats to get into the rear of the draws or into another compartment that could hold my esky or fridge????? dunno yet. Im interested in seeing what other guys have used or made up and what worked for them or didnt work and so on. I know its done plenty on the lwb's but havent really seen any on shortys.

thought about Daves Cubelock style?
http://www.geocities.com/hay_dj/Patrol/ ... ystem.html

make it to suit your self...

Hi, If you have taken the back seat out then the back of the SWB is the same size as a LWB. I use the same system in both cars, the only diff. is the mounting bolts for the seat belts in the rear wheel tubs that I use to hold the system in with.

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll ... 4556880352
for a prado but $500 looks ok..

That cube lock system is pretty damn bling, I just wanna make mine out of ply I think. Thats pretty similar to what I want, except on the left side I want the one big draw for my cooking gear and food and maybe segregate it and put clothes in there as well. On the right hand side smaller draws I want one to put roll up things like my tent, camping chairs and wetsuit and such in one draw then in the other I want to put recovery gear, tools, jack, spares and all that sorta crap. Then on the sides where the wheel arches are I want to put little shelves just for putting whatever on. Sounds simple enough, now I just gotta get of my arse design it and build it.
I may swap sides so the recovery draw is on the left hand side to get gear out asap if need be.
Thanks for the links bogged

here is a system out of a shorty. Pretty basic but does the trick. Note where the fridge is mounted just behind the seat.

I had a outback draw system out of a longy in my shorty to travel around oz, did the job great. you can pick em up pretty cheap second hand

pete

i was thinking of getting a small as set of draws for the shorty just for cooking gear and recovery gear.....

but was hopeing to be able to squeez a set that are just big enough to do the above in behind the rear seats.....

has anyone put any in behind the rear seats before? or have u guys all taken the rear seats out of the shorty for a large set.........

screwy

Here's what I have done in mine.



And this was for a mates Disco.




Or... with this system your dishes can get cleaned whilst your relaxing...

These are made out of 12mm 'CD Grade' ply. Glued and nailed together than I have aluminium angle liquid nailed and rivited through to bond them together. The bearings ars 22mm sealed bearings and you can get them at bearing shops at about $1.50 each. I use coach bolts with washers and nylock nuts to put the bearings together. Set the bearings about 1mm closer than you need to give a tight fit that doesn't rattle.

a mate made mine in long wheel base, ply and carpeted, two panel at the back allow for shit to be places in the area directly behing the seats and 2 1inch eye bolts and a tiedown and the fridge is in....
bingham

All these piccies have given me heaps of ideas...thanks guys.
Screwy, I think most take the back seats out as with them in there really isnt much room out the back. I thought the same thing then weighed up how often I actually used the back seats and figured it wasnt worth having them in there

here's some pics of the ones in my LWB.

Mine built by a mate, still to be finished and I wouldn't use those locks again

blkmav wrote:Mine built by a mate, still to be finished and I wouldn't use those locks again

There too expensive and can rattle open...

GUJohnno wrote:

blkmav wrote:Mine built by a mate, still to be finished and I wouldn't use those locks again

There too expensive and can rattle open...

Didn't cost me anything but the fix to them rattling open is an occy strap between the two. Just enough pressure to hold the pin off centre. Since I have been using the occy strap they haven't rattled open.

blkmav wrote:

GUJohnno wrote:

blkmav wrote:Mine built by a mate, still to be finished and I wouldn't use those locks again

There too expensive and can rattle open...

Didn't cost me anything but the fix to them rattling open is an occy strap between the two. Just enough pressure to hold the pin off centre. Since I have been using the occy strap they haven't rattled open.

I have those locks on a comercial drawer system I have. I am not a fan. Also where the pin goes through on mine. There is enough room to get a finger in there so the drawers move around a fair bit.
Also they seem to jam when you try to pull the pin up and all it does is slide the rubber cap off the pin.
I have taken my draws out at the moment cos of there rattling and will just use a space case and some tie down rails I made to store items. Unless I go on a bigger trip. Also It allows my to tie the spare down to the rear seat mounts instead of using the tyre carrier.

I picked mine 2nd hand, they were a home made job, but were pretty much a direct copy of the commercially made ones. They only thing i needed to do to them was carpet them and bolt them in. I also put in a false floor where the back seats used to be, making sure to leave a gap for the fridge. The fals floor is very handy in the way you can store a lot of stuff out of view from people.