Home Grown Solutions

[cico7]

For the lack of a better name, the expeditionportal has a thread call Homebrew.
This is for DIY homemade Jeep modifications.

HomeMade Mods

We should have something like that here.....what do you think???

[Sal-XK]

Sounds like a good idea. Just put stuff that is home made in the thread no bolt on stuff is that what you are thinking.

[cico7]

Sounds like a good idea. Just put stuff that is home made in the thread no bolt on stuff is that what you are thinking.

Shelves, storage devices etc, you make it, you solve it, put it here.

[Sal-XK]

Now look before you guys say anything about it keep in mine it cost me $2.50 so far and thats for the hinges. I grabbed what ever I had laying around the house to put this together and so far I'm thrilled with it. Ok so here are the pics.

Removed the jack and the stock storage box for it.



I decided not to make an actual box for a few reasons. One it would probably cost me money. Second that area is not square and has lots of things in it to build around which meant I would have had to make a much smaller box then the space that is available.

Ok so I have it down to bare bones and now understand what hoaxci5 was talking about with support.

I decided to go with a hinged lid so I fitted a piece of wood to anchor and attach the lid to. I also decided to paint every think black until I figure out what to cover it with.



I got the two pieces connected with hinges and was looking good.


I had to make some adjustments to make it work


Then I decided to add a back to it keep things in place, it's left over laminate wood flooring LOL. It served a second purpose of adding support to the thing as well.


So this is it fully loaded, When the rear lid closes it butts directly up to the lid sealing the area off.


Here is a shot of all the stuff I have in it right now. I was able to get rid of my tool box I carried as well

[Sal-XK]

Put these nuts and washers together so I could mount any thing I wanted using the channel on the rails. 1 bolt 4 washers 2 nuts. Bolt length depends on what you're mounting and how much thread you need sticking out the top.

[Adondo]

Here's what I did when I first bought the Jeep.

The 3rd row was wrapped in plastic and hauled out to a shed.

I built a framework from pine. The wedge shaped area holds a floor jack. The lid is plywood with matching (well, a close match) carpet stapled to the lid. I left the original jack storage because other stuff fits there, and it's part of the rear HVAC system. The holes in the 1x6 pine are for the heating vents to flow.

[Matt]

So to start... I made this cargo mat out of the bed mat from my pickup truck. The $80+ price tags for the rear cargo liners were just ridiculous!!



Today we took a spin with some friends to get some ice cream... and I needed to use the 3rd row (2 couples and 2 babies). Then I realized, i wanted a better way to using a 3rd row seat than just rolling the mat over like this:



So... I put a cut in it






I plan on "sealing" up the cut with a glued/sealed velcro strip to keep dirt & debri from falling in the crack.

FYI:
You can purchase a pickup truck bed mat for UNDER $50. My bed mat was enough to make a cargo liner for my XK and my wifes KK!!! So that's two cargo mats for less than the price of one. Oh yea, custom fit btw

[IamJEEP]

I had to make some new cross rails that were lower profile (so i can park in the garage at work). I used curtain alluminum rails that we use at work. Cut them to length and test fitted them..............









Then I sprayed them with undercoating/bed liner stuff and installed them in their resting area..........







I gained 1.25"s of lower profile....with the sport bars (including the mounts) it was a total of 4"s high.......with my home-mades it came out to be 2 3/4"s high.

With the basket installed........

[pjmjr508]

Nice

[Adondo]

At least you weren't naked when you took the photo. (Like that infamous "eBay teapot" photo)

I like how close the basket sits to the roof.