Rear storage suggestions
Posted: 15 Aug 2023 21:10
Ok, so this past river trip I have had a long thought about my drawer system at the back of my patrol. And it’s just not filling me with a warm fuzzy feeling. It’s just not working. The second time in a year , a heavy bump on the trip has dislodged some of the wiring next to it. Now that’s not really the front runner drawer systems fault . But it’s big and limits the space of what you can fit next to it. And it’s HEAVY!
The small space next to it , limits the size of a dual battery and even tying the battery down so that a bump on the sand does not move it to cause issues.
So I’ve decided I want to remove the drawers (can put them in the other patrol). And perhaps put a marine ply base (using the point where the rear seats bolt down to)
Perhaps make sure there is a space underneath to perhaps fit one of those roof rack pioneer plastic 50L water tank. Have a standard fridge slide bolted on the marine ply. Don’t have drawers , but just tie down points and ratchet some ammo crates (everything in the drawers are in ammo crates anyways).
Then there should be enough space to add a bracket (or even one of those battery boxes as a bracket) for my battery with a panel (don’t know where to put this yet).
And perhaps even fit my compressor in the back. Now I’m next to utterly useless working with my hands so it’ll be as simple as possible with a lot of YouTube videos for the dual batteries.
Anyone has some advice? Good idea/bad idea? Things I should look at (the fridge is an 80l NL, that is the only part of the current drawer system that works every river trip without an issue)
Thanks
The small space next to it , limits the size of a dual battery and even tying the battery down so that a bump on the sand does not move it to cause issues.
So I’ve decided I want to remove the drawers (can put them in the other patrol). And perhaps put a marine ply base (using the point where the rear seats bolt down to)
Perhaps make sure there is a space underneath to perhaps fit one of those roof rack pioneer plastic 50L water tank. Have a standard fridge slide bolted on the marine ply. Don’t have drawers , but just tie down points and ratchet some ammo crates (everything in the drawers are in ammo crates anyways).
Then there should be enough space to add a bracket (or even one of those battery boxes as a bracket) for my battery with a panel (don’t know where to put this yet).
And perhaps even fit my compressor in the back. Now I’m next to utterly useless working with my hands so it’ll be as simple as possible with a lot of YouTube videos for the dual batteries.
Anyone has some advice? Good idea/bad idea? Things I should look at (the fridge is an 80l NL, that is the only part of the current drawer system that works every river trip without an issue)
Thanks
