Finally!
After maybe 2 years of thinking and puttering around, I've finally gotten my cargo area into a workable format that I feel the world can see.
The goals in developing this were:
1) Ditch the JK Subwoofer. Too much real estate given up to the wrong purpose.
2) Have a full cargo drawer
3) Build with expanded metal for ease of build and tie-down anywhere points
4) Have something that looks sort of like it goes with my Gobi Rack
5) Keep cargo from embedding in my head in case of panic stop
6) Not have to dig out the fridge each time I want it opened
7) Access the JK stock floor cubby
8) Room for a folding table (It slides under the cargo slide)
It was fun. It was painful. It was a lot of work. I might get around to paint or powder some day, but for now it is "functionally done". It works really nice by the way.
Along the way I learned... Owning a tubing bender is awesome. Smooth rounded corners make every project a hell of a lot harder though.
I love TIG welding... All the smoke leaking out of my Eastwood TIG and having to finish the "shelf" with MIG was painful.
*They claim they will happily replace it, but I suspect it will suck too.
Buy locking slides the first time.
Expanded metal is not entirely easy to bungee to... the spaces versus hook sizes aren't quite right.
Anyway... enjoy... Maybe?
