My new (to me) Navara came with a steel plate Mountain Top cover, perfect for carting heavy and bulky stuff, which I've already used for firewood and bales of straw.
I thought I'd like to put some kind of storage arrangement in the bed to stop stuff rolling around. Some great ideas and pictures on the forum so i decided to go with two compartments running along the sides, with the middle left clear for bulk items.
Couple of photos attached of the work in progress. The basic idea is that the back panel is attached to the c channel by two eye bolts passed through holes in the ply to spring nuts in the channel.
Those spring nuts are fierce hard to come by. I only have two I salvaged somewhere and even our local hardware, who are great for old and hard to get stuff, don't have them.
There'll be a couple of stops to hold the base plate in place once its in situ, so if my measurements are correct (and they almost certainly aren't) the fit should be good and secure, with no shifting or rattling.
Once its been painted I'll be adding some cleats and more eye bolts to secure loads, so fingers crossed for the fitting.
JD
I thought I'd like to put some kind of storage arrangement in the bed to stop stuff rolling around. Some great ideas and pictures on the forum so i decided to go with two compartments running along the sides, with the middle left clear for bulk items.
Couple of photos attached of the work in progress. The basic idea is that the back panel is attached to the c channel by two eye bolts passed through holes in the ply to spring nuts in the channel.
Those spring nuts are fierce hard to come by. I only have two I salvaged somewhere and even our local hardware, who are great for old and hard to get stuff, don't have them.
There'll be a couple of stops to hold the base plate in place once its in situ, so if my measurements are correct (and they almost certainly aren't) the fit should be good and secure, with no shifting or rattling.
Once its been painted I'll be adding some cleats and more eye bolts to secure loads, so fingers crossed for the fitting.
JD