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Haha I love the guesses. It's hose water in an antifreeze bottle. Non potable to ensure that no one drinks it before I need it. In the summer, I never hit the trail without a few gallons of drinking water. But even with that much, the supply gets thin after a full day of sharing it with thirsty friendly freeloaders. If I were depending on my drinking water to fill a low radiator, I better hope the problem occurs early in the day.
Yeah I wasn't clear with what I meant by "dual purpose". I mean that it could be drank as a last resort if the drinking water runs out.
Or you could always pull an Overkill and dump out the gallons of water you had at camp to "save weight" in the tow rig for the drive home. Only to have a head gasket blow just after you split off from the convoy with a broken cell phone. But I digress...
not mine but another idea that someone did:
http://www.jeepsite.net/jeep_story10.html
Well the design may be more complex, the construction is much easier IMO. Having seen this drawer system first hand, I feel that $1500 is a very fair price what you get. Do most people need a drawer system like that? No, but for those who need/want it, that is an extremely fair price.
http://www.hollowhilloutdoors.com/tastd1dwr2tr1.html
I have one like this for my tahoe exept it has a table that slides out under the drawer. It came linex-ed, has the dividers for rifles and such, will hold over a ton on top of it, and 400 lbs (buddy sitting on it) on the drawer with it open. Got it for a little over a grand shipped. It was well worth it. It has had the shit beat out of it and still slides just as well as it did when I got it.
It is actually in my old man's tahoe now because he needed it for his business and I am not planning any trips soon. He loves the damn thing.
Ha, I knew you'd say that and I agree with you, as long as both are being mass-produced. Pretty much everything I build is one-off, so forgive me being stuck in that mindset. Design included, I'd wager that 10,000 clayton long arm kits take less time per kit to produce than 10,000 of these drawer systems. By producing in volume you can average out the labor-intensive cost of the front-end design. That is assuming that your average LA kit isn't just slapped together randomly.
Last edited by ATL ZJ; 12-12-2008 at 03:18 PM.
I was wondering if anyone had made a steel insert inside the center console?
Kinda like this:
Or this:
Try looking here: http://www.gamberjohnson.com/products_2.0.php
Interesting stuff...
heres what I came up with
this is before i painted it and added the latches to keep it shut in a roll over, but i can fit all my air tools and spare axels in it.
Last edited by slim616; 12-18-2008 at 09:17 PM.
In my first ZJ I tried a few different things.
This was my first set up, utterly useless and if I ever rolled it, someone was gonna get killed inside.
Set up number two involved 2 big ass rubbermaid bins. I put locks on them to keep people out and bolted them in place. I personally liked this set up. It meant 1 less passenger and gave said passenger an arm rest lol.
In my last ZJ I tried this rack I bought for $100.
Plan was to build a storage unit under neither with drawers but I never did.
I modified my box setup a bit. Well, alot. I realized I didn't need such a huge ass box back there, and it could be nice to actually be able to get other stuff in the back to haul around. I also mounted my co2 on top. and you can still open the lid with the tank setup in place.
I can still fit thre 50cal ammo cans, a tool box, a juckstand, jumper cables, a bottle of antifreeze, oil, steering, and brake fluid, a bag of air connectors and such, an airhose, and a few other little things, all in that box!
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