When I told my friend I was getting a Jeep he was hating on it saying shit like "What about the glaciers and the rainforests?"
I was like "Bro, this thing has 4WD Low Range and diff locks, it'll handle that shit easily"
Someone originally posted the idea here
https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/forum/threads/my-tonneau-cover-lock.28155/#post-858126
I've gone a step further of trying to make it a little more aesthetically aligned by using black latches bolts, drilling rivets into the bed of the truck so the...
Yup. Thats the one. I used a dremel to cut open the loop so it was a hook and then smoothed out the sharp edges.
If you want to do it properly you can put some rivnuts into the bed so all 3 screws are in but a single screw in the existing hole will also do the job. I put in 3 holes and added...
Changed the silver adjustable latches to black and put in rivnuts to keep them attached to the bed so I can lock the soft tonneau down when I need to. Jeep would probably charge $500 for these $30 latches with a Mopar logo. Just waiting on some black m5 bolts and its all done.
Thanks for this idea. I built a temp version using a draw latch. I couldn't get the hook version so I went with a loop and cut it into a hook with a dremel.
At the moment it's a temporary one. I managed to find a black version on Amazon which I have on order so when that arrives I'll put some...
So far I’ve found the CarPlay 2Air collected to the dash is flawless. I used double sided tape to stick on the top of the usb flap so us didn’t look untidy and my phone sits in a wireless charging mount with the cable hidden in the dash
Installed my soft top and rubber mats. The box is huge. Had to remove all my accessories from my bed for it.
getting the back window on had me swearing a couple of times.
I made some brackets out of pieces of powder-coated steel from the hardware store. All I had to do was drill them and add the trail rail bolts.
The rotopax mount is made from one of these
combined with one of these joined. I used the T at the top to stop it rotating with the weight of the...
long sides are 60” 4x2
Shorter sides 30” 4x2
Stacks are 18” in the centre and 10” on either side. I used hollow foam tubing for the edges and an old cheap yoga mat I had lying around at home cover it.
according to the designs on the wrangler forums is supposed to have another 60 2x2 off Center...