Second row fridge mount

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Re: Second row fridge mount

I removed the smaller (left side) 2nd row seat & used the top 14mm bolts to hold in a platform I made up for the Slide Lock for my 40l Engel.

Materials:
- 600x380mm 12mm plywood.
- 2x 40x40mm 2.5mm aluminium U-channel each 50-60mm long. I picked up an offcut @ Capral Aluminiun.
- Engel Slidelock.
- 2x 150mm cable ties.
- 4x 25mm Philips head 8g self-tapper screws.

tools:
- Drill & drill bits: 12mm, 7mm, 3mm
- 14mm socket & open ender spanners.
- Philips head screwdriver(s).

You will need to measure up where your fridge needs to sit in relation to any rear seat passenger(s), How far the lid opens, & how far back you can place it. I have a cargo barrier which limited the rearward placement.
Line up the bolt holes & measure up placement on the underside of the 12mm ply. Have the open side of the U-channel towards the door - easier to access bolts. Offset the screws holding the u-channel to the ply, so as give access to the bolts with a socket spanner.
Use the front bolts to hold the base in.
Cable ties through the base around the 2 bars which the seat locks onto.
Screw on the Slide Lock. Keeping the Slidelock as close to the door as possible, so if I needed to get 2 people in the back set, they would not be hard up against the fridge.

I also took the top grab handle off as it stopped the fridge lid from going all the way back (by about 3mm) & falling back down on your head, arm, etc.
With the 40mm U-channel, this kept the fridge fairly level & gave you easy access to the bolts.

This work very well for a trip across the Simpson Desert (French Line) & further touring around Alice Springs, East Macdonnell's, Merrenie Loop, Palm Valley & Flinders Ranges.

[hoppy Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close hoppy]

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I had a guy fabricate a shelf for my Waeco 50l that fits where the single seat mounts. It hooks onto the back seat mounts and bolts to the lower front seat mounts. I have had it for a couple of years. It takes a few minutes to fit. There is enough room to place three 20l plastic jerry cans of water in the footwell. It fits infront of the rear storage draws and cargo barrier. Worked perfectly on our Canning Stock route trip this year.

Garry

I am trying to show some photos.

http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/pho ... 5119kszxEQ

Garry

I have printed some pics of your second row fridge mount and plan to find a fabricator in northern sydney so I can replicate your design. You wouldnt happen to have any measurements lying around still?

Hoppy

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Re: Second row fridge mount

Hello Hoppy, I'm not a fabricator so this is the best I can do.

The frame uses 30 mm x 30 mm x 2 mm angle
32 mm x 6 mm flat bar
25 mm x 25 mm x 1.5 mm square tube


640 mm long

362 mm wide

180 mm from rear

The leg measurements are all taken from the drivers side but underneath the frame First Rear Leg 22 mm from edge

230 mm from edge

Front legs 10 mm from edge (drivers side) note legs flush with inner edge of angle iron

Second leg 300 mm from edge

Rear Leg (drivers side) 95 mm long, cutout centre 60 mm, cutout 7 mm wide

Second Leg 80 mm long, 64 mm cutout centre, cutout 12 mm wide

This a bit harder to measure. Both legs are the same length. It appears to be about 150 mm to the bolt hole centre.

I hope this works. I'm hopeless at posting photos.

Regards

Garry

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Re: Second row fridge mount

Garry,

The image post will work if it's like this:

[img]http://www.postimage.org/Pqo2UwJ.jpg[/img]

(that's your first image)

Results in this:



Hope that helps

Michael

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Re: Second row fridge mount

Thanks Garry,

I will work it out. The fabricator will probably want to do all the measurements themselves anyway.

Rob

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Re: Second row fridge mount

Thanks Michael (Photoprado). I don't quite understand what happened. I just copied the link on the bottom of the three codes on the Postimage site but it didn't have the .jpg on the end of it. I added it and then it worked. All good now.

Hoppy, I hope the photos will help.

Regards

Garry

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Re: Second row fridge mount

I have to take the single second row seat out to measure a distance to see if the Lifestyle racks fridge mount will fit.
I take it that in order to remove the 2nd row seat there are just some bolts behind plastic covers at the front of the seat? Is there any trick to getting these covers off? I had a bit of a go at trying to take one off but I was reluctant to force it off cos I'd probably just end up breaking it...

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Re: Second row fridge mount

I have to take the single second row seat out to measure a distance to see if the Lifestyle racks fridge mount will fit.
I take it that in order to remove the 2nd row seat there are just some bolts behind plastic covers at the front of the seat? Is there any trick to getting these covers off? I had a bit of a go at trying to take one off but I was reluctant to force it off cos I'd probably just end up breaking it...

I was told that removing the plastic covers on the rear seat was the hardest part of the whole install. But, having said that I would be keen to see a pic of them being removed as well.

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Here are some pics of the plastic surrounds on the second row seat mounts.

You need to take the front ones off first. Start at the bottom and pull out the sides while pulling in a forward direction. Once the bottom and middle clips are free you can lift the cover up to release the top clips.

The bottom ones can then be removed by the pulling the sides out at the bottom then rolling it upwards.







Leachy

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Re: Second row fridge mount

Thanks for going to that trouble Leachy, thanks Pradopoint.....

[JeffH Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JeffH]

Re: Second row fridge mount

Thanks for the pics Leachy, and to Dobbo for giving me a call. I managed to get them off, although a couple of the clips are a little worse for wear as a result.

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Here's my effort. Basically made up of whatever bits and pieces I could find in the shed.

The frame is made up of 15x15 RHS with a 20x20 RHS leg/support at the rear end and two 6mm Uni-Strut angles as legs at the front.

Along the rear I've welded a Uni-Strut joiner (6mm flat bar with a hole at each end) and used this to bolt through the rear of my drawers with two 10mm bolts.

At the front the top two seat bolts are re-used.

Four links of 6mm long loop chain make up the four strap down points. The to is 16mm MDF board with a covering of auto carpet.

I reused the straps from my original Engel slide.

Before fitting I did a cut and shut on my Milford to remove the bottom foot of it and bring it up to the level of my drawers.


















Mick

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Re: Second row fridge mount

Nice work Mick.

[clifton Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close clifton]

Re: Second row fridge mount

A really good looking job Mick, mine is made of marine plywood and aluminium brackets bolted to the mounts not as robust as your job but they are a great idea if you dont need to cart around passengers I was going to remove mine months ago but its just so handy it remains.

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Re: Second row fridge mount

Just a little idea that I utilise with my fridge mount, iS to cut 4 pieces of 90mm pvc stormwater pipe, each about the same width as the mount and slide them in underneath. Then wrap a sheet or two of newspaper around 4 bottles of wine and voila, instant wine rack :mrgreen:
Very handy when travelling and you don't want bottles rolling around the cabin.
I'm not going to post pics as I've replaced the seat after coming home from the GTG but I think you'll get the idea.

Dobbo