Wanted to post this for some ideas for others since I wasn’t able to find anything like this on the internet before. I wanted to make an organization system that will hold all my tools I like to keep in the jeep every day. Some tools for emergency like a blown tire but also a little more for other possibilities as well as the most common tools I’ve used for other projects so they’re close and easy to get rather than running to my apartment 100yrds away every time I forget something.
My design criteria was based on 2 things. Minimal noise, and can work with and without a back seat. Previously I had a socket set, a tool bag, and other stuff just thrown behind the back seat and when the seat was out moved it all to behind the driver seat. It was loud and I hated moving it all the time. I wanted to put it all in pack outs so I could contain everything and have it stuck to the surface so when I ride in the desert they don’t go flying. I also wanted tailgate access still when the back seat is out but the stuff back behind the seat when it was in.
My options were to have 2 packout mounts, one behind the seat and one behind the driver seat similarly to where I used to put them but being in packouts would solve the flying and how fast I could move them. Or my other option which is what I went with was mount it all on the inside tail gate so when I open it, it’s out of the way no matter what. On the tailgate puts it all behind the seat but also allows me access to the tub when it’s out.
The best way I could fit everything was to have a packout half stack on the bottom left of the tailgate and a “molle” sheet everywhere else to fit anything else that doesn’t fit in the packout. Due to time and manufacturing I purchased a packout mount off amazon and then shaped the sheet in solid works and plasma cut it on my college campus. This allowed me to not worry about the dimensions for the packout and just make some holes for the sheet to tie too. Then using ruivnuts just bolt both sheets to the tailgate.
Here is how it turned out as well as the tools that I have fitted to it as of now. I still have a breaker bar that I fit under the door jam as well as I would like to fit a jack of some sort somewhere out of the way still and I’m leaning towards the genright scissor jack mount and put it in the back side of the cage since it would fit along the top side of the sheet horizontally.
Any advice on what tools to swap out or how you’d do it differently for others to think about, or myself still, is appreciated.
My design criteria was based on 2 things. Minimal noise, and can work with and without a back seat. Previously I had a socket set, a tool bag, and other stuff just thrown behind the back seat and when the seat was out moved it all to behind the driver seat. It was loud and I hated moving it all the time. I wanted to put it all in pack outs so I could contain everything and have it stuck to the surface so when I ride in the desert they don’t go flying. I also wanted tailgate access still when the back seat is out but the stuff back behind the seat when it was in.
My options were to have 2 packout mounts, one behind the seat and one behind the driver seat similarly to where I used to put them but being in packouts would solve the flying and how fast I could move them. Or my other option which is what I went with was mount it all on the inside tail gate so when I open it, it’s out of the way no matter what. On the tailgate puts it all behind the seat but also allows me access to the tub when it’s out.
The best way I could fit everything was to have a packout half stack on the bottom left of the tailgate and a “molle” sheet everywhere else to fit anything else that doesn’t fit in the packout. Due to time and manufacturing I purchased a packout mount off amazon and then shaped the sheet in solid works and plasma cut it on my college campus. This allowed me to not worry about the dimensions for the packout and just make some holes for the sheet to tie too. Then using ruivnuts just bolt both sheets to the tailgate.
Here is how it turned out as well as the tools that I have fitted to it as of now. I still have a breaker bar that I fit under the door jam as well as I would like to fit a jack of some sort somewhere out of the way still and I’m leaning towards the genright scissor jack mount and put it in the back side of the cage since it would fit along the top side of the sheet horizontally.
Any advice on what tools to swap out or how you’d do it differently for others to think about, or myself still, is appreciated.
