About this time last year I started building a fridge & cargo slider for the back of my 2019 Jeep JLU. I got the fridge slider done last year well enough to carry my 12v fridge on some adventures. Nothing like an upcoming trip to inspire some work ethic.
An abbreviated bill of materials:
1-20 foot length 1* square tubing, used ~half
2-29" pieces 3x2x3/16 angle iron
1 pair Vevor 500lb full extension drawer slides
8 pack 1m long 20mm aluminum extension, used most of it
Assorted hardware
From the factory, the rear of the Jeep has a carpeted rail down each side each with 3 D-rings that bolt to the body, then a carpeted lift up cargo deck that covers a storage cubby in the rear. There's not much other other carpet in the back of the Jeep, mostly just plastic molding covering the wheel wells. I removed the deck, rails, and D-rings. Saved the factory bolts for reinstallation.
I cut the tubing to length, cut some 1-inch pieces for riser feet, cleaned everything up with a flap wheel, drilled the appropriate holes, and had a local shop weld the riser feet to the cross members.
I cleaned up the angle with a flap wheel, drilled holes to connect the angle to the cross members (using nutserts in the cross members), and drilled holes to connect the slides to the angle iron.
The floor of the fridge slid doesn't need to be a solid shelf, it just needs to hold up the fridge. It's built from the 20mm aluminum extrusion, t-nuts, and connector brackets.
Mocking up the fridge slider floor.
Everything assembled.
And some pictures in camp on the first outing.
The first trip was a real easy yearly Navasota River camping trip. In April last year I took it to Moab, UT, and bounced it over rocks for 3 days and it performed flawlessly. Today I bought a third piece of angle iron and cleaned it up, drilled holes, and did most of the paint job toward installing a cargo slide on the passenger side. It'll be a lot easier to securely store and then access a bunch of tools and other stuff over there after that install is complete.
An abbreviated bill of materials:
1-20 foot length 1* square tubing, used ~half
2-29" pieces 3x2x3/16 angle iron
1 pair Vevor 500lb full extension drawer slides
8 pack 1m long 20mm aluminum extension, used most of it
Assorted hardware
From the factory, the rear of the Jeep has a carpeted rail down each side each with 3 D-rings that bolt to the body, then a carpeted lift up cargo deck that covers a storage cubby in the rear. There's not much other other carpet in the back of the Jeep, mostly just plastic molding covering the wheel wells. I removed the deck, rails, and D-rings. Saved the factory bolts for reinstallation.
I cut the tubing to length, cut some 1-inch pieces for riser feet, cleaned everything up with a flap wheel, drilled the appropriate holes, and had a local shop weld the riser feet to the cross members.
I cleaned up the angle with a flap wheel, drilled holes to connect the angle to the cross members (using nutserts in the cross members), and drilled holes to connect the slides to the angle iron.
The floor of the fridge slid doesn't need to be a solid shelf, it just needs to hold up the fridge. It's built from the 20mm aluminum extrusion, t-nuts, and connector brackets.
Mocking up the fridge slider floor.
Everything assembled.
And some pictures in camp on the first outing.
The first trip was a real easy yearly Navasota River camping trip. In April last year I took it to Moab, UT, and bounced it over rocks for 3 days and it performed flawlessly. Today I bought a third piece of angle iron and cleaned it up, drilled holes, and did most of the paint job toward installing a cargo slide on the passenger side. It'll be a lot easier to securely store and then access a bunch of tools and other stuff over there after that install is complete.
