False Floor

I made one for my Jeep. Have a slide out shelf on one side & made it deep enough to store items about as high as a snatchem is wide. great for tyre levers bead breakers etc

Send me you're email address and I can send pics of my set up !

Photos are posted at this url

http://au.f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/phil_p_kl/my_photos

Shelf is made with Plywood, sides are hardwood, covered in marine carpet.

Hey Biggy - made mine out of 12mm ply and carpeted it when finished. Removed those useless dicky seats and used those bolts to mount it in the front. Fixed it at the rear with a small angle bracket screwed into the cargo floor. Had to mak a small cut in the carpet but that is invisible. Cut the shape around the wheel arches and put a couple of fore and aft bearers of 12mm ply edged with rubber under and fixed with small angles to the false floorboard. I have since built more on top of this to house fridge, _Affordable_Storage_Drawers.aspx and a space for water and fuel.
Cheers
Pete

have a look at this, they have some interesting stuff
http://www.consoles.com/Nissan_GU_falsefloor.htm

Lazy

Hi Biggy
Sorry no pics but box in around the wheel archs .
Bolt these in place using the bolts that fix the seat hinge down.
Hight of these boxes is level with the bottom of the side pockets.
The boxes also have a lid on them which is the same level as the top of the shelf chose to do it this way as a one piece full width shelf is inposible to get through the back doors.
l used 8mm ply and aluminium angle to brace the shelf then covered it all in carpet.
i also put a sheet of ply on the floor in the back to make pulling the storage boxes in and out easier.

Andyg

MDF and steel angle brackets. It is a cheap way to construct anything you want in the rear of your truck. I have used 16mm for all my shelving and so far it has lasted 5 years with very little sign of deterioration.

Tut Tut Wiliam
MDF and steel brackets no wonder you had to beef up the suspension !

Hello Biggy,

I've got one sitting in the shed doing nothing 'cos I've got a set of the $330 roller _Affordable_Storage_Drawers.aspx now. It's steel angle frame with plywood infill and bolts onto the dicky set brackets. You can have it for nix if it suits you.
I'm in Melb.

Cheers

Geoff

A false floor level with the rear floor, replacing the rear seats is the 1st thing to goes into our Subies on extended trips - we use 10/12mm square steel tube and the seat mounting bolts to secure. The 'frame' has tie down rails and a ply floor.