I have a '95 Sidekick 2DR, have removed the rear seat and just bought a Contico SUV storage box to put in it. I'd like to make some brackets to hold it in place but make it removable, if necessary. Anyone done anything like that? How did you do it? Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks

A buddy had a box mounted in his pickup bed -- He drilled through the bed, put long bolts from the bottom up, one nut on top of the pickup bed, then fed the bolts through the box, then had large wing nuts holding the box in place from the inside.   No brackets for anyone to be able to remove from outside, and no bolts they could get at unless they were already able to get inside the box.


Horrible ascii art:


           W       W     
             WWW                  - Wingnut
------------------------------------   - Bottom of box
              ===                  - Nut
-------------X-------------------  - Pickup Bed
              XXX                   - Bolt head




-Al.

I used to run a storage box in the back of mine that was originally a truckbed box with brackets underneath it that bolted through the floor of the box to the bed of the truck just like what Stainless is describing.  Just so happens those bolt holes lined up nearly perfectly with the bolt holes from the seat bracket in my Kick.  So I ran through bolts through the floor of the box through those seat bracket holes.  It worked very well.  Held the box securely yet was easy to remove.

Thanks for the suggestions. I had planned to use some sort of carriage bolts and wing nut arrangement but hoped to make it easier to install and remove than having to crawl under the car to feed the bolts or remove nuts. I was thinking of some brackets to mount to the car's wheel wells or some similar place on the inside  sides, more complicated, though.

I'm reassessing the idea based on the suggestions and have used the rear most hole of the passenger side rear seat hinge mount to thread a bolt with fender washer through the bottom of the box. The box is not the full width of the rear space and the left side of the box doesn't cover the driver side hinge mount hole so I intend to take a piece of aluminum strapping and run it from the hole to under the box and attach it to the box from below with a carriage bolt, fender washer and wing nut. Then, because the two securing points are so close to the forward edge of the box I'm thinking of a similar arrangement to attach to the bracket in the center of the rear floor that has the U shaped wire for the latch at the bottom of the seat. This would run under the back edge of the box and be held to the box with another carriage bolt, fender washer and wing nut.

if anyone could post pictures of these boxes it would really be cool

Horrible ascii art:


           W       W    
             WWW                  - Wingnut
------------------------------------   - Bottom of box
              ===                  - Nut
------------X-------------------  - Pickup Bed
              XXX                   - Bolt head




-Al.

Heh.  Not bad, Captain Old Skool.