Cargo Accessory Mounting Panel

[Trusty Rusty]

Start from the very back edge, pry the edge of the panel away from the body.

You can use fingers, or a pry bar. Key is pulling/prying as close to the clips as possible.
Once rear edge is free, pull the top edge away.
By now, it'll be self explanatory for the rest.

100% you'll break some clips. They are 30 year old flimsy plastic.

They tend to crush when reinstalling if they aren't aligned with holes.

Thanks for the feedback! Started working the outer edge after posting this and was able to peel back enough of the panel to get access down into the quarter panel chasing some wiring for the bumper...was able to remove and reinstall without any damaged clips/pins!

The ole 31-year old plastic pieces did me right today!

 

[Rusty]

I found this thread after reading the demise of Wit’s End. As it turns out at the time things were going downhill there (like others I had no idea at the time) I contemplated buying one of Joey’s QPMs. I think he was taking orders on batch six at the time.

I’d placed an order for some minor parts from him a year or so before. I got them except a wire lanyard was missing from the emergency power steering plug I’d bought. Not a big deal but I messaged him to say it was missing. He got back to me to say his cousin was filling in for him and he didn’t include it by mistake, I’ll send one right away. That never happened.

I decided to bend up my own mount. I wanted to preserve the interior accessible cubby in the OE LX 450 panel. My goal was to tuck my twin ARB away out of sight and have a power distribution panel for a future fridge, inverter etc.

I took a piece of cardboard and made a template picking up the OEM holes and faster locations, laid it out flat on a piece of scrap plate that I found in the metal bin at work, and bent it up in the press.

A little back and forth with the cardboard template in the Cruiser and a couple of tweaks in the press, it worked out well.

 

[mudgudgeon]

I found this thread after reading the demise of Wit’s End. As it turns out at the time things were going downhill there (like others I had no idea at the time) I contemplated buying one of Joey’s QPMs. I think he was taking orders on batch six at the time.

I’d placed an order for some minor parts from him a year or so before. I got them except a wire lanyard was missing from the emergency power steering plug I’d bought. Not a big deal but I messaged him to say it was missing. He got back to me to say his cousin was filling in for him and he didn’t include it by mistake, I’ll send one right away. That never happened.

I decided to bend up my own mount. I wanted to preserve the interior accessible cubby in the OE LX 450 panel. My goal was to tuck my twin ARB away out of sight and have a power distribution panel for a future fridge, inverter etc.

I took a piece of cardboard and made a template picking up the OEM holes and faster locations, laid it out flat on a piece of scrap plate that I found in the metal bin at work, and bent it up in the press.

A little back and forth with the cardboard template in the Cruiser and a couple of tweaks in the press, it worked out well.

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That's some tidy pipe work

 

[Rusty]

That's some tidy pipe work

Yeah thanks… the project kind of ran away on me, it got complicated. I decided to have a high and low volume side to my air system after I stared at a spare rear heater switch.

I repurposed that switch, on the HI side (as in high volume) to open the 12v MOV at the bottom left of the last picture in my earlier post (beige valve). That sends air to a 5 gallon air tank where the spare tire was. The tank sends air back through a check valve on the discharge side of the compressor before the ARB PRV. On the LO side (low volume) the MOV is closed and the compressor charges the ARB PRV, so you just run off the compressor without filling the tank.

I figured sometimes I’ll want the tank volume for running air tools with the PRV set to max pressure, or precharging the system while I drive before pulling over to air up the tires.

If the tank isn’t full and you’re wanting to fill your tires it’s a waste of time to fill the tank, so it’s nice to be able to isolate it.

It got a little nerdy, but once I had the idea in my head I wanted to make it work.