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I used to carry my axe and shovel on my roof rails. It worked perfectly until I added my roof cross rails. I mounted the "quick fist grips" on the inside of the roof rails but with the new cross rails, the mounts would have to be moved to the top of the rails and I didn't like that they stuck up as high as they did, they didn't lock and were more obvious for thieves in that position and I knew they'd eventually meet up with a tree branch or two and might tear something off. Here is what they used to look like back in the day.
I haven't been able to carry the shovel and axe since then since I didn't want them sitting loose in the rear. I thought about mounting them under my rear seat, but I keep a backpack full of cold weather gear, a blanket and other emergency stuff under there and didn't want to find a new place to store that stuff. Yesterday I had an idea to mount them to the back seat. I thought I could easily fab a bracket for the quick fists to mount to. Then I saw the useless grocery bag holders sitting back there and thought I could use those mounting screws to hold the quick fist grips. I unscrewed the 2 grocery holders that would be the mount locations for the new mounts, and they were in the perfect spots. I cut away the carpet that is underneath the grocery holders and if I want to take the axe and shovel mounts off, I can just add the grocery holders back on and the only difference will be that you can see more metal beneath them instead of carpet (which i prefer anyway). So all I had to do was add small washers to the existing screws and then screw the quick fist grips to the rear seats. Worked perfectly. Now the axe and shovel are mounted securely inside the jeep, they take up next to no space, and now when I need them like I did a few weeks ago they will always be there. I think it turned out perfectly. I may go to Home Depot and get matching screws that are longer so I can mount the quick fists to the top of the grocery mounts instead of completely removing the grocery holders, so that will pull the tip of the shovel away from the plastic bracket that covers the seat lock on the pass side because it may rattle when hitting big bumps. But so far I am stoked that I found a new convenient spot for more tools that I need to carry and it didn't cost me any additional money because I already had everything I needed.
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I haven't been able to carry the shovel and axe since then since I didn't want them sitting loose in the rear. I thought about mounting them under my rear seat, but I keep a backpack full of cold weather gear, a blanket and other emergency stuff under there and didn't want to find a new place to store that stuff. Yesterday I had an idea to mount them to the back seat. I thought I could easily fab a bracket for the quick fists to mount to. Then I saw the useless grocery bag holders sitting back there and thought I could use those mounting screws to hold the quick fist grips. I unscrewed the 2 grocery holders that would be the mount locations for the new mounts, and they were in the perfect spots. I cut away the carpet that is underneath the grocery holders and if I want to take the axe and shovel mounts off, I can just add the grocery holders back on and the only difference will be that you can see more metal beneath them instead of carpet (which i prefer anyway). So all I had to do was add small washers to the existing screws and then screw the quick fist grips to the rear seats. Worked perfectly. Now the axe and shovel are mounted securely inside the jeep, they take up next to no space, and now when I need them like I did a few weeks ago they will always be there. I think it turned out perfectly. I may go to Home Depot and get matching screws that are longer so I can mount the quick fists to the top of the grocery mounts instead of completely removing the grocery holders, so that will pull the tip of the shovel away from the plastic bracket that covers the seat lock on the pass side because it may rattle when hitting big bumps. But so far I am stoked that I found a new convenient spot for more tools that I need to carry and it didn't cost me any additional money because I already had everything I needed.
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