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I saw a thread on previous generation trucks where you could buy a storage box for under the hood so I decided to make a small one for myself. Just took a plastic ammo style box and drilled a hole in the bottom and attached to the extra battery tray with a toggle bolt and some large washers. The lid opens about 3/4 of the way before hitting the support above the tray but fine for items you may not use on a regular basis. For me, I loaded it up with emergency items like a first aid kit, siphon, flares and some other random extra tools. Nothing fancy but for 20 mins of work a good spot to store some stuff and free up space under seats and glove box by moving it to this container. 85900187d5cb5cdf9d8fe3096207a196.jpgd0b93853cdf9f9c3ce3bc5d52ee1326f.jpg2410b74a7274a205fe6070de54550be0.jpg

 

 

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THEREED
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I saw a thread on previous generation trucks where you could buy a storage box for under the hood so I decided to make a small one for myself. Just took a plastic ammo style box and drilled a hole in

djxn40
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I like your style man great idea. Now I can carry more AR mags ! I will do this tomorrow   Sent from my SM-N920P using Tapatalk

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A member here posted this on another thread, it's a simple and great idea. Storage box for 90's pickups  

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I like your style man great idea. Now I can carry more AR mags ! I will do this tomorrow

 

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Well that's brilliant. I'll have to do this to throw some basic road emergency stuff in there. Thanks for sharing!

 

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A member here posted this on another thread, it's a simple and great idea. Storage box for 90's pickups

 

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I like those as an option, means I can pull some of the emergency stuff I keep in the cab in there instead.

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Nice fit. Do you have a part # on that? Where can I get one?

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Great idea but I'm not sure I would store flares in the engine bay!! :devil:

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Ha - I was wondering when someone would mention the "flares". I actually meant those emergency glow stick type things not a true flare as that could get interesting if a flare was ignited under the hood!

 

 

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