JoeJrTheBarber
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1988 Humvee Project: Installed my "Bed / Cargo Divider" today.
Had the day off and took advantage of the "heat wave" Chicago was having with temps in the lower 50's and installed my "Bed Divider" I picked up offa good ol
Ebay. I am by no means a mechanic but I have built a few racecars and motorcycles in my day so I wasn't too afraid to attack something like this (spray paint fixes everything !)..
How the truck looked as I got it. Was lovely to have water rushing into the cab when raining or even better after a car wash. Plus whatever heat the truck did make ran right out into the bed with the 1'' gap.
I see this as a temp thing as I am going to get a "iron curtain" back window / wall thing-e eventually so I didn't want to go all out and rivet the thing in place as the directions said so I got a few tubes of industrial silicone and a few self taping screws and off I went.
Install went pretty straight forward. Piece is about 1/2'' short on both sides so I had to get creative with some duct tape and silicone to fill in those gaps but all in all came out great and should do a pretty good job of keeping what's in the bed in the bed. Could prob make a better fitting piece with some L-channel minus fitting the grooves of the bed like this piece did (this piece is some kinda hard plastic / maybe fiberglass)..
Had some matte black spray paint lyin around so I sprayed it black and "dusted" back into the bed so it kinda (and I stress the word Kinda) looks like it wasn't a recent add on. No matter what I do to this truck add-on wise I want to keep it looking alittle rough around the edges...
Inside view. Plan to get some matching green paint eventually and spray this so it doesn't stick out so much (being black against the green). Also need to get a long strip of Velcro and run that between the bottom of the rear window and the divider to get a better fit. But, for now it's fine and I feel a good use of a hour or so of my time..
Lots more little projects to come which I plan to document and post the best I can.
Stay tuned...
* NOTE: After driving the truck in the rain for the first time with the above installed I soon realized that the curtain itself needed to go on the outside of the divider (and not on the inside as it is shown above) to keep water out of the cab. This way the water rolling down the curtain would stay in the bed and not puddle up inside the divider itself. So, a quick fix and some industrial Velcro and we should be good to go..
Had the day off and took advantage of the "heat wave" Chicago was having with temps in the lower 50's and installed my "Bed Divider" I picked up offa good ol
Ebay. I am by no means a mechanic but I have built a few racecars and motorcycles in my day so I wasn't too afraid to attack something like this (spray paint fixes everything !)..
How the truck looked as I got it. Was lovely to have water rushing into the cab when raining or even better after a car wash. Plus whatever heat the truck did make ran right out into the bed with the 1'' gap.
I see this as a temp thing as I am going to get a "iron curtain" back window / wall thing-e eventually so I didn't want to go all out and rivet the thing in place as the directions said so I got a few tubes of industrial silicone and a few self taping screws and off I went.
Install went pretty straight forward. Piece is about 1/2'' short on both sides so I had to get creative with some duct tape and silicone to fill in those gaps but all in all came out great and should do a pretty good job of keeping what's in the bed in the bed. Could prob make a better fitting piece with some L-channel minus fitting the grooves of the bed like this piece did (this piece is some kinda hard plastic / maybe fiberglass)..
Had some matte black spray paint lyin around so I sprayed it black and "dusted" back into the bed so it kinda (and I stress the word Kinda) looks like it wasn't a recent add on. No matter what I do to this truck add-on wise I want to keep it looking alittle rough around the edges...
Inside view. Plan to get some matching green paint eventually and spray this so it doesn't stick out so much (being black against the green). Also need to get a long strip of Velcro and run that between the bottom of the rear window and the divider to get a better fit. But, for now it's fine and I feel a good use of a hour or so of my time..
Lots more little projects to come which I plan to document and post the best I can.
Stay tuned...
* NOTE: After driving the truck in the rain for the first time with the above installed I soon realized that the curtain itself needed to go on the outside of the divider (and not on the inside as it is shown above) to keep water out of the cab. This way the water rolling down the curtain would stay in the bed and not puddle up inside the divider itself. So, a quick fix and some industrial Velcro and we should be good to go..
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