Alright, so I am a certified tinkerer. I have an affinity for taking on projects, and communicating with others that share this gift / curse of not being able to stop building things. (Skip down to the photos if you are like me and look at just the photos in magazines with no intention of reading the articles.)
Since life blessed me with the gift of ideas, gab, and my home workshop.. I created this thread to share such ideas with like minded people who might enjoy any of the projects that come up.
I purchased my 2016 P1KEPS in 2018 used. The previous owner had modified it with led lights, stereo, fox shocks, a winch, windscreen, and big mud tires on 14" wheels. I added a KFI composite plow, a rear window, and I just swapped over to Kumho M/T truck tires. The next project I'm working on is going to be a fiberglass bed cover in it's final version.
Since I'm naturally inclined to build things out of wood, the first version is going to consist of a wooden frame and shell, covered in a hard medium and coated in epoxy paint. Ideally if I take this design into production at some point in the future the shell would consist of just fiberglass, and or an aluminum shell for weight savings.
The features I considered as I'm building this are as follow:
- Must be tall enough to fit camping gear, fuel cans, chain saw cases, small propane tanks, and 5 gallon buckets with room to spare.
- Must have useful side pockets inside to hold surplus ammo cans for medical supplies, and other small goods.
- Must fit snugly onto the bed rails to allow a seal.
- Must fit with the Honda genuine accessory rear window without touching it, or blocking the rear window view.
- Must be able to attach securely to the existing plastic bed without more than 4 mounting points.
- Must tilt with the dump bed feature, without contacting anything, or having to remove the shell.
- Must look aesthetically similar to the style lines already on the exterior of the Pioneer.
- Must be as water tight as possible without re-designing the tailgate which of course will always allow water in.
- Must not have any hardware on the sides that can be caught or damaged by branches.
- Must have a means of locking rear door, to provide secure storage when away from the vehicle.
- Must have a rear door that folds completely up and out of the way so that taller users do not need to duck down to utilize the bed when the door is opened to gain access to rear cargo.
- Must fasten to the bed with no more than 4 minimally in
So far, I've completed a wooden frame, and covered it in 1/8 plywood and countersunk all the hardware then back-filled all the screw heads for a flush exterior finish. Next will be the rear door and hinge with locking hardware. This is actually a bigger challenge than it seems, though I've got an idea in the works I will be trying to build the door this week and updating new photos as I go along.
Glad to be part of this great forum, hope at the very least I might inspire some of you other tinkerers to get out in the garage and build something!
This is where I'm at as of 1/7/19.
I hope to have completed the rear hatch, and perhaps the inside storage ideas this week. Exterior finish is weather permitting. I need to sand outside, as I made a mess of the entire shop trying to sand indoors to stay warm as you can see in the photos.
Since life blessed me with the gift of ideas, gab, and my home workshop.. I created this thread to share such ideas with like minded people who might enjoy any of the projects that come up.
I purchased my 2016 P1KEPS in 2018 used. The previous owner had modified it with led lights, stereo, fox shocks, a winch, windscreen, and big mud tires on 14" wheels. I added a KFI composite plow, a rear window, and I just swapped over to Kumho M/T truck tires. The next project I'm working on is going to be a fiberglass bed cover in it's final version.
Since I'm naturally inclined to build things out of wood, the first version is going to consist of a wooden frame and shell, covered in a hard medium and coated in epoxy paint. Ideally if I take this design into production at some point in the future the shell would consist of just fiberglass, and or an aluminum shell for weight savings.
The features I considered as I'm building this are as follow:
- Must be tall enough to fit camping gear, fuel cans, chain saw cases, small propane tanks, and 5 gallon buckets with room to spare.
- Must have useful side pockets inside to hold surplus ammo cans for medical supplies, and other small goods.
- Must fit snugly onto the bed rails to allow a seal.
- Must fit with the Honda genuine accessory rear window without touching it, or blocking the rear window view.
- Must be able to attach securely to the existing plastic bed without more than 4 mounting points.
- Must tilt with the dump bed feature, without contacting anything, or having to remove the shell.
- Must look aesthetically similar to the style lines already on the exterior of the Pioneer.
- Must be as water tight as possible without re-designing the tailgate which of course will always allow water in.
- Must not have any hardware on the sides that can be caught or damaged by branches.
- Must have a means of locking rear door, to provide secure storage when away from the vehicle.
- Must have a rear door that folds completely up and out of the way so that taller users do not need to duck down to utilize the bed when the door is opened to gain access to rear cargo.
- Must fasten to the bed with no more than 4 minimally in
So far, I've completed a wooden frame, and covered it in 1/8 plywood and countersunk all the hardware then back-filled all the screw heads for a flush exterior finish. Next will be the rear door and hinge with locking hardware. This is actually a bigger challenge than it seems, though I've got an idea in the works I will be trying to build the door this week and updating new photos as I go along.
Glad to be part of this great forum, hope at the very least I might inspire some of you other tinkerers to get out in the garage and build something!
This is where I'm at as of 1/7/19.
I hope to have completed the rear hatch, and perhaps the inside storage ideas this week. Exterior finish is weather permitting. I need to sand outside, as I made a mess of the entire shop trying to sand indoors to stay warm as you can see in the photos.
