Thread: Ideas for securing camping fridge.

On my RRC, I rivetted 2 lengths of 3/16 steel to the floor which is corrugated in a late RRC, with several large rivets . This eis because the fuel tank is immediately below.

I then put bolts through from within a corrugation with a nut on the top side. then drilled appropriate holes in the slide and mats to meet the bolts.

This sounds a bit anal I know, but it makes it easy to fit and remove the slide as all you have to do is locate it onto the bolts and do up nuts.
Seeing I do not take it out now, I have been considering removing teh steel plates and just putting Rivnuts in the floor.

Regards Philip A

Damo,

1x Sheet of Ply (16mm) the width of cargo area x depth of cargo area..

4x bolts & Washers, same thread as factory cargo tie down points (I think 8mm)

1x suitable length of Auto Carpet



1/ Cut Ply to fit neatly in floor space.... Affix Carpet to Ply
2/ Drill 4 holes in ply to match tie down points
3/ Bolt fridge slide to board
4/ Remove factory tie downs and bolt the board to floor using 8mm bolts and washers

Originally Posted by PhilipA

On my RRC, I rivetted 2 lengths of 3/16 steel to the floor which is corrugated in a late RRC, with several large rivets . This eis because the fuel tank is immediately below.

I then put bolts through from within a corrugation with a nut on the top side. then drilled appropriate holes in the slide and mats to meet the bolts.

This sounds a bit anal I know, but it makes it easy to fit and remove the slide as all you have to do is locate it onto the bolts and do up nuts.
Seeing I do not take it out now, I have been considering removing teh steel plates and just putting Rivnuts in the floor.

Regards Philip A

Wow Philip...

I doubt either method would actually restrain the fridge in an impact...

The rivets or rivnuts would just pull through the sheet metal...

I hope you have a cargo barrier

I just ratchet strap mine to the tie down points in Smokey and climb in and out.........not like I don't need the exercise ,

Regards

Stevo

Originally Posted by PhilipA

On my RRC, I rivetted 2 lengths of 3/16 steel to the floor which is corrugated in a late RRC, with several large rivets . This eis because the fuel tank is immediately below.

I then put bolts through from within a corrugation with a nut on the top side. then drilled appropriate holes in the slide and mats to meet the bolts.

This sounds a bit anal I know, but it makes it easy to fit and remove the slide as all you have to do is locate it onto the bolts and do up nuts.
Seeing I do not take it out now, I have been considering removing teh steel plates and just putting Rivnuts in the floor.

Regards Philip A

I'm not sure that it would be that secure in an accident. I did this to get secure tiedowns in my RRC - see half way down in the Storage section: Ron's Range Rover Classic Modifications

Thanks guys. So a false floor is the best option so it seems. I assume the existing tie down loops are bolted in and there is a captive nut below? Are there any other captive nuts on the floorspace aside from the 4 where the tie downs are?

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Wow Philip...

I doubt either method would actually restrain the fridge in an impact...

The rivets or rivnuts would just pull through the sheet metal...

well I did do research.
Each rivet has a rated load of 470Newtons in shear through sheet metal. I have I think about 6 on each steel plate.These are 4.7 MM steel rivets.

Impacts would usually be in shear unless a roll over. The fridge weighs 20Kg plus contents maybe 40 kg. There would have to many more Gs than I would live through for that to move.

I also have a barrier in case of roll over where Gs would be much lower.

Regards Philip A

In a 60km/h crash the fridge will generate in excess of 10kNewtons..... You're covered for around 5.5kNewtons and that only works if the force was applied in a linear manner, however it's more likely the rearward rivets will get a lot more and sheer in fractions of a second increasing the load placed on the rest.