Like a glove

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This photo is part of the 2 Door Bronco Seat Delete + Platform album and was taken in Des Moines, Iowa with an Apple iPhone 13 Pro.

It's also on Flickr.

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  • hey! this build is sick. found this from google.

    I have a 2023 2door bronco Wildtrak and I'm looking to do a similar thing soon. Im not a carpenter by any means, but I'm handy and this looks relatively simple. Just need a few questions.

    1.
    What kind of wood did you use? doesn't look like plywood

    2.
    Can you share the details of the holes + bolts you use to bolt this onto the bed? I presume you used the bolts used for the chairs, and it looks like you dont use washers – you just use two different hole diameters, thinner for the stalk of the bolt and wider for the bolt head to catch and fasten the plywood to the bed.

    Anything else you can share to make it easier for me, lemme know!

    Cory Malnarick posted

  • Thanks! The wood is cabinet grade plywood given to me by a buddy. It's got a birch veneer on one side, alder on the other, and is totally overkill, haha.

    I've got a write up with more info on the hardware and such here: derek.broox.com/blog...atform

    But to answer your question about the mounting points. I used 2 of the rear seat holes, 2 of the holes from the factory d-rings in the back, and attached to some custom built plywood supports behind the front seats.

    To align the holes on the plywood with the existing holes in the floor, I basically threaded the bolts most of the way into the floor, set the platform into place on top of them, then tapped the top of the platform with a rubber mallet, roughly above where each bolt would be. Doing this put imprints of each bolt head into the bottom of the plywood exactly where the holes should be drilled. I then counterbored the holes with the appropriately sized forstner bits to fit the bolt heads, and drilled through the center of those with a smaller bit to accommodate the bolt shanks.

    I chose pan-head allen bolts for everything so that they would be low profile, and not require a giant counterbore in order to get a socket around the outside of the head.

    Let me know if you have any other questions. Happy to help!

    derek posted