Installed my Tuffy Underseat Security Drawer today. One word of caution: the bolts holding down the seat are torqued incredibly tightly. This should have been a 10 minute job. Instead it was more like 30 minutes. Read on to learn from my mistakes.

The box. Thanks, Northridge!


This should give you an idea of the size of the drawer. It holds much more than I expected and is quite deep.


Tools you will need: 18mm socket, wrench, breaker bar, and PB Blaster.


Before you start: drench the two front 18mm bolts in PB Blaster. Go inside and eat lunch. Let the PB Blaster do its magic.

Clear the space behind where you'll be working. This is definitely a "fall on your ass" project. I made two full reverse swan dives trying to untighten the bolts. You don't want sharp or hard objects sitting behind you.


Remove the two front 18mm bolts. Sounds easy. Was very hard. I eventually had to use the PB Blaster, a hammer, and a breaker bar. YMMV.


These are big bolts. They were so hard to remove that I wondered at one point whether they were reverse-threaded. They're not. Lefty loosey, righty tighty.


Slide the drawer under the seat. It fits perfectly. You do NOT need to remove the seat. Removing the front 18mm bolts allows you to lift the seat frame enough to slide the drawer into position.


The inside leg of the drawer rests on TOP of the seat frame, as shown here:


The outside leg of the drawer goes UNDERNEATH the seat frame, as shown here:


Re-torque the two 18mm bolts. I recommend checking these in a couple of days to make sure they're still tight. This photo shows the seat all the way back and the drawer closed.


You did it! Enjoy your new Tuffy Security Drawer.


NOTE: I did not install the security bolt that can secure the rear of the drawer to the body of the Jeep. This would have involved removing two more 18mm bolts, pulling out the entire seat, and drilling a hole through the tub. But Tuffy does give you the option.

 

Great pictures and write-up! Thanks. Very interested in getting this for my Jeep.

 

Nice write-up! I had the same problem with my seat bolts, I spent about 10 seconds with the breaker bar and then broke out the impact gun Made things 1000% easier! Mine looked like they had red loctite on them.

 

Regrettably I didn't have that luxury. Damn sure wish I had, though!

 

Nice write-up. I'm thinking I might need to pick one of these up.

 

Great write up. I'm jonesing for one of these. Thanks for taking the time to document your efforts so well.

 

I ordered mine last week. Thanks for the great write up!

 

How good of a lock is on that box?

 

nice write up, thx, this has just made my short list,

 

No, you don't have to remove the back 2 bolts or remove the entire seat.

Just push the seat all the way forward, use a very small drill bit to drill at an angle, then use the proper size drill bit to drill the hole to the proper size.

I did the rear bolt in about 5 minutes without removing the seat. I did already have my carpet removed though.