Well, I guess I made the hubby feel bad this morning when he was leaving to go help his friend. He came back about an hour later and we ended up actually doing something to my Jeep. We started out making a kayak holder, but ended up making a winch hitch mount. LOL We got the back figured out with a pole that comes up from the receiver but then we moved to the front and was going to duplicate that same concept, but I got to looking at it and realized, I don't have a 20 foot kayak. LOL It would have been way to far apart to carry a 12 foot kayak.
Before you look at the pic, I warn you, my hubby is a jack of all trades master of none. LOL It's not pretty but I think it will do the trick. I just got done painting it for temporary in this pic.
We put a hitch in it with a eye bolt recovery thing. Yah, still need to learn all the names of these things. LOL
I will need to eventually relocate my light bar, but the plan is to get one of the hitch style plates that hold a winch. That way I can put it up front or back or just leave it home while I commute to work and back.
I also installed a light in the back that I will eventually splice into the back up lights. Need to figure out what wire goes to it first.
One of these day I plan on taking the bumper and all off and I need to finish attaching the metal we added to the bumper. He welded the top but wants to bolt the bottom. Once that is done I will use that bed liner paint to paint everything.
We also will have to make a windshield type mount bar for the kayak. I'm going through my options for either buying some brackets that are already made for mounting to the Jeep, then just have hubby ad the bar, or have hubby make the brackets and all. I would just buy a complete bar but they don't look like they would go high enough.
fairly steady.
