Putting bed extension shelf back!!

[acer]

Has anyone modified the fixings so you can take in and out like the previous type. The inclining idea is a waste of time IMO, but to take it out to carry large things is a very big plus.

True. Great flexibility of function and a big plus, but only if it works.

Perhaps you’ve got a different bed extension to Pugmeister and me? This bed extension is designed to go in and out.

My video in post 19 shows the situation after I had spent 30 minutes getting it back in position. However, although both brackets appear to be fixed onto the lugs at either side of the van, I’m left with the board moving above the grey retaining clips visible on the surface. Is this normal? It doesn’t feel right. If not right. Does everyone think that I haven’t put the bed extension back correctly after all?

I’m really stuck!
I wish the board was

 

[Keith Smith]

I’ve taken mine out and replaced it with a plywood box. Although I could get it in and out it bashed the sides of the wardrobe unit and I thought I would end up damaging something as I often need to remove it to carry things.

 

[acer]

I’ve taken mine out and replaced it with a plywood box. Although I could get it in and out it bashed the sides of the wardrobe unit and I thought I would end up damaging something as I often need to remove it to carry things.

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Good work, but I'm reluctant to do this to my brand new van.

 

[Keith Smith]

Good work, but I'm reluctant to do this to my brand new van.

Mines brand new, I did this in the first week we had it. I’ve unbolted the two fixings but otherwise the van is untouched. I could put it all back in less than an hour and that includes 45 minutes trying to remember where I put the fixings.

 

[ourcaliforniakid]

Did exactly the same this morning! Managed to get the unit back in with a couple of minor scrapes - not touching it again!

 

[acer]

The old metal mesh on the SE was so much better
Does everyone’s board wobble about, even when fixed underneath correctly? i.e the grey retaining clips don’t actually retain?

 

[Viktorgeorge]

The old metal mesh on the SE was so much better
Does everyone’s board wobble about, even when fixed underneath correctly? i.e the grey retaining clips don’t actually retain?

I have a similar ‘wobble’ @acer.

I have had my shelf out a few times. It was quite a struggle to put get out and put back (on my own) even after watching California Chris’s helpful YouTube on this. I have now put some markers on the opposite joining parts so that I drop in and align the metal under carriage correctly before sliding the shelf and framework back towards the back seat: to click it in.

I suspect the wobble was always there as I cannot see anything wrong with the frame alignment and fixings. It does not rattle when driving and with stuff on top of the shelf the wobble is of course curtailed.

But, if others with a 6.1 Ocean - who perhaps have never taken their shelf out - have an entirely wobble-free shelf with retaining clips that hold the shelf firmly in place I would be interested, as I have wondered why those two grey retaining clips seem to do nothing.