I just bought an aluminum tool box at Home Depot. It's a $249.00 box for $125.00! It has a small dent above the right side button! Imagine that, $124.00 dent! HA! So, now I need to find some lights for it, and do this mod next week when I have another day off. I think it's a very good one mod, especially since the tool box lid is hinged all the way across and would block the light from the cab outside bed light.

 

Just go to Wally world and score you a pair like I did for $4 bucks! I think you could actually make do with one if you wanted.

 

I did this on my work truck as well, only after putting the lights in I realized I needed more power in the tool box for other items (battery charger for my cordless tools, etc). Anyway, I put a fuse block in the box and ran 8ga. through grommets, loom covering, etc. to the fuse block then I was able to tap off inside the tool box for up to 6 lines. I used push button toggles (normally on) mounted to the top of the deck so when the lid is opened the lights would go on, I also drilled and put in small flashing LED on the outside of the toolbox so just in case the lights were on while the lid is closed I would see the LED on in my mirror....did'nt want to go to start only to find out my battery was killed by the lights being on with the lid closed. For the lights I used the readily available tail light replacement sockets that use the dual filament bulb (9157?), these are very bright & I mounted them to the top of the lid so they would send light down from above while digging in my toolbox instead of blinding me by being down low. So after all this I decided I needed an inverter to run my chop saw and replaced the 8ga. with 2ga pos. & neg. routed along frame into bottom of toolbox to my 2000w inverter, tapped the 8ga. to the fuse block at the 2ga. inverter pos. Now I can run my 120v chop saw and charge my cordless DeWalt batteries. I got tired of having to unplug the chargers so I wired in a relay to the fuse block and now it only gets power when the engine is running....another handy use for my remote start system.

The point of my post............................it all started with not wanting to use a flashlight and turned into hours of labor, never ending possibilities, now I spend more time thinking of what else I can do in there then I did just using a flashlight!

 

OK, that's just OCD! LOL!

I was happy to repeat what he did to his SD with my little F-150 Home Depot toolbox and you have to show me something else that needs to be done! LOL!

As much as I might want to replicate some of what you did, I think I'll pass. Sounds all very good however.

 

I would just watch the wires as the toolbox can cut into them and cause a short.

 

Looks good though

 

Absolutely, put some rubber grommets or at the least, fill the hole with silicone while using tape to hold the wires in the middle until it dries, you can even use the silicone trick to hold the wires wherever you want instead of those sticky tape things that always fall off in the heat. Aluminum can be quite beautiful when it burns but you won't want that to see that happen on your truck.

 

good just couldn't really tell by the pick