{"id":2134,"date":"2021-01-04T17:50:21","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T09:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projectkeira.com\/home\/?p=2134"},"modified":"2021-09-26T04:57:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T20:57:37","slug":"can-you-dig-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.projectkeira.com\/home\/can-you-dig-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Dig It"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I bought a shovel…<\/p>\n

Myself and some friends were discussing hitting some trails in 2021, and somehow it led to me ordering a shovel and some installation parts from Amazon that same day. It was random, but sometimes it just happens. Anyways, the shovel is a Bond <\/strong>Mini D-Handle Shovel, <\/strong>and the item description does say “Perfect for gardening, camping, off-road<\/strong><\/span><\/em> or beach use” – so there you go LOL:<\/p>\n

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After some quick brainstorming I decided I was going to mount the shovel onto my truck bed’s Utilitrack rail. Some even quicker research gave me the most popular method to mount things to the Nissan Utilitrack rails: the combination of Quick Fist<\/strong> rubber clamps,\u00a0 3\/8″ Spring Nuts, and some matching hardware (ignore the bag of molded knobs, I returned those):<\/p>\n

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Installation was very simple. First I drilled out the holes in the Quick Fist clamps just enough to fit a 3\/8″ bolt snugly. I then used a standard fender washer on the outside of the Utilitrack rail and the spring nut on the inside of the rail to hold it all together (along with a few drops of Loctite blue threadlocker):<\/p>\n

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With the shovel in place, all is good. The shovel is held very tightly by the Quick Fist clamps, but with a quick tug at the clamp straps I can get the shovel out when I need it. This quick shovel install was just the beginning of some off-roady things that I had lined up for 2021 =X<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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