Custom Maglite Flash Light Mounting Bracket

I was surprised to learn that the company has an account with Grainger and in doing so, they had to run down the block from the closest location to buy a few shop products. While there my wife, was given the Maglite mounting clips after informing the counter person we’ve just bought a new 2017 Wrangler.

We already had the 20+ year old Maglite, and now the clips. yet we didn’t know what was the best way to attach the Maglite in the jeep. I did some searching and found a site called Project JK which described how they though these Maglite clips should be mounted. The plans were simple enough except for one critical flaw.. The door had to be open in order to retrieve the flashlight.


Holding the Maglite in the general location as the image above shows, We concluded that the seat adjust handle would hinder ones ability to retrieve the Maglite from inside the vehicle. We opted to swap sides to mount the Maglite but include a relocation mounting plate which holds the Maglite in a more accessible orientation.



Two plates where created, drilled and fitted. Then sent to the shop, where as they sanded and then forwarded these plates to the painters.



One week has passed and we’re still waiting on the completion of these plates. In the image above, you can see the last stage of these plates just for reference and the correct orientation of the flashlights. The odd thing here, Is that Project JK drilled holes in the seat frame rails to mount their clips. In our case we simply drilled holes in our plate to match up with preexisting holes in the frame rail.



We’ve already test fitted these relocation plates and now await on the painters as they are suppose to powder coat these plates black for us. Mind you I have been saying “plates”. we created two plates just so we could give one away to some lucky Jeep Wrangler drive we may happen to meet on the road.

The bracket's powder coating turned out very well and mounting the bracket in the desired locations was successful, The only thing that wasn't so successful was the actual Maglite plastic clips. One clip broke (rear) after just one use.


Note in the image above, the broken rear plastic clip..

We're currently searching for metal "pipe clip" with the same dimensions as the plastic clips. Once this has been accomplished we should be good to go.

Several weeks of searching, we get a suggestion by another jeeper, who said that "Rugged Ridge" has a power coated steel version which would be more durable.


Thus we ordered the Rugged Ridge version and installed it soon after it arrived. The plate has been working very well, so well, that Molle Platform Solutions is willing to make you one of these plates. Just remember, avoid the maglite plastic clips when installing this plate.

One can use rivets or screws to attach the plate to the seat frame rail as we did and all without drilling any frame rail holes. We simply used 2 holes already on the frame rail for mounting.

Last bit of info here, One of the forum members asked, If this plate was large enough to be used for a small fire extinguisher.. We tested this also and it does fit. Now you can either have a Maglite by your side or a small extinguisher. As for the second plate.. While driving around on our travels, we spotted a jeep we liked and simply gave the mounting plate to the fellow.