3rd member carrier

[lowtideride]

I need to figure something else out for carrying spare 3rds besides a 5 gal bucket. I am going to fab somthing up out of wood so I can bolt the 3rd to that and then bolt all of it to the floor of the truck.


I was just seeing f anyone had some ideas already put to use.

Also I was wondering how everyone was keeping the spare rear axle shafts put.

Thanks,
-Al

 

[Mark W]

Take an old axle housing. Cut the diff section out of it. Weld plates across the openings of the center section, where the ends were. Weld a handle on it. bolt the spare diff into this "carrying case".

If you leave a little bit of the axle extension when you cut it, you have room to shove a baggie full of spare nuts/spider gears/whatever in there too.

ABS and PVC tubbing works well for axles/birfields.

Mark...

 

[2badfjs]

I need to figure something else out for carrying spare 3rds besides a 5 gal bucket. I am going to fab somthing up out of wood so I can bolt the 3rd to that and then bolt all of it to the floor of the truck.


I was just seeing f anyone had some ideas already put to use.

Also I was wondering how everyone was keeping the spare rear axle shafts put.

Thanks,
-Al

cut the center section of a junk axle housing, afix it in the rig somehow and bolt the diff to it. maybe recess it in the 1/4 panel, secure and stable.

axles, i just wrap them in plastic garbage bags and strap them to my roof rack.
the shorter ones i throw in a storage box.

i once thought about a box to store axles in that you could carry under the rig using the spare tire mount
it would be smaller than a tire and tuck up pretty well.

 

[2badfjs]

dang, mark beat me to it......but great minds think alike

 

[DasBeast]

8 gal. Rubbermaid Action Packer. stackable. lockable. can leave outside rig at night.