Last week it was kinda rainy here in S Oregon and I’m topless right now so I was home for the most part while it was raining off and on and wanted to do another project. A few days before the weather came I got a matched spare (33x12.50) and needed a way to mount it. I have exhaust and evap stuff for my swap so I couldn’t hang it under the bed (I don’t even know if it’d fit or look okay if I did have room) so I figured I’d have to do something a little special. I was considering doing a swing out tire carrier but I didn't have the stuff on hand to build one strong enough or any good latch mechanism to anchor it for that matter, and I'm impatient. I remembered my girlfriend's old jeep Cherokee and how it had the spare mounted in the back cargo area. It looked okay so that was kinda my inspiration. I chose the passenger side to counterbalance (somewhat) my weight, corner to corner...
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I wanted to tie it to some point on the rig so it would be hard mounted to something to increase the rigidity, but also easy to remove (no tools required). I figured I needed a way to cradle the tire while it was tied into the rig. I used my old tire carrier for the tire mount, and then welded some legs on it so it would sit upright (the following pic is after I welded the sleeve to it, as explained below)...
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Coincidentally the bottom of the legs lined up with the bottom of the tire so everything was kinda sitting on the same plane so it held itself up nicely. I had some pipe on hand that I welded to a plate. That plate bolted to the lower part of the rollbar where the seatbelt nut is at...
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This was the point I wanted to tie into for rigidity. With the pipe sticking out of the rollbar, I pressed the tire and cradle forward against it. I snugged the front of the tire up against the pipe coming off the rollbar with a tie down. There was more deflection than I wanted so I grabbed some spare tube lying around I used to sleeve into the pipe for another project. I welded a length of that “inner sleeve” tube to some square tube, and welded the square to a plate I welded on the leg of the tire carrier. This way the carrier slides into the tube that is anchored to the rollbar. If I would have designed it rather than built it on the fly I wold have made the leg line up with the tube support, thus eliminating the plate...you'll see what I mean in the pic below. After this I wrapped a tie down from anchor point, over the back of the mount, then down to the other point...
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The rear leg isn't touching the plastic, it just sits hard in that position because the bottom of the tire is tight against the wheel well...
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Now it hardly moves at all, I can grab the tire and rock the rig side to side, it's basically all rubber jiggle. Anyhow, it worked out good and I don’t really notice it in the rearview like I thought, it’s tucked behind the p/s head rest pretty well....
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All I got to do is close up some ends and call it good for now. In the meantime I'd like to make the rear leg also with a condition to be able to slide into some tube so it mounts like the front, I think after that's done I can ditch the tie-down...
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[/URL][/URL][/URL][/URL][/URL][/URL][/URL][/URL]I wanted to tie it to some point on the rig so it would be hard mounted to something to increase the rigidity, but also easy to remove (no tools required). I figured I needed a way to cradle the tire while it was tied into the rig. I used my old tire carrier for the tire mount, and then welded some legs on it so it would sit upright (the following pic is after I welded the sleeve to it, as explained below)...
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[/URL][/URL][/URL][/URL][/URL][/URL][/URL][/URL]Coincidentally the bottom of the legs lined up with the bottom of the tire so everything was kinda sitting on the same plane so it held itself up nicely. I had some pipe on hand that I welded to a plate. That plate bolted to the lower part of the rollbar where the seatbelt nut is at...
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[/URL][/URL][/URL][/URL][/URL][/URL][/URL][/URL]This was the point I wanted to tie into for rigidity. With the pipe sticking out of the rollbar, I pressed the tire and cradle forward against it. I snugged the front of the tire up against the pipe coming off the rollbar with a tie down. There was more deflection than I wanted so I grabbed some spare tube lying around I used to sleeve into the pipe for another project. I welded a length of that “inner sleeve” tube to some square tube, and welded the square to a plate I welded on the leg of the tire carrier. This way the carrier slides into the tube that is anchored to the rollbar. If I would have designed it rather than built it on the fly I wold have made the leg line up with the tube support, thus eliminating the plate...you'll see what I mean in the pic below. After this I wrapped a tie down from anchor point, over the back of the mount, then down to the other point...
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[/URL][/URL][/URL][/URL][/URL][/URL][/URL][/URL]The rear leg isn't touching the plastic, it just sits hard in that position because the bottom of the tire is tight against the wheel well...
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[/URL][/URL][/URL][/URL][/URL][/URL][/URL][/URL]Now it hardly moves at all, I can grab the tire and rock the rig side to side, it's basically all rubber jiggle. Anyhow, it worked out good and I don’t really notice it in the rearview like I thought, it’s tucked behind the p/s head rest pretty well....
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[/URL][/URL][/URL]All I got to do is close up some ends and call it good for now. In the meantime I'd like to make the rear leg also with a condition to be able to slide into some tube so it mounts like the front, I think after that's done I can ditch the tie-down...
