Rare as hens teeth…

[wdukes]

45 spare tire frame/holder.
I have this 45 just about where I want it and really need the spare tire holder. I know it’s a long shot. Anybody? Help is much appreciated.

 

[65swb45]

I had to buy another 45 to pirate the tire holder from for my swb resto. And that was 30 years ago! Only seen one more since. GLWS

 

[wdukes]

I had to buy another 45 to pirate the tire holder from for my swb resto. And that was 30 years ago! Only seen one more since. GLWS

Isn't it amazing how things have changed. Not just rare parts...How many perfectly nice, original paint, rare 45s have been sanded down to put shiny new paint on them? I'm guilty. Cant remember ever selling a 45 I wanted to. Changing economy and circumstances. Truth is, these rigs were really used as 4x4s. Many owners took stuff off they didn't need. The truck was a rancher's tool. Even swapping in an American straight six or V8 because parts were easier to come by.

 

[Lifelong40Fan]

I agree. The need for OEM down to stressing over stickers and fasteners is a bit silly and only for a very few. I expect that most 45 owners were much more pragmatic and saw it as a great utility vehicle. I’m definitely in that camp. I love these trucks and prefer OEM, but there are definitely areas on these rigs that can be improved for my purposes.

 

[NOSAJ]

I also struggle with everything OEM to an extent on the LV. Mine is so far gone. No floors, no engine, or transmission, or steering column. My struggle in my mind is with the floor and trying to make every single rib in the floor perfect, perfectly spaced apart and exact in every way to original. Then I think just throw a piece of sheet metal in it cover it with carpet or a mat sound deadening and be done and be driving it for cheaper and a decade earlier! No one including me will see a perfect floor!! I want a driver to fly fish, camp and ski out of not a museum piece. But then again that sheet metal floor would probably bug me…and I wonder why I can’t make a decision and finish a project!

 

[65swb45]

I think it’s different if you’ve never had a resto, bc then you’re partially driven by curiosity: to see if you can actually do it. I did it once, with the swb. Would I do it again? No. It’s way more enjoyable to me to have a vehicle that I can USE.

I made a vow with the lwb that it would never be down for more than two weeks. I only broke that vow once, when I put the rebuilt F135 in in 2001. Then I gave myself three weeks.

I’m starting down the rabbit hole again with the Karma Cruiser. Two weeks. It will not be a frame off resto. But it WILL get wheeled. That I guarantee.

I have a LOT of friends on this forum that have over a decade in their builds. IMO, that’s a ridiculous opportunity cost. I was telling @majdomo last week about the 60 that used to belong to @calfj60, which had been in three different shops for a total of 3 years when I met Tim. After a cursory review of the rig, I told him to cut his losses and dump the truck, buy something that ran, AND NOT TOUCH IT! He’d already lost three years of camping with his wife and daughter. Three years that he would never get back.

He called me six months later, told me he’d done as I suggested, had already been out camping a few times in his stock 80 series. More importantly, he said it was the best life advice anyone had ever given him.

 

[Terrax]

45 spare tire frame/holder.
I have this 45 just about where I want it and really need the spare tire holder. I know it’s a long shot. Anybody? Help is much appreciated.

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Nice 45!! Why don't you go a bit on the modern era and get a 70 series spare tire holder? Here's my setup

 

[Lifelong40Fan]

But then again that sheet metal floor would probably bug me…and I wonder why I can’t make a decision and finish a project!

I expect it won’t bother you too much when in the rear view mirror you see the kids smiling in the back as you drive down the road.

Much of life is counting the costs. Sometimes we have to tell ourselves to shut up. Or, at least I do!

 

[65swb45]

I expect it won’t bother you too much when in the rear view mirror you see the kids smiling in the back as you drive down the road.

Much of life is counting the costs. Sometimes we have to tell ourselves to shut up. Or, at least I do!

A a service manager put it to me once: sometime you just have to know when it’s time to close the hood.

 

[ceylonfj40nut]

Isnt the tire carrier holder just hollow rolled steel tube? Seems like it could be easily replicated?

 

[65swb45]

Isnt the tire carrier holder just hollow rolled steel tube? Seems like it could be easily replicated?

Hollow or not, I agree. Way easier to repop than some of the things being attempted these days. That said, I have a niggling memory that the engine crank handle project stalled, which is the only other round stock project I can remember. I think that was Weber Sarge, and he’s been gone for a decade.

 

[thabruiser]

Sage advice in this thread.

 

[majdomo]

A a service manager put it to me once: sometime you just have to know when it’s time to close the hood.

You have no idea how timely this is. lol.

 

[wdukes]

Nice 45!! Why don't you go a bit on the modern era and get a 70 series spare tire holder? Here's my setup

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I do like that this is Toyota. I did add one to my other 45, but it wasnt Toyo. This might even work for an LV that has had the tire holder removed. Are these still available?

Thanks for pointing these out.

 

[Terrax]

I do like that this is Toyota. I did add one to my other 45, but it wasnt Toyo. This might even work for an LV that has had the tire holder removed. Are these still available?

Thanks for pointing these out.

I bought mine from a fellow mudder (Dan Marsh) I believe you can get it through Partsouq

 

[Deny]

I think @crawlin cruiser used a HZJ79 under box tire carrier for his FJ45 build and apparently it fit just like stock. Not sure if he still has any left but he had a bunch from new take off mine trucks, that or try directly from Toyota.

Edit found his thread in the FJ45 classifieds:
Spare tire chain carrier

 

[3_puppies]

this one was listed and sold 2 years ago:

SOLD - 1966 FJ45 LPB spare tire holder and brackets

Anyone need a 1965-67 FJ45 spare tire carrier ? I also have the brackets that mount to the frame. I’m missing the locking pin and bolt. I have no idea on price. Maybe someone will chime in… Feel free to shoot me a pm if interested.

forum.ih8mud.com

maybe post a wanted in the classifieds?? you never know what is available out there