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And your assuming everyone on here knows what that looks like or how it mounted. Your gonna have to come with a little more than that if you want some help............. :lecture:
First thing that comes to mind is reinforcing the sheet metal on the body where the hinge mounts are - you'll have to dig in behind the interior trim and fab up supports for those. Same goes for the tailgate where you'd mount the latch - I wouldn't trust the fiberglass hatch to hold up to the stress over time without some major fabbing and reinforcement. Over time (even without major wheeling stresses/shocks) the load of the carrier+tire will crack the steel/fiberglass with the day-to-day vibration and jolts of on-road driving. Too much work/$$ when other much better options are available.
'Course I'm the guy who's spare is laying in the cargo area 'cause I'm too cheap/lazy to buy/fab a trick tire carrier :gag:
I have one in my shop and there is almost no way to do it unless you spent about as much as it would cost to buy. The latch is on the tailgate, on the GMs this is a hunk of crap.
It did not want to come off the Blazer, had to sawzall the rear-quarter...Thanks for the input, I guess this'd have to be one of those rainy week projects.