Stock tire carrier

SanDiegoOverland · Jan 28, 2011

Strengthening stock tire carrier? It's the angled bumper mount style.

Mine is fine once its closed, but when it's open it's like a wet noodle.

I want to be able to load it with a tire, fuel and a few other things like a Trasharoo full of firewood.

anyone done this before? Maybe by tying it into my trailer hitch?

karstic · Jan 28, 2011

Do you have all the brackets? IIRC there is one that goes from the lower bumper mount to the rear frame.

SanDiegoOverland · Jan 29, 2011

karstic said:
Do you have all the brackets? IIRC there is one that goes from the lower bumper mount to the rear frame.

yeah, that's a good question.

I do have a bracket that sandwiches the bumper to the outside main bracket. It bolts in two places to a sheetmetal bulkhead aft and to the right of the gas tank. that's it, though.

The angled style only has one connection point at the bumper

souske · Jan 29, 2011

maybe use a larger diameter bolt as a pivot

karstic · Jan 29, 2011

SanDiegoOverland said:
yeah, that's a good question.

I do have a bracket that sandwiches the bumper to the outside main bracket. It bolts in two places to a sheetmetal bulkhead aft and to the right of the gas tank. that's it, though.

The angled style only has one connection point at the bumper

My mistake, I thought you were talking about the early style of tire carrier

SanDiegoOverland · Jan 29, 2011

souske said:
maybe use a larger diameter bolt as a pivot

Thats a good idea for sure, but most if not all of the movement is coming from the stock bumper being made from the same material as a jiffy pop container.

I was thinking a "detours-like" subframe attached to the hitch would do nicely.

Maybe something that slips into and is plugwelded onto the open end of the main square hitch tube?

SanDiegoOverland · Jan 29, 2011

karstic said:
My mistake, I thought you were talking about the early style of tire carrier

No worries at all. No matter the style, your question is definitely valid. I should probably find a factory diagram to see if i do, in fact, have all the pieces.

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