E-450 Spare Tire carriers

My '98 Coachmen came with an underside-mounted carrier, as well. It's a style that has a crank mechanism with a shaft that runs to a little cover on the side of the motorhome; stick the appropriate socket or handle there, and it's not hard to wind the spare down. Getting it back up is a tiny bit trickier as the wheel tends to balance the wrong way and wants to get caught in the wrong position on the frame, so it usually involves a bit of crawling around underneath to persuade it to winch up properly. (Naturally, one does have to crawl underneath to fetch the spare after it's been winched down, or at the least to detach it from the hoist mechanism before driving forward a bit to clear it.)