LOOKING IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES

TRUENORTH60 wrote:
I am currently trying to find the metal frame that supports the walls of my 2008 Greyhawk. My spare tire is mounted on a four foot piece of 2" square tube welded to the back bumper. Of course this is like a huge inverted pendulum and the tire rocks back and forth as we are driving down the road.

THE GOOD PART - The site of a big tire rocking back and forth on the back bumper does tend to keep people from tail-gating!!

THE BAD PART - Sooner or later it will fatigue the metal bumper and fall off. It will probably fall onto the car hood of someone who is a really good lawyer . . . . . .

SO I want to attach the upper part of the 2" tube to something substantial in the rear wall. I know. I know. Looking for something substantial in a motorhome wall is probably a fool's errand. But I do remember seeing pictures of a frame made of square steel tube that supports the walls of our motorhomes but cannot find it in mine.

Does anyone have any ideas about where I could get a diagramme of this frame? I have tried scanning with an I.R. imager looking for cool lines indicating the steel tube. I have tried stud sensors. I have drilled pilot holes. I have made sacrifices (burned hotdogs on the grill) and have resorted to some silly weak cursing.:h

All to no avail.

Please send ideas, hope or cash!!;)

Is your Greyhawk built on a Ford E450 chassis?

If so, perhaps you could have a tire holding rack mounted up under the chassis in the rear in between the frame rails after the fuel tank - just like it is in many pickup trucks.

Thanks where my Class C motorhome's mounted spare tire is on it's E450 chassis.