Spare Tire Mount..Rear Bumper Best Location?
We have been leaving our spare tire (mounted on rim) at home but with a upcoming trip to Arizona, we want to carry it. Is the rear bumper the best place to mount it? If so, should it be mounted in the...
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DrewE wrote:
Mine mounts under the frame, but there's a cable hoist system with a sort of hex head under a cover on the sidewall. To lower it, one only has to put an appropriate sized socket on the shaft and turn it many turns with a ratchet or whatever. (A cordless drill is very handy for that part.) Actually getting the spare out from underneath the vehicle does, of course, involve some amount of crawling around.
Hmmm ... that excellent spare tire storage and access system is just like the one that came stock on my GMC pickup.
I sure wish our motorhome's Ford E450 used that cable lower/hoist system for it's existing spare tire under-carriage rear storage area!!!
Does anyone offer a retrofit kit to convert my E450's spare tire storage into that kind of scheme? (It should not take rocket science to offer an after-market kit to do this.)
