Rear bumper spare tire carrier
My 2001 Sunnybrook fiver came with a bumper mounted spare carrier. It broke off at the vertical support along the road after a few years. The replacement has now broken. I have looked at the ones o...
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Here are pictures of my arrangement from Winnebago.
The rear frame of the vehicle has a steel plate welded across the back of it, and the bumper is attached to that plate. This plate also serves as an anchor point for the rear tow hitch. The plate has a section of C-channel welded in place behind it, and a vertical section of C-channel is bolted to that.
So Winnebago basically made a welded frame extension to which the bumper, and the spare tire, mount to.
So it's not really mounted to the bumper, so much as to a welded assembly welded to the frame.
The rear frame of the vehicle has a steel plate welded across the back of it, and the bumper is attached to that plate. This plate also serves as an anchor point for the rear tow hitch. The plate has a section of C-channel welded in place behind it, and a vertical section of C-channel is bolted to that.
So Winnebago basically made a welded frame extension to which the bumper, and the spare tire, mount to.
So it's not really mounted to the bumper, so much as to a welded assembly welded to the frame.
