Mounting DRW spare tire on front hitch

tkcrawford wrote:

ticki2 wrote:

tkcrawford wrote:
Short of custom fabrication, does anybody know of a commercially available tire carrier that will mount a dually spare tire on the front hitch? I've looked at several but none allow for the large backspace on dually rims.

Mount it with the dish facing out , like the outer rear wheel . The other side is almost flush with the tire .

On the carrier I bought (the Reese 6715) the dish on the wheel is so deep that it can't even reach the mounting flange on the carrier if I try to mount the spare so that the tire is closer to the front of the truck. If I turn the tire around so that the flange on the wheel is against the flange on the carrier, the tire sticks out a really long ways in front of the truck. Too far to be safe.

Then you have a problem...

My tire sticks out just as you say... by design., I want to get as much air to the rediator as possible.

Experiment: cut a disk the size of your wheel and tire... mount it close to the grill... watch your engines temperature gauge. Compare it to an open grill.


Your last sentence... "too far to be safe" ... what is unsafe about having it sticking out? enough to allow air flow.

Sleepy