mounting spare tire on f450/550

recycler wrote:
i know there is/was several guys on this forum with f450/550 trucks wondering how you carry your spare tire..mike mck in your pics I see you have your spare under the truck..

Custom 50 Gallon tank is why the spare is mounted where it is. This was done by the company that did the truck bed conversion for the dealer long before I bought the truck. Thank god I have never had to use it. That 19.5 tire and wheel combo is a *****

thanks for the reply's the rear of the frame is getting shortened to fit a pick up bed so that fuel tank has been removed and is getting replaced with a 50 gallon Areotank midship replacement tank...I had forgot about the early f450 pickups having 19.5 have to look into the winch for one of them as building a crossmember for that would be easy compared to the rest of the projects on the truck..

I didn't think it would be easy ... just possible to use the winch.

jimh425 wrote:
Mine is in the standard location under bed since I have a normal pickup bed. The mechanism is available if you wanted to do something similar to add the winch to yours and not expensive.

That works on you truck but it won't work on a chassis cab model. Yours is built as a pickup but on the C&C that is the location of the main 40 gallon fuel tank. So it hangs down low if you tried to install a tire below it the tire would almost be on the ground.

Mine is in the standard location under bed since I have a normal pickup bed. The mechanism is available if you wanted to do something similar to add the winch to yours and not expensive.

Reality Check wrote:
Don't carry one, still. I carry spares on every trailer, even two spares for some, but after a couple of decades of dual's, both work and pleasure, none of them carry spares. I can think of two flats, and both came off construction site damage.

It's a good consideration, especially if you are seriously boon docking. To me, that would be alone, out of phone service and farther and in conditions that I wouldn't be comfortable driving with a single and farther than I could get out and back in a day for a change out.

I think of it a few different ways. At work, there are options that are much more economical that carrying a spare around, losing the space, etc. On pleasure, am I really in that big a hurry? Even if I lost one out in the back-forty somewhere, worse case is; drop the camper, take the flat off, and drive to town.

Choices..

You make some good points. Even though I carried a spare I also carry a tire plug kit and an air compressor. So for most of the time I could repair and inflate in the field unless I have cut a sidewall.

Don't carry one, still. I carry spares on every trailer, even two spares for some, but after a couple of decades of dual's, both work and pleasure, none of them carry spares. I can think of two flats, and both came off construction site damage.

It's a good consideration, especially if you are seriously boon docking. To me, that would be alone, out of phone service and farther and in conditions that I wouldn't be comfortable driving with a single and farther than I could get out and back in a day for a change out.

I think of it a few different ways. At work, there are options that are much more economical that carrying a spare around, losing the space, etc. On pleasure, am I really in that big a hurry? Even if I lost one out in the back-forty somewhere, worse case is; drop the camper, take the flat off, and drive to town.

Choices..

I had a front tire carrier on my F550. I installed a front hitch and then had a tire carrier built for it. It worked great but thankfully I never had a flat to force me to take the spare down because those buggers are heavy. When I pulled my 5ers with the truck before the front mount and camper I lifted the spare into the bed of the truck.
I couldn't put mine under the truck as I had a pickup bed and the optional fuel tank on it also. It carried right at 60 gallons of fuel.

It never affected the cooling on the truck. These truck have so much cooling in them that it won't affect it.

I had my spare tire mounted on the passenger side of the frame. Right behind the back seat. I assume you will have a flatbed? There is 32 inches from the side of the frame to the outside edge of the cab. The tire fits perfect. I put the tire there on my Dodge 4500 a well. I cut out the back of my aluminum boxes. To make to look right. But the tire is resting on a steel cradle.