I looked and realized I don't have any good overall current pics. I will take some and post them up with details on the truck.

 

Same i'd love to hear the info on the sizes of tires, etc. Any upgrades to the driveshafts/axles/differentials?

 

Awesome job! I like that you've kept the spare close to the vehicle. Some of the readily-available spare tire carriers out there I don't care for because they stick out so far from the door.

 

Thanks! I was trying to keep it as close as possible. This bumper gives a great departure angle and I didn't want the spare tire to have a negative effect.

 

Great job on the swingaway. I hope mine turns out as good. I dropped by the welder today and the project is on... but it may take a couple weeks. Couple differences I'm doing:

- swings from driver side, so I can put a fold down table on the back side.
- t-handle spring pin to lock the carrier open at 90 or 115 degrees
- latch is going to be a "corner" bracket, so the carrier arm fits in, taking the weight off the spindle and preventing forward-to-back movement. Right-angle toggle clamp to secure.
- using an old wheel hub for the mount

 

Looking forward to seeing how yours comes out. I may do a carrier lock in the future. When closed I also wanted the weight to be supported by the bumper and not just the spindle. Where mine attaches to the bumper there are both vertical and horizontal clamping handles that go through both the carrier and UHMW polyethylene blocks. The blocks prevent metal to metal contact. When closed the weight is on one of the blocks. The only way I could get rid of the front to back movement with the carrier closed was the additional attachment point on the door(which at least is no longer taking any weight). The movement seemed to all be from flex in the bumper itself.

 

If you are still looking for ideas.... I have my swing away attached via a linkage to the rear door. This allows the swing away to open with the rear door. The linkage to the rear door is attached to a modified factory spare tire carrier bracket.

 

That's a cool design too, a guy on discoweb has something similar. For me, the benefit of having a fold down table outweighs the benefit of being able to open it with the door. Flat surfaces are a premium in the bush, and carrying a separate table is an awkward hassle.

Go dawgs!

 

Yes, go DAWGS! If I recollect correctly, did you used to live in Seattle?

 

Personally, l'd rather have the tire and door swing the same direction, that way you're not walking around a protruding item on each side of the vehicle. This would get annoying to me, but l'm old an tire easily. Another thing, over on the Overland Expedition site...a guy had his latch break and his tire carrier hit the guardrail. Which l'd prefer...over oncoming traffic. Guess you could build-in a an extra safety latch or something. Just throwing this info out there for further thought.

As far as a table goes...l've been thinking about taking a piece of plywood, 3'X2', and add a piece of angle iron on the back edge, with two steel dowel pins on each end of the angle, add some sort of simple bracket to the quarter panel of the rover that only protrudes an inch or less (make them rounded on each end to not get caught up on branches and stuff) that the dowels can drop into, and have a rope that attaches to the rack for the outer edge. A 3X2 piece of plywood is pretty easy to store. Anyhow, just more thoughts.

​​​​​​​Love all of the tire carrier ideas folks, great work too!

Brian.