Mounting the Spare Tire

Cyclonic

This discussion was created from comments split from: T@Bby needs a new pair of shoes..

Annieoakley

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jdargis

Annieoakley, 
Could you please take an overhead picture, looking down on your spare tire attachment. I have a box attached to my frame like yours and would like to move the spare forward.  Also, I have a bike rack frame to work around.
Thanks

Cyclonic

@Annieoakley
Just curious what the photo is in reference to since you provided no caption and the thread is about getting new tires.

Annieoakley

The pic was related to having problems with the spare tire.  I had a tire holder fabricated so to leave enough room for the solar hook up as well as get it off the back end. Have pulled several hundred miles and like it.  Someone liked my tire cover to,  





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JandJ92010

I hope that your tire carrier works for you. I would be a little nervous about having that much weight hangin' out there with no support under it. Looks to me that it would put a lot of strain on the tongue also with all the bouncing around that the trailer does. Just thinkin' out loud.;)

jdargis

Thanks for the pictures.

Cyclonic

JandJ92010 said:

I hope that your tire carrier works for you. I would be a little nervous about having that much weight hangin' out there with no support under it. Looks to me that it would put a lot of strain on the tongue also with all the bouncing around that the trailer does. Just thinkin' out loud.;)

It would seem that, but this is a very common setup on trailers.  These mounts are built to handle the weight of the spare bouncing around.

BTW, nice idea with the pad lock on it.

Nomad

What Cyclonic said - pretty much standard on small-medium sized boat trailer. In fact, I got my mount at a marine suppy place.