Looking for a drawing of the door mount tire carrier

mikkelborg · Post by **mikkelborg** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:50 pm

Does anybody have a good, dimensioned drawing of the B-1 style spare tire carrier? The thread about making spotlight pedestal mounts a while back got me thinking about building my own spare tire carrier. From the pictures I have seen they do not look very complicated. I'm thinking that a few junk yarded parts from something like a ford bronco swinging tire carrier and some fabrication could yield a very good stand in for people on a tight budget. Of course, I would like to make it as close to the correct specifications as possible. Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Collin

NebM37 · Post by **NebM37** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 2:58 pm

I have one off i could photograph in detail if you'd like. I would think the hardest part would be recreating the latching mechanism, that's a bit intricate.

NoRM

mikkelborg · Post by **mikkelborg** » Tue Feb 23, 2010 5:25 pm

If it were not too much trouble that would be very helpful, especially if you lay down a tape measure for scale. I could probably make a decent drawing based off that.

Thank you,
Collin

Carter · Post by **Carter** » Wed Feb 24, 2010 8:42 am

You will also need the brace for the cab interior at the front of the door post which welds to the floor.

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mikkelborg · Post by **mikkelborg** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:51 pm

Thanks for sharing the drawing Carter. I actually don't need the brace, my truck is a B-1 and the old brace and the part of the latch on the body are still intact.

Collin

Carter · Post by **Carter** » Fri Feb 26, 2010 8:02 am

It's good that you already have one, that will save a lot of fabrication time and effort.