L322, 2004, spare tyre carrier.

[RSW Vogue 2004]

G'day All,
I have used the search function to not much advantage, I can remember some members toying with the idea of a spare wheel carrier swing arm.
Can someone please direct me in the vicinity of this information.
Cheers

[Graeme]

I can't spot the thread where mine is shown but here's a picture of the one that I built. It's pivot is further out than it needs to be due to allowing for tailgate clearance when lowered of a jerrycan between the wheel and the car but the arm was re-worked which reduced the gap which now isn't wide enough for the jerrycan.
I also wouldn't make it bolt to the tongue again, instead having its own tube into the tow-bar receiver.
It has a bracket to the tow hook to prevent sideways rocking, a problem encountered with a similar bar that I made for my D2.

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G'day Graeme,
Thanks for the reply and pic of the spare wheel carrier, it's not the one I was looking for as I tow a camper trailer. I remember that someone was cutting into the rise below the tail lights and had the swivel mounted in that rise. A bit of the side of the rise was cut out so that the arm would pivot. Food for thought though, options.
Cheers

[Graeme]

My design initially allowed it to be fitted with my van attached which required the wheel to be mounted quite high to clear the van's coupling, draw-bar and handbrake lever. However the arm flexed excessively so was cut down to reduce its height and remove a step which meant that it couldn't be used with the van.
Mounting the hinge in the bumper makes the carrier more useful but I wasn't prepared to cut into the bumper especially as the carrier would rarely be used thereby leaving the bumper quite disfigured 99.9% of the time.

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Thanks Graeme, I know where your coming from. I'm looking at leaving mine on most of the time and around a 4" cut in the riser under the rear lights isn't too bad for me.
Thanks again for input and help.
Cheers

[irubix]

keen for some piccies/specs if anyone does this, would be a good to hand off a design to a fab guy for us non weldy types.

[Graeme]

Rear Tire Swing (https://www.aulro.com/afvb/l322-range-rover/205476-rear-tire-swing.html)

[RSW Vogue 2004]

I have a couple of ideas that I have been toying with but still keeping the rear bumper bar on the car. I'll keep drawings and measurements so someone else can copy for themselves.
Cheers

[RSW Vogue 2004]

G'day Graeme,
I have a couple of questions about your spare wheel carrier. What size tyre do you have on it,30", 31", 32".......
How tall is the wheel carrier from the bottom of the swing arm to the top of the bracket where the wheel bolts on and what size steel did you use to make it?
Cheers

[Graeme]

My tyres are 32". The riser is 450mm from the bottom of the arm to the clamp bolt in the centre of the sliding horizontal shaft to which the flange for the 3 wheel bolts is attached. The sliding shaft is to ensure that different rim and tyre combinations are clamped firmly against the lower part of the riser. The arm is 75mm x 38mm RHS of 1.5mm (IIRC) thickness but it is too light because it flexes, allowing the wheel to rock fore and aft although only just a little. Due to the flex I fitted 2 clamps, one on the support bar and the other a little up the riser to lock it against a stump. I would use 3mm if making another. The sliding shaft is 40 x 40 x 3 mm, noting that the bottom of the tyre rests against the lower riser.

I have a foot bracket to facilitate locating the wheel on the stud holes.

I used a wheel bearing mount for the pivot which IIRC my son purchased from rijidij for a D4 RWC which I didn't then make after having obtained one at a VG price.

I was very impressed at the strength of the suitably pressed U channel of the D4 Dolium RWC whereby the lower bar of the swing arm had its bend in a different spot to the higher-up angled brace thereby preventing flex without much overall weight.

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G'day Graeme,
Thanks very much for the information and the link to the other build. Designs are swimming around and plans formulating. I'll keep in touch with more questions I'm sure. First one what is IIRC?
Cheers

[Graeme]

if I remember correctly, which far too often I don't!

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Thanks