Thread: L322, 2004, spare tyre carrier.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Rear Tire Swing

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

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