Spare wheel gone! Looking mean!

[rustic]

If you have a wheel to go on the roof, how are you going to lift it up there?
You will need a ladder of some sort. Then you will have to slide it up somehow, maybe on your own. Also get it down, in the pouring rain in the dark ... that's when punctures happen....:doh

Hey, you could use your winch... over the roof and haul it up and over...

With the extra weight high up, and your higher stance, you are making it easier to roll it.

Now, best place for wheel is either lashed down securely in the boot, or on the back door. I hope you haven't binned the door bracket.

You will also affect the aerodynamics of the truck :lol:lol
I don't think you need worry about that lol...:augie

So where are you going to mount your waffle boards and high lift jack?
Maybe, a safari roof rack, with a tent option, then you can camp up there.
Fridge next, and then some hot air heating, some curtains...

 

[firebobby]

Hehe all comments taken on board, apart from the nissan cube one :augie

My main reason for removing the spare wheel was the following, when I purchased the set of wheels 4 were mud trackers and spare was an avon ranger, now I've moved up the wheel size is so far off it's not worth keeping on.

I do actually plan to get a roof rack and spare wheel there (that's the plan anyway) but I have heard the roof is a bit fragile :nenau

Funny how everyone has different views, it's got some good looks since the new shoes and removal of spare, and I quote "f*** that's a sick truck" from a loonie walking past at work :lol

Also had a cyclist take a second and third look back at it as he undertook in traffic, oh and had kids snapping pics of it and again they said "that's wicked, it's like a mini monster truck" :lol

Naturally I was included to agree :augie

So getting back to the subject, can a roof rack and spare be secured on the roof without too much stress? And regarding wheels poking out I plan to do arch extension.

Hehe all comments taken on board, apart from the nissan cube one :augie
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He wasn't a loony, he was right and he probably said "sick F>ck" :lol

Cyclist was hoping he never runs into that thing on the front and has told his mates to be on the look out for it :augie

and kids are very easy to please :augie

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder :thumb2

 

[bud]

I have found that my back door doesn't really even close properly anymore due to having big arsed M/T's hanging off it over the last few years...so naturally i have given up the battle of trying to stop the water getting in by removing anything inside on the floor that can actually absorb water... the plan for my truck is to do a double cab conversion/ chop the back of it. we'll see as time progresses

 

[Barrbeast]

Alex mate, until you get this roof rack what are you gonna do if you get a puncture or trash a tyre offroad?

I don't understand the reasoning behind getting rid of your spare? When most of us go up a tyre size (eg. me or Elty) we just fit a bigger spare, not get rid of it altogether!

For the record I don't really have any views about taking it off the back door (do what you want, its your truck) but, as usual, you seem to have fired ahead without actually thinking things through :doh

Also the removal of the spare will have nothing to do with the comments you've had from joe public - they're talking about your other mods!

 

[AlexD333]

Hehe cheers chaps, I like it anyway :lol

I pay good money for full recovery service, they know the truck is modded so they just send the low loader, I've also got connections through work.

The spare was so much smaller it wasn't worth keeping on.

The door closes like a dream now too!! None of that judder bounce crap, it sounds like the passenger doors now :lol

The lanes I'm on are only very short, reachable is probably the word I'm looking for. As for a puncture id use my recovery. :thumb2

I still have all the bits at work, but I don't think it's going back on.

Apart from anything else I'd need a bigger body lift to fit another spare the same size on the boot :thumb2

 

[Barrbeast]

I pay good money for full recovery service, they know the truck is modded so they just send the low loader, I've also got connections through work.

...The lanes I'm on are only very short, reachable is probably the word I'm looking for. As for a puncture id use my recovery.

That is the one of the daftest comments you've come out with yet bud - I pay extra for full recovery too, but I don't expect to have to phone if I come out to find a flat tyre on the truck. :doh

I don't get it, you do all these mods to make her better offroad but then decide to just rely on a recovery truck being able to make it up a lane to you if you have a puncture. Basically you're going to be relying on whoever you're with to help get you back to the road and the recovery truck - if it was me, knowing the background, I'd be tempted to leave you

Also, if you're on a laning weekend you're pretty much going to miss a lot of it while you sort out a new tyre!

The spare was so much smaller it wasn't worth keeping on.

That's why you buy a bigger tyre for the spare - just get a cheapy, as long as it's still the same size.

Apart from anything else I'd need a bigger body lift to fit another spare the same size on the boot :thumb2

Elty hasn't had any trouble fitting a 33" spare on his truck

 

[AlexD333]

What I'm saying is the old spare only just fitted on coz of my bumpers, an even bigger one is going to hit the bumper meaning I cant open my boot door unless I do further body lift.

Before the body lift atall the tyre would catch the bumper bad even flat...

I need to find a new home for it.

 

[Sweety]

I need to find a new home for it.

Fit a swing away wheel carrier to the rear bumper:thumbs hell fit 2 then you could carry 2 spares like expedition trucks have & be the first to do it on a T2:naughty

 

[Barrbeast]

Like Sweety says (since you have a steel rear bumper it makes it easier to fit a swing away) or fit a spare wheel bracket spacer and/or extension.

Lazyferret fitted one to move his spare higher up the door - he posted pics

Like I said, take your bracket off if you want, but you ideally want to have sorted the alternative place for your spare wheel before you removed the bracket...

 

[Sweety]

Something you've forgotten about Alex where are you going to rest your coffee mug now the spare wheel has gone:lol:lol:lol

 

[Barrbeast]

Something you've forgotten about Alex where are you going to rest your coffee mug now the spare wheel has gone:lol:lol:lol

Gah, I totally forgot the most important reason for keeping the spare! :doh

 

[Sweety]

Gah, I totally forgot the most important reason for keeping the spare! :doh

I know mine often gets use as a cup holder/rest:augie
I'm sure you could get something like this fabricated up to fit onto your bumper Alex

 

[Thomas-the-Terrano2]

nissan xterria ? in picture. the US version of d22 pickup

 

[AlexD333]

Ok, now you guys are speaking my language :sly

The next silly question i must ask is how will the bracket be moveable for Cygnus bumper? Need solid welding to bumper and a bearing above or similar? Hinge? :nenau

Cheers chaps :clap

 

[Barrbeast]

Ok, now you guys are speaking my language :sly

The next silly question i must ask is how will the bracket be moveable for Cygnus bumper? Need solid welding to bumper and a bearing above or similar? Hinge? :nenau

Cheers chaps :clap

Hinge... big beefy hinge :thumbs

 

[Lazy-Ferret]

Like Sweety says (since you have a steel rear bumper it makes it easier to fit a swing away) or fit a spare wheel bracket spacer and/or extension.

Lazyferret fitted one to move his spare higher up the door - he posted pics

Like I said, take your bracket off if you want, but you ideally want to have sorted the alternative place for your spare wheel before you removed the bracket...

I have a Swing away on the T1... I looked into one on the T2, but not sure you could fit one to the T2 in the same way, as the rear corners are considerably beefed up for the mountings on the T1, and as said, the mounting brackets for the swing away are very beefy blocks of steel, the top one alone weighed in at about 3Kgs. Then once closed, it actually sits on 2 mountings on the rear bumper, so the hinges are not taking the weight once on the road. So to fit one, would require a fair bit of fabrication work.

Because of this, on my T2, I just lifted the rear bracket, which to be honest is a piece of cake. To do what Alex wants would require nothing more than some box section, 4 longer fine thread bolts to fix the box section in place of the carrier, and then 4 nuts and bolts to fit the carrier further up the box section.

 

[Fez_uk]

Your recovery wont recover you from a greenlane only on tarmac.

Even if you're spare is smaller its still usefull to get you off that lane! How else will you get off the lane without ruining your rim and tyre?!

 

[Banshee]

Your recovery wont recover you from a greenlane only on tarmac.

Even if you're spare is smaller its still usefull to get you off that lane! How else will you get off the lane without ruining your rim and tyre?!

I have off road recovery with Adrian Flux :sly

 

[Blocky10]

I'd have an el cheapo tyre, the same size, fitted to the existing spare and keep it in the boot. Probably a good idea to bolt the carrier to the floor so the wheel doesn't fly around when your truck is rolling down a hill. I'd then build storage around it and cover it all over. Similar to what I've seen some guys on here do in their work trucks.
OR modify the rear bumper (?) so a full size spare still fits on the door.
One other thing, I'd have them rear wheel spacers off.
Other than that I think it's pukka. [emoji106]

 

[AlexD333]

I'd have an el cheapo tyre, the same size, fitted to the existing spare and keep it in the boot. Probably a good idea to bolt the carrier to the floor so the wheel doesn't fly around when your truck is rolling down a hill. I'd then build storage around it and cover it all over. Similar to what I've seen some guys on here do in their work trucks.
OR modify the rear bumper (?) so a full size spare still fits on the door.
One other thing, I'd have them rear wheel spacers off.
Other than that I think it's pukka. [emoji106]

The bar of my bumper would need to be cut into, not something I plan to do as it would weaken it, a further body lift is possible, or perhaps a roof rack as mentioned, I'll prob end up with a shogun ladder too :lol