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#11 pvstoy

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Posted 17 November 2013 - 04:29 AM

If you wanted to add even more metal and hold at the center hub.  Come up at the ends with tubes (gussets at bottom) and have a adjustable arm to hold the center hub.  Now if it would be for that rim and tire size.

 

How this for a Snipping tool art work? :P

 

 

I think your solution might work just fine. 

 

 

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Posted 09 July 2014 - 06:26 AM

Love it.Great work
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Posted 13 July 2014 - 11:48 PM

Thanks!

 

I think that I've fixed the tendency of the tire to lean with a pair of carriage bolts the bear their heads (polished) against the tire tread at about horizontal from center near the two edges of the tread. The tire should want to center itself between them as that will be the "lowest" spot. Trekking up to Bodie will be it's first test.


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Posted 04 September 2014 - 01:09 AM

Just thought that I'd update this. My fix appears to be working rather well. It's a variation of what a friend suggested. The two stainless carriage bolts are slightly buried in the tread. They are spaced to be near the outer edges of the tread so that as the tire shifts back and forth it was to go 'uphill' against one of the bolt heads.

 

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Posted 14 December 2018 - 10:27 PM

What happens to the tire stability and the stabilizing carriage bolts when the tires naturally losses air pressure and deflates over time?


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Posted 14 December 2018 - 10:43 PM

It isn't allowed to deflate over time, part of the reason for having out from under the truck is so that the pressure can be checked periodically and maintained. Should there be a flat tire put on the carrier then it will wobble a bit as the spare did prior to the addition of the stabilizer. It can't wobble enough to get away, I just didn't like it moving that much. If a flat tire were to be put on it I suspect that with the ratchet strap puled down tight like it should be that it would be more stable than an inflated spare would be w/o the stabilizer.


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#17 JHanson

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Posted 15 December 2018 - 03:06 AM

That is a brilliant design and execution.


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Posted 15 December 2018 - 03:16 AM

Thank you.

 

And now it all has to come off the truck because the new to us camper is longer and it no longer fits as originally built. Debating some mods to the camper that will allow a rear bumper of significance to be built. If that happens the core of this carrier will be included.


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Posted 15 December 2018 - 04:26 AM

One of the ideas I have kicked around for a swing away tire carrier is to attach a receiver on right outside frame rail.  That gets rid of all the dead weight of a center attachment point and still make it removable.

 

I like your idea of a drop down carrier with help lifting the tire & carrier.  I'm getting too old to lift this stuff anymore.


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Posted 15 December 2018 - 03:07 PM

One of my biggest concerns about traveling alone in remote places is how the heck to change a monster tire....


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