Gallowbraid
Adventurist
I thought for sure there would be a Clint Eastwood cameo with that music.
The Grey Mouser: Reboot
- Thread starter Haggis
- Start date
This was our gear load for the trip…
3 Rigid boxes: Camp kitchen, Camp Sundries and a Consumable box.
1 Mountain Alps table
1 Empty Water Jerry can.
2 Day Packs
2 Camp chairs
2 Dry Bags of Clothes (including winter stuff)
1 Tent ladder ( that never got mounted)
Down Jackets and hats and gloves went in the molle bags hanging off the ceiling rack.
Fridge and snack box in the backseat, spare shoes on the floor. Sundry other bits in the backseat scabbard.
3 Rigid boxes: Camp kitchen, Camp Sundries and a Consumable box.
1 Mountain Alps table
1 Empty Water Jerry can.
2 Day Packs
2 Camp chairs
2 Dry Bags of Clothes (including winter stuff)
1 Tent ladder ( that never got mounted)
Down Jackets and hats and gloves went in the molle bags hanging off the ceiling rack.
Fridge and snack box in the backseat, spare shoes on the floor. Sundry other bits in the backseat scabbard.
Thanks! I prefer a useful, understated truck over bolting every thing on you can.
I really dislike mounting and unmounting the Wilco tire carrier. It’s a pain. But even giving the receiver hitch a liberal coating of marine grease before inserting that damn carrier wants to stick in the receiver even if it’s been on for just a couple weeks. Running it during the salt months would make the Wilco a permanent mount. Got to take a different approach.
I really don’t want to put a heavy swing out bumper on, but I also don’t want to have to crawl through a mud hole to get the spare out of the stock location if I bury the truck. What to do, what to do…
I really don’t want to put a heavy swing out bumper on, but I also don’t want to have to crawl through a mud hole to get the spare out of the stock location if I bury the truck. What to do, what to do…
Yeah, I’m trying to avoid that scenario. Probably just going to keep the status quo. I can’t think of an ideal solution that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg or add so much more weight.And so it begins once more…
Maybe consider moving the spare inside. Secure it to the front wall of the bed. Keeps that weight amidships, and the tire protected from UV etc.
This would be much better than cantilevered off the back behind the axle.
You’d actually decrease weight that way by deleting the Wilco and not adding any more steel in the form of a heavier bumper and swing out.
It’s that or the stock location IMO.
This would be much better than cantilevered off the back behind the axle.
You’d actually decrease weight that way by deleting the Wilco and not adding any more steel in the form of a heavier bumper and swing out.
It’s that or the stock location IMO.
Having the swing out puts a ton of weight at the rearmost point and prevents leaving the tailgate down to transport long items that won't fit in the bed.
My spare tire would rub on the back of the differential housing (just slightly) as the suspension cycled so I wouldn't want to put it back underneath unless I went down a tire size from 255-85R16. The swing out also makes a nice table mount and holds my water can in a convenient place for using the pump.
Damned if you do etc...
My spare tire would rub on the back of the differential housing (just slightly) as the suspension cycled so I wouldn't want to put it back underneath unless I went down a tire size from 255-85R16. The swing out also makes a nice table mount and holds my water can in a convenient place for using the pump.
Damned if you do etc...
Mount it toward the back and get a tire cover. You can roll out/in a muddy tire w/o having to unpack everything in the bed. The tire cover will help prevent dragging the dirt into your sleeping bags.
https://spiritof1876.com/collection...-truck-bed-spare-mount?variant=39609626853551
Don't forget - if the tire is inside, and you get a flat at midnight, in the rain, on a muddy trail, you have to empty the contents of the bed into the mud.
And, you get to put the flat, muddy tire inside your at one time clean truck.
Just trying to help.....
Sshhhh…. We almost had this in the bag!
Great point.
WashingtonTaco
Adventurist
Ditch the other back seat and mount it opposite of the fridge, balanced load side to side, front to back. If you have a dirty damaged tire slip contractor 55 gallon trash bag over it.
Gallowbraid
Adventurist
Can't get anymore overlandy (is that a word? it is now) than a spare tire on the hood.
