Has anyone actually retrofitted the later style spare tire carrier to an OBS truck? For that matter, I'd be interested in any alternate carriers that have been fitted that are a bit more "sophisticated".

Much more interested in actual installs rather than speculative "I bet this would work" discussions. I'm sure most anything could be made to work, after all.

 

Do you have a rear fuel tank? Do you care how far the spare tire hangs down?

The tires is going to have to hang down at least 2-4" to fit a crossmember and the winch accessibility

 

I only have a rear tank. Not sure how I feel about needing to drop the spare tire an additional 2-4". 2" I could maybe live with; 4" not so much.

 

You have to factor in a crossmember strong enough to not only hold the spare but also take hard bumps.

Then you also need to leave enough room to access the winch to crank the tire down.

The newer trucks that come with winches from the factory don't have to worry about this as they have no rear tank so it can go up in the frame rails

 

Makes sense. So it would seem the (semi) reasonable approach might be to go with the side-mount tank as the sole tank. Perhaps I'd consider that if I already had a dual-tank setup and it was just a matter of deleting the rear tank.

With a rear tank only, I'll just stick with that and make sure I re-fresh the anti-seize on the spare tire hardware and give the wheel a bit of a rotation to change the contact points on the tire.

 

I wouldn't go to that extreme. only having 19 gallons of fuel in these trucks would Suck.

I am going to make a winch mountain mount my spare that way. I just need to put in in the project line