I have a 60 f100 Stepside that is missing the bracket for the spare tire. I found one off a 3/4 ton and was hoping to modify to fit but it sits way to low. Can anybody post a picture if the 1/2 mount without the spare mounted so I can see how it all should be?

Thanks Much Kevin

 

Here is a couple pictures of the tire rack from my 56 pickup, hope this is what you're looking for, if you need any more info just give a shout.

 

I'm not sure what mine was off of.

There's a number of different types - some bolt to the bed side only, some have a pedistal like mine. I'm not sure if it will help, but here's a few pics:

 

What happened to your pictures?

 

Which pictures are you talking about, the ones I posted are there and I see Julie's too. Where are yours?

 

Hey 56! I can't see yours either! Just 2 box-x's.

The site has been VERY weird lately! I wonder if IB Adrian is out of rehab and back on the job of improving our software! LOL!

Let me see if this is them and if this works:





This is the bed side type I was refering to above. Mine is the pedistal type.

 

Thats what I'm looking for thanks!

 

Great !

Hey Kevin....Welcome to FTE btw!

 

D6TZ1433A (replaced B7C1433A) .. Spare Wheel Carrier-Mounts to left bedside / Obsolete

Fits: 1957/79 F100 & 1975/79 F150 Flareside Pickups (a stepside is [gasp!] a Chevrolet).

GREEN SALES CO. in Cincinnati OH has TWO = 800-543-4959.

btw: Ford never offered a Flareside right side spare tire carrier, or a right rear fender with a cutout for the spare tire.

The type pictured in post #11 is someone's fabrication.

 

Well that is weird because they are in your reply Julie. Can't figure this out but if you go to my gallery intitled miscelanious they are in there about half way down

 

Just trying this again to see if it makes it here

 

They showed up this time just fine - very odd. I actually cut and pasted the URLs from the pictures in your "MISC" gallery to post them.

The fender on mine on the right side is my own fabrication as well. I'll post another picture of a truck with a right side spare carrier.

That's an interesting note about Ford never putting spare tire carriers on the right side. And frankly I find that a little dumb coming from a group of folks who didn't put door locks on the same side as a safety issue because they didn't want you to get out on the traffic side after you had parked - but man they'll sure have you out there on that side yanking the spare off the truck with the freeway traffic going by at 70 mph ! Sometimes I have to wonder about the thought processes back then!!!!

Safety by not being on the traffic side is EXACTLY why I mounted mine on the right side!

Here's another truck with a right side mount - probably after market. The indents are not hard to fab abd weld in. As a matter of fact I've heard some folks say they just heated and beat the fender to indent it. This particular mount didn't require an indented fender (but it's aslo on an F2+):

 

Notice there is no fender cut-out.

The F350's Flareside Express bed did not require a fender with a cut-out, because there was enough room to mount the carrier to the side of the bed without fender interference.

However, this right side tire mounting bracket is someone's fabrication, or...It's possible an aftermarket company offered this feature.

As far as the left door lock cylinder is concerned, this became standard equipment on Custom Cabs in 1953, and I believe ditto for the 5 star cabs in 1951/52.

 

Know all that about the lock dates as well - it was the reasoning that seemed to change in that two or three years. I guess in 1950 it was unsafe to have somoone on the traffic side of the truck but by 1953 it was ok!

 

At one time, traffic was chaotic...because there were no painted lines between the lanes. People passed one another *****-nilly, even against traffic.

By the 1950's, painted lines had become the norm...to keep people from passing *****-nilly.

When Ike became prez, he fought hard for his Federal Highway Safety Act...based on what he had seen in Germany's autobahns during WWII.

When passed, interstates began being built, and it wasn't long before interstates killed off Route 66 and the Lincoln Highway-the first transcontinental highway-opened 1919, and it was not built by public funds.

The automakers, tire manufacturers, petroleum industry built the Lincoln Highway which stretched from NYC to San Francisco.

Route 66 began on Wacker Drive in Chicago, ended at Santa Monica Blvd & Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica. Someone (not sayin' who) bagged the END ROUTE 66 sign in Santa Monica before the feds removed it.