Rear Tire Carrier
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Rear Tire Carrier
If anyone can help on this one, it would be greatly appreciated. I understand that the rear tire carriers on Broncos are notorious for rattling and making a general racket. Is there any way to put a stop to this or at least keep it to a minimum?? I have a 32 inch BFG All-Terrain on there, so it is a little heavier than the stock unit and it is about to get set on a heavier aftermarket rim, so SOME rattling is expected, but there has to be some way to keep it to a minimum. Anyone have any answers!?!?!? Thanks for the help!!
#3
Rear Tire Carrier
What year is your truck? If it's the old-style carrier with the square tube catch on top, you can bend the teeth of the bracket on the t/g to hold it tighter and weld in a reenforcement. If it's the later style with the door-type catch, it's adjustable by loosening the screws and moving the catch, but the strike bolt has to have a good plastic cover on it.
#4
Rear Tire Carrier
My old 83 bronco had tape wraped around the bar that catches the latch. I guess the guy who had it before me got tired of the rattling too. It seems to work great, I never heard a thing from it, The electric tape must have acted as a buffer or bushing. Hope this helps.
82 Bronco 302cu Lariat
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82 Bronco 302cu Lariat
83 Bronco 351w (wrecked) parting out, need the money.
Milk sucks!
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#5
Rear Tire Carrier
Here's another thing you might want to try (worked like a charm on my '85): Remove the factory rubber bump stop on the carrier (if yours is the older, mid '80's style). It's a 0.5" X 1.5" black rubber block. Replace it with a bicycle brake shoe. The small threaded stud on the shoe will slip through the hole on the carrier that the rubber block was mounted to, and you can back it with an appropriately sized washer and locknut. The brake shoe bump stop can be shimmed with washers between the shoe and the mounting hole to position it tightly against the tire mount, taking up any slack and free play.
#6
Rear Tire Carrier
Pushing the carrier rearward away from the t/g to hold it tight against the catch may stop the rattling for a while, but every time you hit your brakes or a bump, the weight of the tire pushes that stop into the t/g skin, causing a dimple over time. (The skin isn't reenforced there.)
The proper way is to hold it fully FORWARD against the stop on the top of the t/g so that it doesn't bounce forward or back. This keeps the load on the catch bracket, which has a reenforcing plate inside the t/g to withstand the constant load.
The proper way is to hold it fully FORWARD against the stop on the top of the t/g so that it doesn't bounce forward or back. This keeps the load on the catch bracket, which has a reenforcing plate inside the t/g to withstand the constant load.
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#8
Rear Tire Carrier
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 23-Dec-02 AT 05:02 PM (EST)]Can't honestly say I have ever had a problem with the spare carrier rattling at all. Mine is the same body style and carrier as your 96...92XLT. Only time I ever have a noise problem with the carrier is when the spare itself is flat. found this out on a recent trail run and my brother had to borrow my spare because he found a rock and had no spare with him. (Don't even get me started.) His completely flat 31x10.5 rattled like crazy against the carrier but the carrier itself has never rattled even after replacing the tailgate three months ago.
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#11
Rear Tire Carrier
I did'nt think about the fuel tank and suspension. I was just wondering if anyone but myself had thought of that concept. My spare is inside of my truck so I don't get any rattling at all, but I was trying to think of a way to give me more space without attaching it to the back.
#13
Rear Tire Carrier
There are also aftermarket bumpers that incorporate the carrier mounts and latching into the bumper, itself, rather than the truck body. This might solve the problem, but a lot of trouble and expense if you already have the body-mounted carrier. Study your latch..... you may very well have some adjustment there.