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Factory Tire Carrier

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1978Blazerk5

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What can you guys tell me about the tire carriers the bolt to the body on blazers? mine origanaly came with one.i would really like to find one and put it on there,but i am kinda worried about it denting up the body(i heard that with big tires they do.) i am running a 33 12.50 with a steel wheel weighs about 65, 70 lbs

by the way here is my truck

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They were actually a dealer accessory, if you're talking about the ones that mounted to the back corner of the body and the tailgate.

They rip the tailgate sheetmetal up with big tires. Ask me how I know.

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That one actually isn't bad -- that's the Hickey Cadillac, IIRC (unless you made yours, but same idea ;) ) Because it bolts to both corners it's not so prone to the vertical movements that tear the tailgate up.

This is the style I had on my K5, much to the chagrin of my tailgate sheetmetal:

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Note I now have it on my pickup ... but rather than screwing into the sheetmetal, I welded a stud *through* the tailgate. (Not having window glass in there I can do that =))

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I still think for any long period of usage, the bumper mounted option would be best, short of triangulating to the body more structurally than to the surface. On my K5 I replace the tailgate with ~1.5"s square tube. Obviously for those of you with a top and such it's not so practical, but this is how you'd know it won't fall off =))

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I've got one or two of these tailgate mounted tire carriers I was going to put on my truck, after reinforcing the heck out of the sheetmetal.

Question is though, what killed your sheetmetal? Is it the body flex since the mount swings on the body, but latches to the tailgate, or is it simply because the mounting points aren't solid enough? I never really thought about the body flex issue with one of these before, but it can't help the situation...
 
If that's the case, then fixing/improving the mounting points would cure the problem.

Obviously a 30"+ tire is heavy, and the truck bouncing around is going to be the problem, but if the mounting is solid, the tire can't move, thus no problem. If body flex is part of the equation however (can't be a solid mount because something has to give?) then improved mounts won't be a viable solution.
 
well i supose there is a reason people do a bumper mount vrs the body mount its alot simpler.

there was a person one here IIRC who modifyed the stock bumper and built a carrier off of that.
 
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