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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 4 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 4 | I want to put the spare under the bed and have been trying to find an after-market system of cabling the tire up under the bed using a winch like system that I've see in Chyrsler vans etc. I thought I could turn the bolt from the inside floor of the bed to raise and lower it. Know of any solution to this problem?
David | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 | Get a cable winch spare tire mounting assembly that was used on Nissan pickups for years. It uses the screw jack handle to operate the winch from underneath the bed. You could even fabricate a shaft with u-joints and hide the drive inside a fenderwell, if you didn't want a hole through the splash pan at the rear of the bed. There should be thousands of them in salvage yards.
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| | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | I keep my behind the cab and held up with a cargo bar,,sort of out the way but easy to get in and out if need be,,,
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 2,074 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 2,074 | My 98 S-10 pickup also has a neat, cable winch set up. Though it would also be just the ticket for my flatbed. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 1,745 Member | | Member Joined: Dec 2001 Posts: 1,745 | The sidemount looks so cool. I aint crawling under that truck to get the spare out, no way. [img] http://www.angelswest.com/_borders/treetruck500.jpg[/img]
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62 flatbed dump C60 with 261
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 230 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 230 | David , go to your local Pick-A-Part junkyard and look under the bed of the older Datsun 620 & 720 pickups , they all have a ratcheting winch dead that woks with a chain , rather than some crummy cabvle that's sure to rust & break unless you live in California .
F**d ' Couriers ' used the same getup and it's super simple to adapt to any truck with only four holes drilled . you'll love it , no need to crawl 'round in the muck when you need the spare tire .
You'll need the jack handle or make up a simple one to suit tho' , the Courries one is theft proof as it won't release untill it's depressed in the center .
I hope this helps....
-Nate
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| | | | | Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 523 Member | | Member Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 523 | My spare fits neatly into my wallet
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