Spare tire in the back seat area

Calvin.8

Calvin.8

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Recently removed my spare tire carrier and plan to just carry my spare in the back whenever I go offroad, and I'm trying to come up with ways to carry the spare and also leave enough room to carry a cooler with me or something. My two initial thoughts were laying the spare flat on the bottom and having a basket or platform of some sort sitting on top I could put things on, or a way to put the spare up higher so I could slide things underneath. Any ideas?
 
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Build or buy a cargo rack that spans from side to side and is high enough to slide your cooler under. That would mean you'd have to pull the cooler out to access it unless you also did a slide out mount, though.
 
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When I had my CJ7, I took a large bolt with a "J" shaped bend on the non threaded end and hooked it around the sport bar. I stood the spare on the fender with the threaded end through a lug hole and spun a large wingnut on it to hold it in place.
 
C.J. Roberts said:
When I had my CJ7, I took a large bolt with a "J" shaped bend on the non threaded end and hooked it around the sport bar. I stood the spare on the fender with the threaded end through a lug hole and spun a large wingnut on it to hold it in place.
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You have any pictures of that. I can not for the life of me imagine what that looks like 😂
 
Calvin.8 said:
You have any pictures of that. I can not for the life of me imagine what that looks like 😂
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Sorry, I got rid of that Jeep in 1986 for a YJ. Picture something like this:

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but longer. You could make one out of a piece of all thread rod. Set the spare tire on the fender, toward the front, so that it's beside the sport bar. Hook the curved end around the sport bar, with the threaded end through a lug hole held on with a large wingnut.
 
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I sold/gave/can't-remember @starkey480 a Bestop Rack last year and he made a nice setup similar to what I was planning on doing...

Stark - you have any pics to share?
 
pc1p said:
I sold/gave/can't-remember @starkey480 a Bestop Rack last year and he made a nice setup similar to what I was planning on doing...

Stark - you have any pics to share?
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I mounted D rings in the tub and used a spare tire tie down from macs. Then just strapped the tray down on top of the tire using the factory footman loops. Simple and easily removable.
 
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starkey480 said:
I mounted D rings in the tub and used a spare tire tie down from macs. Then just strapped the tray down on top of the tire using the factory footman loops. Simple and easily removable.
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I was going to do something like this, but I wanted to get the tray off of the tire with brackets into the rollbar. Ended up getting that good deal on the morryde and stuck the tire back to the rear. Back seat is in but no rear riders yet. I’m still not convinced that I liked it or need it.
I may say screw it, my Jeep is a 2 seater and go back to my original plans
 
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So I used the seatbelt to keep the tire down as a joke. But then I checked how secure it was and it hardly moved at all, and I couldn't lift it no matter how hard I pulled. So I just went with it and then put my cooler on top. I attached two bungies to those random hook things at the very back of the cargo area and attached them to the black rubber things on my cooler that keeps it closed. Then I felt around and found some random holes underneath the front seats as attachment points and then hooked them onto some holes of the corner of the cooler. Definitely not a permanent solution but it should work for the trails tomorrow.
 
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