I'm trying to come up with a way to hold my tire carrier open, and wandered what everyone else was doing. currently I'm just using a bungie strap from the carrier to the passanger side rear wheel to keep it open. the bungie works, but I'd like to come up with something a little better.
thanks,
muddy
Could you use a Pin that is spring loaded that will call into a hole when the carrier is opened? I haven't built one just trying to think of an option for you. So when you want to close it you just pull up on the pin and in it goes.
You could get creative with those shock deals for the rear hatch of an XJ that would hold it open and be able to leave it on and just shut it in. It's what I have been thinking about for mine.
I've never even thought about keeping it open. When I open it, it seems that I end up closing if right after I get out or place in whatever it is that I'm haveing to open it for.
I've never had a problem with it closing on me either, it's behing the swing out tailgare and it gets held open with the slider hinge.....
well, it seems like whenever I go wheeling, I'm the only one that brings tools, so I spend a lot of time with the back of my jeep open, getting tools out to fix everyone elses rigs. and it seems like every time, I'm on just enough of an incline that the tire wants to swing closed.
I kinda like the gas strut idea, but I wander how well something like that would hold up to being in the elements all the time, not to mention all the salt on the roads here in the winter?
Do you have an aftermarket style carrier, or are you using the stock carrier on the tailgate?
If it is an aftermarket carrier, I have seen people weld a spring pin (ebay link here) to their carrier hinge, and weld a round plate bellow the hinge with a couple holes in it, for the pin to slide into. Hope that makes sense, I have seen a picture, but I cannot find it now.
well, sense I had a couple of those struts lieing around, I decided to use them for the tire swing.
here's a couple pics of how it turned out.
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