Custom Tire Carrier, Your Opinion Please
07-31-2009, 07:48 AM
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I have built a bumper like you are drawing on my old CJ8 and it didnt work out for a couple of reasons.
1. the hinge. I tried to make my own with a bolt and some brass washers as a bearing. the carrier came open on a bumpy trail and the 1' bolt bent, and I think it was a grade 8 bolt. get the trailer spindle that guys are using now and that might help.
also you did not go into detail on the 2 hinge idea you had (or I just dont understand) if you were, to say, swing the tire out from the pasenger side and then swing the fuel cans out from the driver side, having split the weight onto two different hinges might help.
2. I know it was a Scrambler and my departure angle sucks any way but that tire out there almost scrapped on my driveway leaving home. the higher you move it the further away from your hinge point you are.
my 2 cents
Burt the Rocket Surgeon
1. the hinge. I tried to make my own with a bolt and some brass washers as a bearing. the carrier came open on a bumpy trail and the 1' bolt bent, and I think it was a grade 8 bolt. get the trailer spindle that guys are using now and that might help.
also you did not go into detail on the 2 hinge idea you had (or I just dont understand) if you were, to say, swing the tire out from the pasenger side and then swing the fuel cans out from the driver side, having split the weight onto two different hinges might help.
2. I know it was a Scrambler and my departure angle sucks any way but that tire out there almost scrapped on my driveway leaving home. the higher you move it the further away from your hinge point you are.
my 2 cents
Burt the Rocket Surgeon
07-31-2009, 10:11 AM
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Naw I scrapped it after doin more research. If you read the discussion board description on the home page you'll see this is the section for custom metal work and welding.
07-31-2009, 10:14 AM
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I have built a bumper like you are drawing on my old CJ8 and it didnt work out for a couple of reasons.
1. the hinge. I tried to make my own with a bolt and some brass washers as a bearing. the carrier came open on a bumpy trail and the 1' bolt bent, and I think it was a grade 8 bolt. get the trailer spindle that guys are using now and that might help.
also you did not go into detail on the 2 hinge idea you had (or I just dont understand) if you were, to say, swing the tire out from the pasenger side and then swing the fuel cans out from the driver side, having split the weight onto two different hinges might help.
2. I know it was a Scrambler and my departure angle sucks any way but that tire out there almost scrapped on my driveway leaving home. the higher you move it the further away from your hinge point you are.
my 2 cents
Burt the Rocket Surgeon
1. the hinge. I tried to make my own with a bolt and some brass washers as a bearing. the carrier came open on a bumpy trail and the 1' bolt bent, and I think it was a grade 8 bolt. get the trailer spindle that guys are using now and that might help.
also you did not go into detail on the 2 hinge idea you had (or I just dont understand) if you were, to say, swing the tire out from the pasenger side and then swing the fuel cans out from the driver side, having split the weight onto two different hinges might help.
2. I know it was a Scrambler and my departure angle sucks any way but that tire out there almost scrapped on my driveway leaving home. the higher you move it the further away from your hinge point you are.
my 2 cents
Burt the Rocket Surgeon
08-10-2009, 03:10 PM
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Once a year? Wow, Ive used mine probably 15-20 times since ive gotten them, anything from extended trips to helping friends who run out of gas on the side of the road. But most of all, the piece of mind know youve got a spare ten gallons on the back, eases the mind and everyone else on the trail run a little bit too
08-14-2009, 05:19 PM
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08-15-2009, 11:58 AM
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I'm workn on a new design but I'm gonna wait tell I can get the google cad thing down so I don't have to post anymore 'napoleon dynamite' style notebook sketches haha.
08-17-2009, 11:18 AM
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Buy what you want but throwing them all in the same bucket based on one pic isn't a good idea. I can find lots of broken pics of just about anything you want but it is not always the products fault. Hell look at all the leaking hard tops on JK's....yet most of us still have them and the majority of them don't leak!!
08-17-2009, 11:38 AM
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Ya I know but still....If I'm going to spend the time an effort I'd want it as strong as possible, but thats my opinion. I talked to orfab a while back and i believe the weight limit was set because of how the carrier mounts to the body and not the carriers ability to handle the weight. After a few years with a heavy tire it might start damaging the body.