Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 18:03:29 -0700
Reply-To: Alistair Bel <albell@SHAW.CA>
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From: Alistair Bel <albell@SHAW.CA>
Subject: Re: Another tire carrier prototype
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The whole exercise started when I decided to put a big battery up first where the spare tire goes. I tried a swing away mount on my rear bumper ( home made aluminum bumper) but I wasn't happy about the vibrations in that set up. As an aside, soon after cutting up that mount I happened to see a go Westy swing away mount on a go Westy bumper. The amount of movement in that set up was much more than I had on mine. I was surprised by the vans owner saying he didn't find it a problem. It would bug me immensely.
So I had the choice of making a copy of the stock vw swing away, much like what Gary Lee sells, or doing a hatch mounted unit. I decided on the latter. Both have their pros and cons. There are definite cons about the hatch mount. You need much stronger hatch struts.
So I made one. Very quickly and not really a polished example. But it worked and still works fine. My friend Simon had his over sized spare badly awkwardly mounted up front, then he mounted his tire to his paulchen rack. He bought very strong hatch struts and it worked well for him. But it was a lot of carrier just for a tire, so I made another hatch mount for him.
Then I made another for Nathan, who works for dr. Bjorn, the new owner of the skylight guys business.
On that one I lowered the tire position on the rack and I moved it to he left a little. Just to reduce the amount of rear view blockage.
I don't like the offset, but Nathan does.
Now I'm making three more units. Still prototyping.
Alistair
> On Apr 21, 2016, at 2:08 PM, Mark Milby <obxmilby@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> Could someone please explain to me why you would want to move the tire? It
> is in the way of your hatch, it blocks your view, only looks good on a Baja
> style syncro?
>
>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Neil2 <vidublu@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm much closer, send it to me and I'll beta test it for the rest of it's
>> life.
>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Ned Savoie <ned@harbourlight.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yeah, that does look bad, send it to me.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ned
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>>>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 2:30 AM, Alistair Bel <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This is the third one I've made and I'm still fooling around with the
>>>> design. Decided to try an offset position of the wheel on the carrier,
>>> I'm
>>>> not sure it's a success, doesn't look right to me.
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, pics of it on a van here
>> https://shufti.wordpress.com/2016/04/10/vanagon-another-laddertire-carrier-prototype/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Alistair
>>
>>
>>
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>> Neil2
>> '82 Diesel Westfalia (Ducky)
>> '86 Vanagon/Westfalia Wannabe (SaVannah)
>> '08 170" 2500 Mega Roof Dodge Sprinter (Moby)
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