Spare tire carrier?

[Rome11six]

Hey guys so I have tried searching but no luck so figured I'd finally make a post.

I'm trying to find out about putting a spare tire carrier on my pathy that didn't come with one. I didn't known if they all came with one or if some had the spare tire in the cab or what but I really like the look of the spare being on the back and I want the room in the trunk/ cab. 

I've seen my pathy doesn't have the bolt holes for it and didn't know if it would need to be reinforced or if they all came reinforced there or not. Any body got experience putting one on that didn't have the bolt hole already there?

[Slartibartfast]

The trucks that came with carriers have reinforcement/nut plates inside the fender. I don't think the non-carrier trucks generally have the brackets, but I don't know for sure that yours doesn't. Stick your hand up in there and see.

 

It is possible to retrofit a carrier to a non-carrier truck. It has been done. The tricky bit is those reinforcement brackets. I pulled the brackets out of my parts car for @vzcraig70 a couple years ago, and found out why ninetyfivehatch cut his down to fit. They were clearly installed before the quarter panel went on, which is why it takes a little butchery to put them in after the fact.

 

Hawairish used rivnuts to mount the carrier on his R50. Seemed to work alright for him, but after seeing NissanBoston's pictures on the last page of that thread, I don't think I would trust rivnuts alone.

[FirstGenFreak]

Wow, that is ballsy trusting rivnuts 

[hawairish]

Mine’s been fine, but yeah, don’t trust them alone. My carrier will be replaced eventually. 

[FirstGenFreak]

26 minutes ago, hawairish said:

Mine’s been fine, but yeah, don’t trust them alone. My carrier will be replaced eventually. 

To be fair I have a full jerry can hanging off mine as well