what's up guys welcome back to uh part two of the tire carrier build uh this is gonna be a three
part series so if you missed part one i'll leave a link somewhere up here but anyways in this part
two what we're going to talk about is the auxiliary hitch the swing arms the latch
and the hinge also if you guys are interested in building your own i've actually created a
build plan for this you can print out the plans and pretty much follow this step by step
they'll list out everything key measurements um and all the parts used in the build and for more
information on that i'll actually leave a link in the description to access that with that out
of the way uh let's jump into part two of the build since the hitch tire carrier would take
up the factory hitch i still wanted the option to have a auxiliary hitch so if i wanted to run
two things at once like a bike rack and this tire carrier i can still do that to keep a low profile
i trimmed this weld on hitch receiver and welded it to the anti-wobble to get the swing arms to
the desired height i cut out this 45 degree tube and notched it to fit the auxiliary hitch
then use a hole saw to knock out a spot for where the hinge would weld up to the swing arm
before i could weld in the hinge tube i bored out the inner diamer
as the sleeve bushing was a hair slightly too large it was about about 15 thou over
when i designed the hinge i used 3 8 wall dom a one inch heavy duty bolt
and self sleeve bushings that were replaceable if they ever got worn out
this should help make it heavy duty for my application because i purposely made
the swing arm slightly longer than what was specked out in the drawing i trimmed it to
size doing it this way with the hinge assembly mounted would give me an accurate total length
then pictured and lined everything up i used some scrap half inch thick plate to space out the arms
and added some quarter inch shims in between the hinge tabs
now was to move on to the upper section of the tire carrier build
i used some angle to create the platform for the upper two mount that would hold the wheel
then made a receiver tube for the wheel plate
for my 4runner my wheel bolt pattern is 6 by 139.7 mil with a threaded type of
m12 by 1.5 you can also google this for your vehicle application
to add some diagonal supports i bent some round tubing you can also use square tubing
but i prefer the round tube as it matched the rest of the components on my formatter
next let's talk about the latch i use one rated at 1900
holding capacity this latch clamps from the side so i had to cap off the swing arms to make it work
make sure the squeeze was just right i placed some rubber stops
and then made some adjustments on the lash
after welding most of everything in it was time to give this thing a test fit
so far so good i think
all right it's getting pretty late here with this video edit so i'm gonna end it here
uh in part three and the final build of this tire carrier build series what we're going to talk
about is the wiring the wiring for the license plate and possibly the rear backup camera and i
also want to talk about some of the minor tweaks that i made to make everything flow together
so stay tuned for that one also if you guys have any questions leading up to this point of the
build series uh make sure to leave me a comment in the comment section um and i'll do my best
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see part three of the build series that's it for me today i'll see you guys in the next one later