In-bed spare tire mounting

Hey all,
I am looking for a way to mount my full-size 33" spare in my truck bed. I have seen the mounts that take up half the truck bed, but I am looking to mount more vertically than at an angle or horizontally. Figured there's enough brains here that others have thought of or done the same thing.

 

There is one that mounts to the bed rail, but I have seen bedsides crack from the stress

 

Like this?

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/spare-tire-mount.578590/

 

well hot damn!

 

The one I have in my 85 Mini holds a 35 and has seen a lot of off road use with no issues. It is simply a large flat plate bolted to the top of the wheel well with an L shape piece of 2" receiver set up to hold the tire. The tire actually sits on the bed of the truck so all you are actually supporting is the side to side stuff. Hi-lift jack is mounted behind the tire. Don't have a good pic of it and the shell is on now so I can't really take one. But if you have a welder it be an idea.

 

Do you have any photos?

 

Not

Nit one that shows the mount, though what we did was basically mount a receiver tube on a plate that is bolted through the fender top to a plate underneath. We then built an L shaped piece to fit the receiver and added a plate with studs for the wheel. Tap in a couple of locking screws for height adjustment (or pin it for a single height) and you are good to go. Hi Lift is mounted on the backside of the tire. I'll try to up load a pic or two.

 

This is the best I could do with my phone, but should give you a good idea of what we did. A bit of overkill, but it has been there for a bunch of years....Rubicon, Baja etc with no issues to the mount or the bed. There is a full sized plate under the wheel well also for strength.

 

This works when your bed is actually made of metal lol

 

It will work with composites as well. Use large nutsert or a nut and bolt. Just widen the mounts on the bed so it distributes the stress.

 

I'm not holding down my 90lb spare with a couple of bolts through a plastic wheel well.

 

My 35” spare is held down with d rings bolted to the bed. Zero problems.

 

Mine just lays flat in the bed. Zero problems too.

 

Mine too. I’d like to move it up against the front bed rail though for space

 

You aren't actually holding the weight of the spare as it sits on the bed floor. All you need to deal with is side loads. If you ever looked at the metal that makes up a mini wheel well, you wouldn't want to hold a 90lb weight from that either. Thus the plates, spread the load from side movement and the actual bed floor supports the weight. Lots of high speed baja stuff and low speed Rubicon stuff and zero issues.

 

Your whole "Plastic Bed" is held down by a few bolts. Whatever you tie down to the bed rails is held by that "plastic bed". Seen lots of Bikes and Quads "tied down" to that plastic bed with no issues. If you engineer it right it will do just fine.

 

It's composite, like fiberglass... It's actually very strong. And as stated above, it's bolted to the frame and we (some people) still put a thousand pounds of cargo in the bed. I wouldn't sweat it.

 

I know OP wants if verticle, but like others have said the easiest is to lay it flat in the bed. You can even put more D rings in the bed in the frame bolts in addition to the two stock near the tailgate.

 

What strap is that?

 

Is that white truck yours?