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Tue Nov 20, 2018 4:00 am

Hi there
I'm wondering if anyone has created a detail drawing for a spare wheel carrier, with regards to the piece of steel located against the rear hatch in which the device hinges from? And the piece inside the duct which this piece bolts to.?
Living here in Australia no one makes anything like this here and freight from US is rather costly. Many $$$$$ !
thanks
Peter

Tue Nov 20, 2018 8:24 pm

Hey Peter
I had a rust bucket van that I cut up for spare body parts to fix rusted out parts of my van. I was careful to save the rear d-pillar corner so I could use it to mock up the reinforcement pieces.

Maybe you could find a donor van in your hood?

Sat Nov 24, 2018 4:58 pm

rmcd wrote: Hey Peter
I had a rust bucket van that I cut up for spare body parts to fix rusted out parts of my van. I was careful to save the rear d-pillar corner so I could use it to mock up the reinforcement pieces.

Maybe you could find a donor van in your hood?

Thanks mate
A good idea
Looking
Peter

Sat Nov 24, 2018 7:15 pm

I adapted a spare tire carrier from a gmc SUV. Mounted it through the outside side panel of the d pillar. As the exterior metal on the vanagon body panels is not that thick, I added decent sized steel reinforcement panels from inside the d pillar and it is all held together with bolts.

I was prepared to do further welded in reinforcements but they weren’t necessary

So propose you consider adapting something from a local market SUV. Eg Nissan Pathfinder/ terrano

Otherwise I have seen some use the body seam vertically beside the back hatch as a base attachment point, wrapping out onto the rear of the d pillar beside the hatch to attach swing arm points for a spare tire rack