Nothing new here really, just bringing this up to date with the swing outs.
As I have a 166l aux tank there's no need for fuel cans so I put a box on the 2nd arm for recovery gear instead, keeps it always accessible and not cluttering up the back of the truck.
The arms overlap. The tyre swing out has a spring loaded pin to hold it closed. The box arm overlaps and has an over centre clamp that pulls it down onto the tyre arm and then down onto a block of plastic on the bumper. There is an eyelet to hook a padlock through when required and that holds both closed.
Using over centre clamps on both arms would have been a pain for access as would spring pins on both. Having the single one means access is ok and once the box arm is open access to the spring pin on the wheel arm is easy.
The pivots are pretty substantial things, OD is 76mm, shafts are 44mm, no fear of them breaking
As I have a 166l aux tank there's no need for fuel cans so I put a box on the 2nd arm for recovery gear instead, keeps it always accessible and not cluttering up the back of the truck.
The arms overlap. The tyre swing out has a spring loaded pin to hold it closed. The box arm overlaps and has an over centre clamp that pulls it down onto the tyre arm and then down onto a block of plastic on the bumper. There is an eyelet to hook a padlock through when required and that holds both closed.
Using over centre clamps on both arms would have been a pain for access as would spring pins on both. Having the single one means access is ok and once the box arm is open access to the spring pin on the wheel arm is easy.
The pivots are pretty substantial things, OD is 76mm, shafts are 44mm, no fear of them breaking
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Very high quality fabrication, I like the swing out tube to support the additional work surface and the tidy high lift mount. The overlapping arms is an interesting design, I don't recall seeing that before, nice idea.
