Spare Tire Carrier Repair Question
#1
06-05-2011, 08:02 PM
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Location: Colorado, Front range
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Spare Tire Carrier Repair Question
Hey guys I have a 93 Jimmmy with a spare tire carrier, the lower bracket has one screw missing and the one screw loose. How do you get to the nuts on the back? I have no idea how to get to them without cutting a hole somewhere.
#3
06-06-2011, 12:07 AM
Take out your taillight and see if you can reach the backs of them that way. You may need to pull the interiour panel back to get at them, I cant remember. What you could do is weld a nut where the old one has fallen off on the inside of the body, and use a bolt where the old screw went on the carrier.
#4
06-06-2011, 12:15 PM
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Yeah I've tried removing gthe taillight and the inside plastic panel. No luck there. I even looked under the truck, no access hole there either. The factory welded nuts must have come loose, because the one torx bolt just spins, but won't tighten. the other torx screw is missing and looking into the hole, there are no visible threads of the welded nut. Anyone have some experience with this?
#5
08-27-2011, 09:13 PM
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No one else have this problem? How about you guys and gals that have installed a spare tire carrier on a truck that didn't have one originally? How have you secured it to the truck? There, that's three questions. Surely one of these questions can get answered. Help me 
Last edited by maddie's dad; 08-27-2011 at 09:16 PM.
#6
08-28-2011, 03:19 PM
may have to take the taillight out and take a air cutter-if this is not a show blazer and strategically cut a flap to get behind there and hold a nut on the backside with an open end wrench or the like, Jerry
#7
08-31-2011, 01:49 PM
my '93 has a carpeted panel across the back of the tailgate. removing that panel, just like the panels on the driver & passenger doors, reveals the access plate you need to get to those bolts. Yours doesn't have that panel??
#8
09-02-2011, 02:37 PM
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The parts that I cannot get to are the screws that are above and below the taillight, where they bolt to the corner of the truck. The latch that is mounted to the tailgate is secure.
#9
09-02-2011, 07:22 PM
sorry...thought u meant the center bracket....your looken to find a way to the end of #11....I was going to take mine off too and ran into the same thing, it looked like the entire quarter panel had to come off so I gave up.....
good luck with it.....
good luck with it.....
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