I went through both sheets. When I tightened the nuts down onto the steel plate I added.. the panel did pull in alot. But since it is behind the interior panel I didn't care too much. If anyone else has any questions feel free to PM or post on here. I'll answer what ever needs explaining. I can even take more pics if anyone needs some more.

 

Looks good man! I've wanted to do this to mine, but I can't find a carrier anywhere close to me. Looking through your pics, I kept thinking "I hope he paints that". I was relieved when I saw that you did

mdehoogh, man up and do it already lol.

 

I live in southern Indiana. I went to a junkyard in Indy 3 weeks ago and to my surprize there were 3 two door blazers with the complete carriers on them. If it didn't cost so much to ship stuff I should go back and pull them off. It was pretty cheap. I got alot of stuff and I didn't spend over $75. But I used the spare from under mt blazer.
And yes it was pretty nasty looking. I just waited to paint it after I got it mounted so I could paint the head of all the bolts. Plus I scratched the crap out of my tail light gaurds. Oh... if you put the carrier on with guards like mine. The guard sits against the bottom side of the upper mount. They fit... But not as well as I would of hoped for.

 

:P

Work and school are in the way of my freetime lol. This week is spring break so maybe I'll get a chance to work on it soon.

Also, there's a carrier on a truck at a yard here in Ft. Worth. It's the same yard I got mine from for $20. About an hour south of the OK border straight down I35

 

Hmmm, tempting. I'm about 3 hours away from DFW, though. Will the yard remove it, or do I have to do it? My wife drives through DFW every other month on her way to Waco to visit family, I could have her pick it up, but she wouldn't take it off the vehicle. Wives are funny like that, go figure. Her Grandma works in Dallas and comes home every other week, I doubt she'd be up to removing a tire carrier.

 

Preparing to do mine in the next couple weeks or so, All who have done it are still having no body flex? I dont have a problem drilling into things, just dont want that back quarter panel to be wavy and then more things not line up

 

Theres a dent in my quarter pannel at the top because i forgot to latch it and it swung out while i was driving but other than that mine has been holding up good

 

Damn that sucks, but alright, did you put any reinforcement behind the body panels or none?

 

i have a locking cable to secure mine, that way it cant swing out if i dont latch it all the way. no reinf. and no warping at all going on 1 yr now.

 

So many of you have swingout carriers in yards by you, I wish I could find one by me. You guys always say that shipping would be crazy expensive. Have any of you ever checked for sure how much it would cost? I think that for the price you can get the carrier it would still be worth it to ship it as oppossed to paying like 600 bucks for all the crap from the dealer.. Even frieght shipping would probably be only like what 60 bucks or something like that? Most of you say you picked up your carriers for something like 40 bucks right?