Looks nice! I like the tire carrier. Can't wait to see taillights

 

from forgetting to latch it and driving and it swinging out...

 

what i did was buy a small lock and cable to secure it just in case.

while i am sorry to here that you have had this exp though, at least its safe to safe it wont tear out of the rear quarter.

 

yea its swung out on the highway before going like 50 mph it screached my tires a little but still in tact! I want to get a shock on on it, so it doesn't swing so freely

 

Ohh... I think I remember you posting that before. The strut/shock or cable is a good idea to slow it down and to keep it from opening too far.
I couldn't remove one bolt from mine at the junkyard and I had to end up ripping it off the blazer. It took a LOT of work to finally tear through the body panel. With 6 bolts, I don't think it's possible for it to rip through

 

I knew someone put a cable on theirs, but I couldn't remember who. Got a picture? I don't really care about locking mine, but I was thinking along the lines of a small cable and hairpin clip like you use for hood pins.

 

here ya go, i wrapped it thru several times to take up slack but still allow glass to go up when needed.

 

lol for a second I was like woah did he paint his blazer white??? and then I remembered you have racing stripes. so that lock doesn't interfere with the tire rack closing?

 

same thing happend to me!!!! i ended up tearing through the body on the junkyard one. and had to cut it off with a sawzall at home. and those shots with my tail lights are done. my friend is going to help me next time. so they turn out better.

 

I had to do mine a few times to get them the way I wanted to. lol wow I'm glad I didn't have trouble getting my rack off since I bought it off of someone and they were still driving it around... I asked her if she cared there were holes in her quarter panel but she didn't care so... I haven't seen that bravada since