We bought my son a 1989 S10 Blazer 4x4. The spare tire is inside the truck behind the back seat. Trying to find a bracket or something to relocate it to the outside of the truck. What are my options?

 

A swing-out tire carrier is your best option. They can be hard to find, though. Occasionally, somebody here has one for sale, and there are a few write-ups about installation.

 

How about a foldable hitch tire carrier?

 

That would work, not sure how it works with towing, if itll cut you weight limit down or not. If you can find a swing out carrier, they bolt to the truck and leave you hitch accessible.

 

I've made the tire carriers where they slip into the receiver and they work really well that way but you do lose a lot of the towing function in the process. You can make it where it does both but then you have to deal with being able to access the back of the truck, it would also cut down on the towing capacity because it detracts from the weightthat the receiver is designed to handle. One big plus to making one that slides into the receiver is that you can make them where they drop the tire down below the "line of sight" when looking out your rear mirror. I like the looks of the swing out holders but when you're towing something like a boat they can be a pain because you can only swing them so far in some applications or they hit the winch tower on the boat trailer. Some people mount them in a basket on the roof but I don't think that's a good alternative at all.

 

The tire carriers for the first gen Blazers are easy to find since they were installed on both 2-dr and 4-door models. It is the external tire carriers for the second gen Blazers that are hard to find.

There are companies that will sell external tire carriers. Wilco has a range of them that mount to the class-III receiver. These are designed to allow for towing too. They are a bit pricey though. https://wilcooffroad.com/shop/hitchgate-solo/

I considered this for my Blazer but I decided to get a stock external carrier from a 2-door to mount so have the stock look. I have not installed it yet though.

 

I forgot about the Wilco. That's a nice unit, but "a bit pricey" is an understatement. That thing costs twice as much as I paid for my Blazer when I bought it.

 

did you install the stock tire carrier????

 

If you're looking for discussions on how to install a swing out tire carrier on the 2nd gen 4 door Blazer, check out this thread: So you want a tire carrier on your 4 door Blazer? It's an older thread so many of the picture links are broken, but some do still work.

 

I have a spare tire carrier to install on my 2nd gen 4dr. I've collected a lot of posts from others who have done this.

Some sort of sort of reinforcement is required. The stock mounting hardware consists of formed sheet metal with attached nuts.