Just FYI, I have 285/75/16 tires on my truck and have a full size spare on the same style 16" aluminum wheel that I run on my truck. That tire is almost 33" in diameter. When storing the spare under the bed, I found that I had to let the air out of the tire to get it to fit between the frame rails. I keep a small air compressor in the truck to to refill the spare tire with air in the event I need it.

 

LOL Ill stuff mine under the tool box, if it doesnt fit there I'll get a pump.

 

I love my spare being in the stock location. Hidden away and can't see it.

Only issue I ever had with it in the stock location was after I purchased the truck and brought it home. A friend was following me. Almost made it to the exit ramp to go home and I noticed that my friend was weaving behind me. When I got home, I looked up under the bottom of the truck and the metal plate had rusted badly and folded over to allow the spare tire to eject from the truck. The incident scared my friend half to death. I went back up to the highway exit and found my spare tire sitting up against a guard rail. I brought the spare back home and found a replacement spare tire cable retainer. After that experience, I still don't trust the retainer. I plan to run a couple of cables in an "x" pattern under the spare and affix the cables to the frame to keep that from ever happening again, unless someone else has a better solution.

 

Ford had a hinged y shaped carrier with two hinges on the y arms. There was a latch in front.

I have had cables break on both my Dodge and an S 10. The road salt packs up there and suddenly you are without a spare. Both times on gravel driveways. At one time there was a chain lift rather than a cable, maybe my old Totota HiLux. or Lite Stout?
I have a new cable unit behind the seat waiting for a tire for the wheel.

 

Got to love the rust belt, NOT! I think you could make a bracket and have the cable pull the tire up to to the bracket. Weld a bolt or two on the bracket so they line up with bolt pattern on the rim. Then you could secure the spare with nuts.

 

Yeah, but, then the nuts would rust up, and when you needed your spare, it would have become a permanent part of the frame.

 

To Moparite, in my experience the cables failed. Maybe on the new installation I will smother the end with a silicone caulking to dissuade water entry?
Grease just might attract dirt, dust, and bind the whole mechanism up.
Then again chinesium always finds a way to fail at the worst time.

 

4 falcon Wildpeak tires are on order $1100 they'll be in this weekend

 

Check with Simple tire on the price.

 

they are cheaper through the guy at my work