speed-racer951
New member
I have a 2003 4x4 Suburban 2500 and want to relocate the spare tire from under the truck to a rear swing out bumper unit. Any ideas?
2003 4x4 Suburban 2500 rear bumper mounted spare tire
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02TahoeMD
Explorer
Now defunct Kennesaw Mountain Accessories used to make such a product, I have one on the back of my truck. Alas it required a good amount of cleanup for the price I paid. KMA has renamed themselves a few times and may still be making stuff, do not know. An idea that you can potentially do, if you have the money for it, is to purchase an ARB rear bumper / swing away assembly for a Toyota Land Cruiser and modify it to fit on your Suburban. I have taken the measurements of Series 80, 90, 100, and 200 LC's and the dimensions are pretty close to that of the GMT800 SUV's. I modified a ARB bumper to fit on the front of my Tahoe, and sometimes contemplate doing the same for the rear and selling the KMA bumper.
Another potential choice would be Buckstop bumpers, I think they would modify one of their own products to mount a spare tire carrier. Not sure how much that will cost.
If you have a metal shop near you, fab up an idea out of heavy cardboard and take that to them as a template and have them weld up a bumper.
Regardless, you are gonna have to shell out some $$ to make it a reality, because there just is not the demand for bumpers for our SUVs.
Another potential choice would be Buckstop bumpers, I think they would modify one of their own products to mount a spare tire carrier. Not sure how much that will cost.
If you have a metal shop near you, fab up an idea out of heavy cardboard and take that to them as a template and have them weld up a bumper.
Regardless, you are gonna have to shell out some $$ to make it a reality, because there just is not the demand for bumpers for our SUVs.
speed-racer951
New member
Thank you for the information.
ClovisMan
Observer
Try James at:
https://www.rlcweldfab.com/
He made my dual swingout rear bumper for a fraction of the cost of ARB/Buckstop etc.
https://www.rlcweldfab.com/
He made my dual swingout rear bumper for a fraction of the cost of ARB/Buckstop etc.
Speedracer, where are you located? I have an 01 2500 Suburban with custom bumpers on front and rear. I had a local fab shop make them. Looking at selling truck in somewhat near future so might pull bumpers off if you are interested Ill try to get some pictures of them in next couple of days
ClovisMan
Observer
He doesn't have a lot of what he does on his website. give him a call, I'm sure he's made a few GMT800 products. My rear bumper with both swingouts was 1200.00, my front winch bumper was 700. Shipped through Fastenal for 120.00. I literally got both bumpers shipped for the price of a single ARB/Buckstop.
rayra
Expedition Leader
Jelorian has a decent hitch-mounted spare carrier in his Sub topic, IIRC. I'll go look for it.
eta eh his pics were all on Photobucket and are now gone / removed.
fyi the first post in my GMT800 / Vortec maintenance topic has a link to a roster of all the GMT800 Sub / Tahoe / Avalanche guys around at the time, with links to their build topics.
https://www.expeditionportal.com/fo...uburban-yukon-etc.155266/page-21#post-2302987
eta eh his pics were all on Photobucket and are now gone / removed.
fyi the first post in my GMT800 / Vortec maintenance topic has a link to a roster of all the GMT800 Sub / Tahoe / Avalanche guys around at the time, with links to their build topics.
https://www.expeditionportal.com/fo...uburban-yukon-etc.155266/page-21#post-2302987
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RedRunner87
Active member
This is my plan since there aren't a lot of options for rear bumpers for my truck. Its a hitch-mounted spare tire carrier, seems to be decently priced.
https://detoursofmaine.com
https://detoursofmaine.com
Jelorian
Adventurer
I'm slowly working on getting all the pics hosted somewhere else. Rayra, where did you end up putting yours?
I'm currently evaluating postimages.org and it seems pretty easy to use.
OP, here is a pic of my Wilco Hitchgate. I like the convenience of being able to remove it.
02TahoeMD
Explorer
Jelorian it appears that Photobucket has released the hostage photograph links. I just checked my build thread - which I had kinda just left alone since all the photos were broken - and discovered all the photos are back. The difference is that Photobucket puts a watermark on them indicating they are hosting the photo. Not a real big deal to me, I surely did not feel like going back over 20 some pages of postings I have done on this site ( not to mention other forums) and fixing the issue. I guess patience and refusing to pay the ransom worked in the long run.
rayra
Expedition Leader
I wound up adding a personal domain / directory to a discussion forum I inherited and admin, I set up an image-hosting subdirectory and put it all in there. Easier to pay half (~$70/yr) the annual unlimited bandwidth fees of the forum than deal with another image hosting fiasco. Took forever for me to repopulate topics across several hobby / interest forums.
Jelorian
Adventurer
OP, don't mean to go off topic but just wanted to reply to 02TahoeMD and Rayra.
02TahoeMD, I was so pissed when Photobucket pulled their shennanigans that I went and deleted every album and pic I had on there. In hindsight maybe I should have left them as now I'm using a different image host and going through my old postings. It will take awhile, but I'm sure I don't have nearly as much content to update as you. Hehe.
Jelorian
Adventurer
Rayra, I have decided to use postimages.org and it seems to be pretty good. Easy to use, drag and drop if you are super lazy and it generates all the links for you like photobucket used to do. I also have other hobby/interest forums that I have posted pics on, but as I am not as interested I will just leave them for now.