Spare tire mount under the bed with trailer hitch?

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Can I see the parts assembly like it can be disassembled, I just want to see the components because I have one in pieces but I don’t know where or what they look like. I have the band that is the hood down for sure, snd a bracket on the frame.

Mine looks just like Craigs in Post #6
 

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I'm having a 'cage' made that resembles the tire carrier under a semi trailer. One side open - can push the wheel up into the cage, then use a chain / lock to keep it in. Always hated that whole setup from the factory for reasons @Raider L has already mentioned.

I have a Class 5 hitch going in so all my cross members and tire carrier is sitting here - as soon as the hitch and new spare carrier is in, they can all go away. The cross members are even powder coated satin black.
 

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These are wht I referred to

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@AuroraGirl The bracket on the frame looks like the illustration on the glide-out, but the carrier piece does not. LMC says the glide-out, and the standard carrier that Craig 85 posted started in '75, so that may be an earlier one. Can't say I've seen enough of these things to know for sure.
 

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78 is the bracket lol but the other is unknown, might not even be GM for all I know. There were a few 2nd gen rams that served short order as one-season plow trucks before frames buckled and cut up and scrapped by my grandfather many moons ago, and I have an F150 with a presumable ability to have a spare but Ive never checked into if it can with 2 tanks
 

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Glide out carrier as well, ever find a hitch to co-exsist?
 

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Glide out carrier as well, ever find a hitch to co-exsist?
I would suspect if you somehow had one that didnt sit below the frame rails that it possibly could work together. but thats.... well I dont need to explain why that isnt exactly a bolt on thing lol
 

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