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If you're only keeping a spare tire up there, check out the SAS Jeep tire carrier.

Was also thinking it could provide a surface to mount pioneer tools on either side.

"Kind of puts a cramp on putting the windshield down"

Or the hood up. BW

It is NOT a Jeep Willys! It is a Willys jeep.

Happy Trails! Good-bye, Good Luck, and May the Good Lord Take a Likin' to You!

We Have Miles to Jeep, Before We Sleep.

I would think a rack like that would cause damage to the hood itself eventually. It would be difficult (and heavy) to reinforce the hood enough to carry all that weight on just sheet metal.

There's a reason it's called Ol' Unreliable

I finally found the thread where I saw the spare tire carrier. At the moment the manufacturer website isn't working, but I was just on it yesterday.

http://g503.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1353200#p1353200

rocnroll wrote:

Bruce W wrote:

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'Why would you go around advertising to the world that you expect to open your hood?'. LOL

FWIW, I always kinda liked the look, impracticalities aside.

Well, if you don't open it once in a while, you're gonna need that rope!

BW

It is NOT a Jeep Willys! It is a Willys jeep.

Happy Trails! Good-bye, Good Luck, and May the Good Lord Take a Likin' to You!

We Have Miles to Jeep, Before We Sleep.

Check out the WW2 Marine Corps ambulance jeep. It had the spare tire mounted on the hood, but there was a bracket under the tire if I remember right that took the weight of the tire off the hood.
One of the few, Frank USMC RET

I did the hood mount on my MB, Tough to see the trail so the spare on the rear panel as it was supposed to be. Elegant solution to a non problem.
At least on the 48 Leftys they put the spare on the drivers side so you had a better view of it getting torn off by a tree or a rock.

uncamonkey

Interesting project. It does have cool factor to it.

I have had some experience with Land Rover’s military Series III Air-Portable model with a tire on the hood. The hood mounted spare can make seeing the trail / road a challenge at times. The Land Rover reminds me of wheeling in a CJ3B.

Additional things to consider reinforcing:

- The hood hinge. Over the years, the stock hoods hinges without the added weight of having a tire on them break from fatigue. The Land Rover has two hinges like a CJ5. You might consider a hinge up grade.

- Hood latches. The OEM latches allow for some side to side movement of the hood. You might consider doing something like adding more hood latches.

- Reinforcing the hood. You might consider adding some braces from the fire wall to the grill so the hood can rest on the supports without having to add additional weight to the hood. The land rover has these reinforcing braces mounted to the underside to of the hood. With the tire and bracing it seems like a 40-pound lift to raise the hood. The Air-portable has a hood stick to hold the hood / bonnet in the up position.

In the old days, the hard-core Land Rover types often carry two spare tires. One on the hood and one on rear door that is visible. They also could be fitted with the option to carry a spare on a wall that formed the seat back wall for the drives and passenger seat. The wall extended from side to side of the Rover. The tire mounted on the bed side of the wall and the seats on the dash side.

One issue with the hood mounted spare is that water can pool in the steel wheel and at the interface where the tire meets the steel rim. I have seen people take melted bees wax and brush it on to these areas to try to deal with this issue.

Two Cents

Stev

Edited by Stev - 11 Jan. 2017 at 6:57pm

Stev
1946 CJ2A Trail Jeep (The Saint), 1948 CJ2A Lefty Restored