Rear wheel / jerry can carrier

[chrisk]

Hi all, just thought I'd share this with you.
4 nights in the shed, a lot of beer and a bit of cursing have all come to fruition.
After trying to find a rear bumper spare wheel carrier for my 14 inch spare without any success I ended up building one from scratch.
Using some bits off ebay, a couple of gas shocks from the warranty bin at work, a heap of steel and a lot of elbow grease, my mate and myself managed to put together this nifty carrier which utilises the existing bumper.
After removing plastic bumper off the tin, we cut off the existing chassis mounts. Welded these onto a steel beam and boxed them in for strength. The beam was then hole sawed to add lightness. Then ran a couple of 8mm straps underneath to an existing towbar bolt on each side as well for stability.
We gutted the original metal bar reo and wrapped that around the steel beam, cut holes in it and the plastic bar and mounted two bearing hubs for each swing arm, which have a gas damper that opens the arms out.
It's crude, overengineered, but given the limited time we had, I think we did a good job.