In have the U-shape and my spare is inside the T@B, under the left back side of the 'couch.' If you mount your spare on the tongue, buy a good cover for it as sun and weather will deteriorate it more rapidly. Some owners have mounted their spare on the side of the tongue - just watch the clearance. Also, if you add the storage box on the tongue, be careful of your tongue weight as it could affect your towing safely. There are pictures in the photo albums - just check through the likely ones in the beginning of the albums.
Sandra Rutan
--- In tabtrailers@yahoogroups.com, "dar05wen" <darrenajames@...> wrote:
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> It appears from further reading that the Topos spare tire carrier won't work with the clamshell... So then either a frame mounted tire carrier or fabricate a carrier to the side of the tongue box appears to be my options. Anyone been through this yet? Any tips, adivce, clearance issues?
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> --- In tabtrailers@yahoogroups.com, "dar05wen" <darrenajames@> wrote:
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> > I picked up our new T@B yesterday and had the dealer remove the the spare and hanger, but forgot to ask if they filled the mounting bracket bolt holes with anything to prevent water from working in.. I'll have to crawl under and investigate.
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> > I got the clamshell model and it did not come with the molded propane cover, so i'm investigating a tongue box (Delta 33" model), and wondering if anyone else with a clamshell had clearance for the Delta tongue box and the Topos tire hanger? Or has anyone reinforced thier aluminum tongue box walls and mounted the tire on the side of the box?
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> > Any other suggestions?
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> > --- In tabtrailers@yahoogroups.com, "Dan Altenes" <daltenes@> wrote:
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> > > Tropos is the only way to go - a great solution. One bit of advice: after moving the spare, be sure and remove the old spare tire mount underneath the trailer - it's very likely something along the highway would catch on the hanger - not a pretty idea!!!
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> > > --- In tabtrailers@yahoogroups.com, "jrw136" <jrw320@> wrote:
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> > > > I know we've hashed this topic over quite a bit but for those who have done nothing now's the time to think about what you're up against. Knowing I'll never have a flat in a convenient location I decided to remove my spare tire the other day. How lucky I am to have done it in the carport. I started off wrong with the first action, I raised the front of the trailer rather than the rear. I think it would have been easier to do it the other way. Now the lug nuts holding the wheels on the trailer are 17 mm, but the bolts keeping the spare on are not. They are 19 mm. It took me three trips shimming under that thing to find out. And they must have been put on by King Kong. Not that I'm a wimp either, I made my way through college on a football scholarship and I had problems breaking them. One trip more for a pipe with which to get more leverage. After getting the tire off of the hanger I then discovered the bracket was so low I could not get the tire out unless I took the bracket off first. Another trip out to get yet another size wrench. This maybe could have been avoided by lifting the rear rather than the front but by this time it didn't matter. I reckon the moral of this story is to do this task at your convenience, and take an assortment of metric wrenches under there with you when you do.
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