full size spare tire storage

under is absolutely out.

so is hanging it off the truck anywhere.

anyone carry their spare vertical in the bed like in the olden days? (think Timmy & Lassie in their '58 Dodge)

 

Your picture shows what a narrow bed truck should be like. The new style is a waste in my opinion.

A few years ago I rigged up a holder for a neighbor to carry the spare vertically inside the bed of her chevvy. You could try that. The plastic bed on ours might make that a bit more difficult, tho.

 

I imagine the local fabrication shop can cobble something to bed rail mount with added webbing & binder ratchet gadget to hold the wheel & tire from rolling or wobbling, but I figured the Brain Trust has already considered this solution and didn't want to reinvent the wheel.

 

I carry a gas can at the back corner of my truck. There are two eyelets in the bed rail. I use a ratchet strap with an extra hook to connect to those eyelets, with the strap around the top of the can. The ratchet end of the strap goes diagonally across the can to the anchor at the back of the bed. Something like that might work for a spare tire.

 

is there anything holding the bottom of the can from kicking out? like the gadget on the old army jeeps?



I had one of these mounted inside the cap on my first truck 1973 Ford F-100. that poor truck took a beating, but I've gotten better over the years.

 

The ratchet strap holds the can quite firmly without any thing else required. FWIW, I use a ground cloth over the can to prevent unnecessary damage to the can.

For a tire, the ratchet strap would be below the center of the tire nearly all the way across. The bed is only about 17" high. I haven't tried it on mine--it looks like the tire would come pretty close to the camper shell on the side.