Vertical spare bed mount?

Not sure where to put this? Thinking of making a spare tire mount for fun. I read about how doing this causes the bed to flex and crack so I was wondering what everyone would think of something like this.

most of the support is bolted to the bottom of the bed and only one support to the rail system that would have a stud or something to hold the wheel from falling over. And a tie down holding the tire down to the bottom mount.

Something like this I would think would distribute the force of a spare trying to rip itself off the rail system. All the rail would be doing is keeping the spare from tipping over side to side.

Excuse the poorly done ms paint illustration.

 

I think it’d be fine just using the bed bolts. Maybe work in the d ring bolt too.

 

It would only use the rail system so there is a mount to keep the tire from tipping while cornering.

 

I like it! I was going to do something very similar to mine.

 

I gotcha. I just figure why not use the d ring bolt too (keeping the d sting of course). A lot stronger than the bed rails...

 

Would be nice to make it more quick release too. Maybe come up with a way to have tabs off the bed bolts that would bolt to the tire mount. So you could unbolt the whole thing and not have to remove the bed bolts everytime.

 

Here's one that I had a local shop weld up for me. It mounts to the driver's side bed rail at the rear corner. Has an adjustable plate that can support any size truck tire. I also run a cargo strap around the tire attaching to the bed rail cleats. The bed rail ripping apart does worry me though. I only use it when I'm going off-road and have the bed loaded up pretty full. If I use the factory spare location the tire rubs the diff.

You can see in the pic that they didn't weld one of the studs perfectly centered so I can't use an acorn lug nut on that stud.

 

I do like the OP's idea of using the bed bolts for support.

 

If there was a way to strap the tire downward to the bed securely I can see that working pretty good. I’m trying to make something that is somewhat isolated from the rail system to where it is almost not needed.

 

Yep. That was the main reason I had the plate made to be adjustable. So the weight of the tire is resting on the bed itself. If I had had D-rings mounted to the bed floor I could cargo strap the tire vertically and would feel a lot better about it.
But, I have a bed mat and don't wanna cut holes in it.

 

Something like this but fine tuned. Not even sure how the tire fits back there.

 

That's a good looking design! A 33" tire fits with a little room to spare (2-3") in the rear corners of the bed.