Quick How To: Installing BAL Hide-A-Spare

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   Remember that the tire gets lowered as well as getting pulled out. There will be room. I had one mounted on our RP179. The HR's 15" wheel isn't that much bigger than the 14" wheels on ours. I don't have it mounted now because I used that space for my ladder and sewage hose holders and put the tire on its original mount. It was okay when I had it there. Like you, I was concerned about space, but realized that it was a non-issue as soon as I saw that lowering it would give plenty of clearance for the stabilizer.

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StephenH Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 29 Nov 2015 Location: Wake Forest, NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 6418	Topic: Quick How To: Installing BAL Hide-A-Spare Posted: 19 Jul 2018 at 4:05pm
	Remember that the tire gets lowered as well as getting pulled out. There will be room. I had one mounted on our RP179. The HR's 15" wheel isn't that much bigger than the 14" wheels on ours. I don't have it mounted now because I used that space for my ladder and sewage hose holders and put the tire on its original mount. It was okay when I had it there. Like you, I was concerned about space, but realized that it was a non-issue as soon as I saw that lowering it would give plenty of clearance for the stabilizer.
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GlueGuy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 15 May 2017 Location: N. California Online Status: Offline Posts: 2705	Posted: 19 Jul 2018 at 5:16pm
	Did you turn/rotate your rear stabilizers? In the back of our HRE, the rear stabilizers are mounted at a (roughly) 45 degree angle. They seem like they would seriously encroach on the space occupied by the hide-a-spare and spare tire.
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StephenH Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 29 Nov 2015 Location: Wake Forest, NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 6418	Posted: 19 Jul 2018 at 8:14pm
	No, the midwest edition has the same layout for the stabilizers as the HRE. When the BAL is mounted, the tire sits toward the center of the R-Pod. If the tire were square, it would be a problem. The stabilizers clear the tire because it is not near them when it is centered in the space between the steps and the crossbar that supports the original spare carrier.
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GlueGuy Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 15 May 2017 Location: N. California Online Status: Offline Posts: 2705	Posted: 20 Jul 2018 at 8:22am
	I will lay it out this weekend. The vertical space will be close. The tire is 9" wide. The frame is 4" tall, and the BAL allows 6-1/2" on one side and 6" on the other (so 10 to 10-1/2 inches). That means we "should" have 1 to 1-1/2" clearance for the tire.
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tony rpod 180 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 18 Aug 2018 Location: Arkansas Online Status: Offline Posts: 75	Posted: 18 Aug 2018 at 5:38pm
	i have a 2018 R pod 180 Hood River Edition and tried to install the spare tire rack. The width of the 15" tires prevented the mounting of the locking bracket to the frame. I needed at least 2 more inches to mount the bracket to the camper frame. I didn't realize this until AFTER I cut both telescoping rods on the BAL rack so it would fit between the frame rails. Now i'm stuck with a 35lb paper weight.
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crw8sr Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 12 Oct 2017 Location: Omaha Nebraska Online Status: Offline Posts: 328	Posted: 18 Aug 2018 at 6:02pm
	Get creative and extend the attachment points with some metal plate.
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AZ Pete Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 01 Jul 2017 Location: AZ Online Status: Offline Posts: 5	Posted: 18 Aug 2018 at 6:02pm
	just take the mounting plates to a welding shop and have them extended about 2". That is what I did to mount mine on our 180

tony rpod 180 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 18 Aug 2018 Location: Arkansas Online Status: Offline Posts: 75	Posted: 18 Aug 2018 at 7:13pm
	We thought about that, however we decided the rack would hang too close to the ground for our comfort.
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AZ Pete Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 01 Jul 2017 Location: AZ Online Status: Offline Posts: 5	Posted: 18 Aug 2018 at 7:29pm
	It still has plenty of ground clearance

StephenH Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 29 Nov 2015 Location: Wake Forest, NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 6418	Posted: 18 Aug 2018 at 9:20pm
	If you look at it, it does not hang below the level of the steps (on our 179 it didn't). Anything that would take out the BAL Hide-A-Spare would also likely take out the steps with it.
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