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Tibof 
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Joined: 19 Sep 2017 Location: North Idaho Online Status: Offline Posts: 115 |
 Topic: Quick How To: Installing BAL Hide-A-SparePosted: 02 Aug 2020 at 1:09pm |
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Has anyone used or considered the BAL Retract-A-Spare?
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2015 Pod Hood River Edition
2012 Tacoma Crew Cab 4 Liter |
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Tibof
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Joined: 19 Sep 2017 Location: North Idaho Online Status: Offline Posts: 115 |
Posted: 01 Aug 2020 at 10:39am |
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Many thanks for your information.
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2015 Pod Hood River Edition
2012 Tacoma Crew Cab 4 Liter |
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GlueGuy
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Joined: 15 May 2017 Location: N. California Online Status: Offline Posts: 2705 |
Posted: 31 Jul 2020 at 6:38pm |
The 217 is probably your best bet. The recess between frame members is only about 4", so he spare will hang down a bit. We ended up drilling at almost the very bottom of the frame in order to make enough clearance for the spare tire.
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bp
2017 R-Pod 179 Hood River 2015 Ford F150 SuperCrew 4WD 3.5L Ecoboost |
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Tibof
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Joined: 19 Sep 2017 Location: North Idaho Online Status: Offline Posts: 115 |
Posted: 31 Jul 2020 at 12:27pm |
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So, for a HRE, which model would be best? That is, give the most mounting flexibility. The 217 or 218. This is for a 2015 HRE. Or put another way, does the 218 have to hang so low or could it be modified? I assume the mounting bracket could be cut to give a custom fit for the tire. Or does 217 give the mounting plates plenty of bolting surface with proper tire fit?
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voisj
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Joined: 19 Jul 2016 Location: San Luis Obispo Online Status: Offline Posts: 471 |
Posted: 19 Aug 2018 at 11:33am |
Here is mine on the 180. It sits just in front of the axle and hangs no lower than the axle.You can see I lowered both brackets so the hood river tire would fit between the floor and the carrier. If your hitting this stuff on anything your trying pretty hard. On the 180 you also get the added benefit of supporting the floor in the pod, I have heard of these sagging on some pods.  |
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tony rpod 180
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Joined: 18 Aug 2018 Location: Arkansas Online Status: Offline Posts: 75 |
Posted: 19 Aug 2018 at 9:02am |
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Wow! You are right, thanks everybody!
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GMC Canyon/RPoder
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StephenH
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Joined: 29 Nov 2015 Location: Wake Forest, NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 6418 |
Posted: 18 Aug 2018 at 9:20pm |
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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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StephenH
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom,... ouR escaPOD mods Former RPod 179 Current Cherokee Grey Wolf 24 JS |
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AZ Pete
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Joined: 01 Jul 2017 Location: AZ Online Status: Offline Posts: 5 |
Posted: 18 Aug 2018 at 7:29pm |
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It still has plenty of ground clearance
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tony rpod 180
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Posted: 18 Aug 2018 at 7:13pm |
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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
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Posted: 18 Aug 2018 at 6:02pm |
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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
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Quick How To: Installing BAL Hide-A-Spare
