Basically, what I want to know, is if I found an old rear tire swing gate off a Bronco or Bronco II, can it be mounted to an Expy? Is there enough frame back there to support that weight?
No way to mount it to Expedition, in stock form
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Basically, what I want to know, is if I found an old rear tire swing gate off a Bronco or Bronco II, can it be mounted to an Expy? Is there enough frame back there to support that weight?
No way to mount it to Expedition, in stock form
Well, it was just an idea that something like that could be mounted to the rear of an Expedition. Good to know that there is now no way for an older carrier to be mounted there. Still sucks a little, lol. Don't have the mechanical knowledge for build one from scratch and now that I know what there will be required mods to make it work like an older Bronco, not a project that I want to pursue. Thank you for the insight and information, that really helped point me in the right direction.
I wouldn't say it won't work. That's on my list of mods. I'm taking the interior of the csrgo area apart and looking at what to reiforce to add the tire carrier from an FSB Bronco.
Here's the biggest obstacle I've observed so far, more so than the reinforcements:
There isn't any space above the tailight for the upper hinge to attach to as the rear hatch gets in the way.
Now the dilemma is: do I clearance cut the corner of the rear hatch around the passenger side rear taillight, or find a way to modify the upper hinge to somehow clear the hatch and also work?
Would it be at all possible to build up the hinge that would go on the body, spread the arms a little and mount the bottom hinge to the bumper without causing too much torque issues? Meaning the body and the bumper don't actually move the same although they are on the same frame. That would put the hinges straddling the light. But, that would take some metal work and light engineering.
It would appear that to make a carrier work from a Bronco or similar would mean adjusting the position of the tail lights on the Expy to facilitate the mounting of the bracket to be above and below the light. That would be a lot of body work and some rewiring on both sides to line up the lights. That option is probably a bit more than most would want to do.