Troopy double tyre carrier

Mick, I think you have misunderstood Lynette. What I think she is referring to is an arrangement where the second spare is mounted directly behind the original spare position. It finishes up looking like a truck dual wheel and leaves the smaller left-hand rear door unobstructed.

I have only seen this arrangement on SA police Troopies and guess that it is specially made for them. I too was interested but have not been able to locate a supplier by Googling.

PS. I have only seen then on unattended police Troopies and was not inclined to approach the vehicles and study them in detail. No guilty conscience you understand but..........! It was a pretty solid looking frame and not hanging on the door of course.

G'day Al. No I'm on the right track I think. Two spares mounted behind each other on the one side. Saw some well heeled and extremely overloaded 4x4's on this years GDEC trip and made mention of the impacts They had a full jerry of fuel mounted behind each wheel on a rear wheel carrier). Have actually used a series of RTA porta weighs to establish the effects of my two spares being mounted in the very rear of the pod on the handling dynamics of the 79 series ute.

Scotty and Gaby also utilised the spare mount on their troopy to mount a 2nd tyre casing only (Strapped to the spare with ratchet straps). This cut down a fair bit of weight but necessitates you having to mount the tyre onto a rim should the need arise.

Cheers Mick

Righto Mick. I should have read your response to Lynette more carefully. You did say "out past the spare wheel". However I have not found a commercial supplier of the arrangement like the SA police. It is a pretty solid bit of structure and as you say, creates a significant cantilever load....... but anything that tasks the load off the Troopy front diff might be a good thing! LOL.

My guess is that the SA cops wanted to leave the LH rear door readily accessible to easily chuck.... errrr.... cargo on board.

http://www.trektech.com.au/index.php They are in Adelaide I think and make odd stuff for 4wd

Cheers Al, I might have been a bit presumptuous. Hanging off the back of a well know brand, I've assumed that it must have been made by them when in all reality it may have been a custom or home made job.

Yes, sort of. The photo on that site of a dual-in-line wheel carrier is the arrangement. Apart from the photo I can find no other details of it on the site.
Mind you, the carrier on the SA police vehicles that I have seen are more massive construction.