Storing Tire in Truck Bed

[Nicaragüense]

I hear you on that. American trucks finally copied Japan's winch system. The mount on my '86 F-250 was awful.
I use a ratchet strap stretched between frame rails to add piece of mind after having my winch fail after a bunch of Mexico runs on my '99 Dodge.
Rare but it happens.

When I bought my Dodge used from the original owner, he had a chain wrapped around the frame holding the spare because the cable winch failed. Seems to be a common failure. I have since upgraded tires and the 285s I have are just barely big enough to fit between the frame rails under there so I never repaired the winch system. I too am looking to make a in bed spare dealio. I also want to strengthen the bedsides a bit so they dont get floppy on the replacement bed I found for the old dodge. These newer trucks' bed sheetmetal doesnt hold up to the abuse of the older American fullsize trucks.

 

[danfromsyr]

for old style trucks there's been brackets of varying design for many years
this just one of them
http://www.autoanything.com/hitch-bed-accessories/go-industries-spare-tire-mount