Anyone put a jerrycan holder on the back door of a Sierra?

[Rabbit]

Looking at putting a jerry can holder on the backdoor of the zook.
Any suggestions on how, tips, tricks, etc?

Thanks in advance

[lay80n]

Watch the weight, the rear doors end up sagging badly with just the tyre on them, any more wieght will jsut compund the issure.

Layto....

[rodw]

I've been thinking of building or getting someone to build a rear bar with a swing away tyre carrier and a duel jerry can holder. To do some touring I want a second spare and hope it might swing in front of the one on the door with room for two jerry cans beside the two tyres. Add a 2" receiver and some decent recovery points and it would be a great mod.

Any interest?

Rodw

[MART]

Hey rabbit , you have to watch how much weight is behind the rear axle as zuks when climbing up steep angle's tend to lift the front wheels some what , so you need to be careful how much weight you throw back there , as to why you need two spares , I would just get one off those plug repair kits and maybe some tyre lever's and even a tube if you want to go that far , tyres don't need a machine to change them , they are quite easy and you use the vehicle weight to break the bead or a highlift jack , these are the best thing you can buy as they will lift you car up and also break tyre beads and also can be used to winch your car if you buy the end attachment , don't know how many times that highlift got me out of trouble. The last zuk I had only had a highlift on the rear tyre and stage one gears and while driving up a 40 degree slope , picked the front wheels up and I rolled backward and then sideways twice , my mate got it all on video so when I get a converter I'll post it up , so just be caeful about the rear loading , Cheers Paul.

[Gwagensteve]

I've been thinking of building or getting someone to build a rear bar with a swing away tyre carrier and a duel jerry can holder. To do some touring I want a second spare and hope it might swing in front of the one on the door with room for two jerry cans beside the two tyres. Add a 2" receiver and some decent recovery points and it would be a great mod.

Any interest?

Rodw

OK, maximum payload on a sierra is 450kg.

Driver - 90kg
Fuel - 30kg
Second spare - 40kg?
Heavier wheel and tyres: 50kg?
2X jerry cans, full: 40kg
Carrier - 60kg?
Bull bar - 25kg
335kg before you put a passenger in it, or anything else.
Not much left for anything else...

[Rabbit]

Thanks peoples,
very useful information there.
Though I'm not planning on an extra tyre, and probably just 10litre jerry's with one water, and one fuel. And a sac of some sort, like a Michelle'ssacs bag for dirty snatch straps from rescuing Toyotas and Nissans.

Cheers.

[Pep]

Driver - 90kg

90KG That'd be Nice

[Bad JuJu]

Your rear tailgate will rip off.
Even just a larger tyre is WAY too much for the std back door.

A tyre carrier with 2x10 L jerrys will add approx 22kg behing your tyres (not including the weight of the carrier, the replacement bar and the possibly larger tyre its self.

On climbs this will add to the possibility of a back flip.

[fool_injected]

http://www.izook.com/tech/samurai/bumpe ... bumper.htm

[Pinball]

a long time ago i made a jerry carrier that bolted through the rear corner on the driver side, survived nicely till a mate reversed into a pole...

have since built a replacement bar with swingaway for the tyre off the driver side... works for me, although may yet bring the tyre closer to the door for leverage issues...

Sylvester had a swingaway carrier for tyre that mounted off the rear door hinge points, seemed to work ok... although bigger tyres may not be nice to it..

With the drop down tailgate conversion, i imagine it's on the market.

Spock

[Rabbit]

a long time ago i made a jerry carrier that bolted through the rear corner on the driver side, survived nicely till a mate reversed into a pole...

have since built a replacement bar with swingaway for the tyre off the driver side... works for me, although may yet bring the tyre closer to the door for leverage issues...

Sylvester had a swingaway carrier for tyre that mounted off the rear door hinge points, seemed to work ok... although bigger tyres may not be nice to it..

With the drop down tailgate conversion, i imagine it's on the market.

Spock

Hi Pinball. Got any pics of these things. I'd like to see them
Thanks

[vk5hks]

I made up a tyre hanger as my door nearly fell off.

It holds a jack lifter and a jerry as well.

Works nice and takes the load of the door![/img]

[built4thrashing]

i had to convert my rear door into a tailgate as even with just the 31 tyre on it it had started ripping the hinges out of the body. Tyre now sits in the back.

[CairnsZook]

Yeah, I've bolted a stainless jerry can holder onto my tail gate. No problems with cracks or doors falling off....

and I've never rolled it backwards either.

http://www.auszookers.com/uploads/forums/zookkp3.jpg

http://www.auszookers.com/uploads/forums/zookkp6.jpg

[Gwagensteve]

Yeah, I've bolted a stainless jerry can holder onto my tail gate. No problems with cracks or doors falling off....

Yet

It won't happen overnight...... but it will happen

Steve.

[mud4b]

i had a mate do this, he mounted it on the lhs nice and low then put a rubber stop on his bumper to take the weight. it DIDNT work and ended up ripping his hinges out from the body.

once fixed he then put 2 snap locks on the lhs of the tailgate and although a pain in the butt it is still working after 2 years..

[ABMM]

Holy necropost!

I've got a cheapie jerry can holder bolted directly to the tailgate of my 96 softtop coily. I've also got two spares mounted (two tyre brackets - one stock and another mounted inside). In addition, I made up a nylon webbing harness for another water or fuel jerrycan mounted to the inside of the tailgate. I have no rear seats installed, having a plastic space case and a couple of metal 20mm ammo cans in their place as a modular lockable boot system.

Until this arvo, she'd been off the road for about 12 months, but prior to that I had been daily driving it for about 5 years with semi-regular rough stuff once every couple of months (Newnes state forest in NSW and the Old Telegraph Track in Cape York amongst others) with no signs of cracking or hinges failing. It works pretty well for me, but with the amount of crap bolted to the tailgate, I tend not to open it that often.

Before anyone jumps on me for carrying that much crap hanging off the back of the Suzuki, the places I tend to drive you NEED two spares and as much cheap city fuel as you can carry (Archer River Roadhouse is currently selling ULP for $1.79 a litre).

[zooki]

had one for years with no problem, the empty holders weighs bugger all and its not like you have a full jerry can on all day every day.

or make your rear suspension soft enough to not shake the carp out of the car and it wont crack

[Danzo]

http://www.izook.com/tech/samurai/bumpe ... bumper.htm

There goes some of the sierra's lovely departure angle

Though it does look like a nice job

[lump_a_charcoal]

Why not get a long range tank instead?