Here it is all torn down with the fresh deck lumber awaiting in the foreground:
Freshly painted with top of the line Rustoleum semi-gloss black
And here is the brand new deck installed, with galvanized lag screws coming up from the bottom through the crossmembers to hold the lumber firmly in place:
A couple trips later, I went back in and finally installed a hidden spare tire, using a pickup truck underbed spare tire winch that I had salvaged from a Ford F-series pickup many many years ago:
One of my 3/8” Craftsman universal joint socket adapters gave it’s life to the cause, allowing the jack shaft to make the transition over the tire to the pillow bearing plate:
And voila:
While the glue gun was out, I bent up some 1-3/4” tube and made a quickie light bar to finally add some rear facing task lighting. I can’t tell you how many after-dark recoveries having these lights would have been handy for
The basic idea:
Added my patented light tabs:
Complete with (4) 55watt halogen rubber body farm lights:
And the payoff:
The last item on the list was to re-install some reverse lights. I had added a reverse light circuit several years ago, but the plastic housing 3x5 rectangular halogen lights I was using kept breaking off their mounts and I quit replacing them at some point. Whilst perusing the aisles at O’Napzone the other day I stumbled across a nice looking set of extremely low profile LED fog lights and figured I’d give them a try:
Should be good for a few more years
