Owners manual

POISON SPYDER CUSTOMS INST-17-13-010_C • JK Body Mounted Tire Carrier 11

can not give a torque speciﬁcation for this, but tighten

the fasteners ﬁrmly, but not so tight as to bind up the tire

carrier from swinging open smoothly. Use the same tools

to tighten the Lower Hinge assembly.

48. Swing the Tire Carrier open, and tighten the six

3/8-16 Gr8 Hex Head Cap Screws that fasten the Latch

Plate to the Jeep’s body. Remember you’ll need a 9/16”

socket with extension to reach the bolt heads, and a 9/16”

box end wrench through the taillight hole to hold the lock

nuts while tightening. Remember that there are Spacers

installed on the lower and middle bolts, to keep the two

layers of body sheet metal from crushing together. Still,

be careful not to over-tighten and deform the outer sheet

metal.

49. Locate the T-Latch lock assembly and observe the

threaded barrel. The two ﬂats of the threaded barrel will

engage into the similarly shaped laser-cut lock hole in the

tire carrier swing.

50. Fit the T-latch lock assembly and lock plate onto the

tire carrier swing.

51. With the lock receiver and heavy duty T-latch in

place, install the large washer lock-plate and large lock

nut onto the large threaded barrel of the T-latch, on the

back side of the tire carrier plate. FIRMLY tighten this nut,

taking care not to strip it (either the threads or the wrench

ﬂats). Leave the lock nut with one of the ﬂats lined up with

the two tabs on the lock plate. Use a ﬂat screwdriver to

bend the two tabs upward, until ﬂat against the adjacent

ﬂat surface of the lock nut, to lock it into place (the tabs are

not shown bent into place in the following photos).

52. Install the remaining small washer lock plates,

lock nuts, star lock-washers and Locking U-Plate onto the

threaded shaft of the heavy duty T-latch, in the order shown

in the following photo.

53. Run the inner lock-nut all the way inward, just to

have it out of the way. Then thread the outer lock-nut