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POISON SPYDER CUSTOMS INST-17-13-010_C • JK Body Mounted Tire Carrier 5

place. Once the Latch Plate is in place, install 3/8” Flat

Washers and 3/8-16 Lock Nuts on to the threads of the

middle-upper and middle-lower cap screws, where they

protrude into the corner cavity of the Jeep, behind the

taillight hole.

Use a 9/16” socket with ratchet and a 9/16” box end

wrench (inside of the body tub) to tighten these bolts.

Tighten until the bolts are just barely snugged, so that the

Latch Plate may still be shifted from side to side on the

elongated bolt holes. DO NOT over-tighten these bolts.

They will be further tightened in a later step.

IMPORTANT: Be careful not to let the upper and lower

3/8-16 Cap Screws fall out of place before getting

the washers and nuts on to them in the next steps.

If the bolts fall out, you risk the Spacers falling down

between the two layers of body sheet metal. They

would be almost impossible to retrieve.

19. Install the Upper and Lower Latch Plate Braces. In

the following illustration, we’ve made the Jeep’s body tub

transparent to show how these pieces ﬁt together inside the

corner cavity of the body:

The taillight hole allows access to the interior cavity of

the body tub as shown in the following photo. Each of

the Latch Plate Braces attaches to the Latch Plate (with the

Jeep’s body panel sandwiched between) with (2) 3/8-16

X 1-1/2 Gr8 Hex Head Cap Screws which were inserted

in a previous step, with 3/8” Flat Washers and 3/8-16

Lock Nuts. Use a 9/16” socket with ratchet and a 9/16”

box end wrench (inside of the body tub) to tighten these

bolts. Tighten until the bolts are just barely snugged, so

that the Latch Plate may still be shifted from side to side on

the elongated bolt holes. DO NOT over-tighten these bolts.

They will be further tightened in a later step.

The Upper Latch Plate Brace will be bolted to the inner

body tub panels later in the installation process.

20. Peak through the taillight hole and observe the

Lower Internal Brace that was partially installed in the

previous step. Install (2) 1/4-20 X 1 Button Head Cap

Screws SS, with Flat Washers and lock nuts, to secure the

Brace, using two existing holes in the ﬂoor of the cavity in

the body tub. Tighten these bolts until just before they go

snug, so that the Brace may still move around slightly as

further adjustments to the Tire Carrier are made in later

steps.

21. Remove the plastic tailgate hinge covers. The

long cover may be removed by ﬁrmly grasping it near the

pivot side of the hinge, squeezing, and sliding it to the left.