Ah Ha. The PO had a spare Steel) with 2 extra holes drilled and 2 Hex screws to hold the wheel on. There are 2 short studs that appear to have been cut to about 1/2" long. Measuring these shortened studs they are are about 5.5 inches on centre, the Alcoa holes are 6.5 inches.
So it as I thought, I will be fabricating a new plate with studs placed correctly.
It was a long shot, just thought I would ask.
thanks

Peter Garry
73 - 23ft
Calgary, Alberta
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With all the folks who have had Jim Bounds at the coop remove the spare mount for the sake of "beauty" I'd bet he has quite a few complete mounts available for sale!

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Chuck,

Suggest you buy some grade 8 longer fully threaded bolts, stick them through holes in the spare tire mount then put a jam nut loaded
with red Locktite on them and tighten the S#!T out of the nuts.

You now have three studs to hang the spare on.

Regards,
Rob M.
The Pedantic Mechanic

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Boyd

Sir, our 76 23' only has the holes with the hex nuts. Real pain to install by myself.

C. Boyd

Matt,

You didn't make any comment and I couldn't figger out why you sent the email. Then I read what I had written in response to Chucks
message and the penny dropped!

I figger'd out what Chuck was saying was that instead of three studs welded to the spare tire plate he had three nuts welded to the
spare tire plate. Well at least that's what I think now.

Therefore my suggestion was useless!

At any rate a few more minutes of this problem rumbling around in the grey matter I figger'd out it would still work and it would
even be a cheaper fix!

Assuming that the nuts on the spare plate are 9/16 x 18 (same as the Alcoa lug nuts) and there is a through hole Chuck just has to
thread the bolts through the back of the plate and into the nuts. It doesn't matter if the nuts are on the "front" side or "back"
side of the spare plate it will work; he just has to get fully threaded bolts that are long enough.

Regards,
Rob M.

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Colie

USAussie wrote on Wed, 26 August 2015 19:47
> Chuck,
>
> Suggest you buy some grade 8 longer fully threaded bolts, stick them through holes in the spare tire mount then put a jam nut
> loaded with red Locktite on them and tighten the S#!T out of the nuts.
>
> You now have three studs to hang the spare on.
>
> Regards,
> Rob M.
> The Pedantic Mechanic
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Boyd
>
> Sir, our 76 23' only has the holes with the hex nuts. Real pain to install by myself.
>
> C. Boyd

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Charles wouldn't the easy way be to thread studs in loosely hang the rim in place then replace the studs with bolts one at a time?

Matt,

You didn't make any comment and I couldn't figger out why you sent the email. Then I read what I had written in response to Chucks
message and the penny dropped!
<snip>
Regards,
Rob M.