Overbuild the tailgate swingout!

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Hedrock

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For the Travelers equipped with the spare tire swingout/gas can mount, please build it to reliably handle more than just that weight.

It would be nice to be able to have enough safety factor to just add on more mounting points for more stuff - more fuel cans, water, traction boards, shovels, jacks, trash bags, firewood, what have you - without the hinges or latch having problems or the swingout rattling excessively.

This has been an issue for Broncos where adding much extra weight tweaks or cracks the hinges, or bends the whole tailgate.
 
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You would need a massively disproportionate front-end to accommodate a 33 in a frunk. For reference, i would need about 10 more inches of length just to manage to fit the spare in my Frunk, plus you would need some sort of bracket, mounting and retention system, so likely more like 15". The nose of the Scout would have to be stretched like a limo with a hottub, I'm. afraid
Well now you have me thinking I want a hot tub in my frunk. 😹
 
People do DO THIS, but I just lug a cooler around.

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