Replace spare tire hoist

[alpinecrick]

Wonder if a cable off a GMT 800 would be the same? That would give you a bigger pool to look for one.

Good idea! Bet it is.....

 

[Supercharged111]

OP is in Houston. He'd be hard pressed to not find a good one in the bone yard.

 

[Barry769]

Thanks to everybody for all the information and comments.

 

[Barry769]

OP is in Houston. He'd be hard pressed to not find a good one in the bone yard.

I'll give him a holler

 

[GMCTruck]

My spare tire winch cable broke after 14 years. I was driving down a country road, drove over some train tracks and I heard a noise that sounded like a glass bottle breaking. I looked out my passenger side window and saw my spare tire actually roll past me on the shoulder, go down into the ditch, hopped over a barbed wire fence and ended up 20 yards into a farmers field.
I picked up a replacement winch at a local wrecker but it never really lined up the same. It was from a '97 and mine is a '95.
Ended up making a simple brace and mounting the spare in the box.

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[someotherguy]

Wonder if a cable off a GMT 800 would be the same? That would give you a bigger pool to look for one.

You'd think something that simple would be universal for a bunch of years, but engineers do love to change things. GMT800's are a big enough departure it makes me doubt much carries over at all, so I did look; the part # for the GMT400 hoist fits across the entire run of GMT400's. GMT800 part changed and the first version only fits 1999-2002 800's, then they changed it again for 2003 and that one fits all the way up to 2020.

Richard

 

[454cid]

My spare tire winch cable broke after 14 years. I was driving down a country road, drove over some train tracks and I heard a noise that sounded like a glass bottle breaking. I looked out my passenger side window and saw my spare tire actually roll past me on the shoulder, go down into the ditch, hopped over a barbed wire fence and ended up 20 yards into a farmers field.
I picked up a replacement winch at a local wrecker but it never really lined up the same. It was from a '97 and mine is a '95.
Ended up making a simple brace and mounting the spare in the box.

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Man that looks like you've been keeping it in a swamp...... I guess I can't say too much though. Earlier this year I found the leaves in my truck actually were decomposing enough to smell a bit like one.

 

[454cid]

You'd think something that simple would be universal for a bunch of years, but engineers do love to change things. GMT800's are a big enough departure it makes me doubt much carries over at all, so I did look; the part # for the GMT400 hoist fits across the entire run of GMT400's. GMT800 part changed and the first version only fits 1999-2002 800's, then they changed it again for 2003 and that one fits all the way up to 2020.

Richard

I can see the 800 using a different part than the 400 since the chassis' are so radically different... mostly hydroformed. It's weird they changed it again so soon, Though. Unless maybe they did a super poor job at it the first time. We've got early oddball stuff too, I guess.

My interior hood latch is out of a GMT-800. I noticed it was the same on something else too, at the auction.... an Envoy, I think.

 

[GMCTruck]

Man that looks like you've been keeping it in a swamp...... I guess I can't say too much though. Earlier this year I found the leaves in my truck actually were decomposing enough to smell a bit like one.

I assumed everyone's spare tire looked like that. I guess living under the truck is particularly ******* the steel wheels. At least no one wants to steal it....

 

[GMCTruck]

I guess i can't say h a r d o n.....