Reviews for Smittybilt 7743 HD Pivot Tire Carrier for 18-23 Jeep Wrangler JL

Easy assembly, Very sturdy, Holds my 37x12.50 Spare Tire very well. Instructions
that were included were so so, But some great videos out there of instals.

Great tire carrier although it is great some of the instruction aren’t very clear on how to install. Here are some pointers.

-When removing the Camera from the OEM housing removing all bolt and torque screws. And using a hammer and a screw driver with the camera housing facing up, tap on the torque screw hole until the camera falls down.

The instructions say to use a heat gun to remove the camera but that doesn’t work. The housing is held down with clamping force.

- The SB7743 didn’t come with a license relocation bracket.

What I did was using one of the kit parts that come including with the kit that mounts the third brake

Then made a hole on the part that hold the spare tire and mounted so that the third rake light stays behind the tire. This allows me to use the same lug nuts that come from the factory and keep the third brake light behind. (I’ll leave a photo in this review)

Overall this tire carrier was easy to install. Give yourself about 4 hours to figure out everything out.

I really like the carrier, seems rugged and well made. Fairly easy install. However I bought this particular carrier because the sell a trail jack mount for it. The trail jack mount sucks. Jack hits tail light when opened all the way and one of the bolts actually hits the sheet metal just above tail light, and lip is too small so you have to take base plate off jack. The “JK version “ of this carrier and trail jack mount was much better.

Terrible quality. Product is made in China and you can tell. The nuts used are both standard and metric. The material used is the lowest quality. The nuts started to corrode writhing a month in a garage kept Jeep. I contacted smittybilt and complained, they said the would make corrections and send me new hardware. That was 2 months ago.

The engineering needs to be improved, I had to grind the tire bracket to adjust for the offset of my rims.