Swing-away spare or roof top spare?

[Egan]

I need some opinions from the folks here. I currently have my spare tire on the swing-away mount. After picking up a trailer I plan to convert into an expedition camping trailer I discovered I can't swing the tire away and get to the bed because the mount hits the surge brake reservoir on the trailer. It's going to be a pain to have to drop the trailer any time I need to access the bed on long camping trips.

I pretty much have two options:

1) Remove the surge brakes (not really needed on a trailer of this weight and capacity) and relocate the pintle
2) Mount the spare on the Gobi Ranger rack. I can buy a separate mount kit even though I don't have the spare tire specific rack: https://www.trailduty.com/product_in...0a3a2309f46996

It's going to be a royal pain to get the tire up there and back down every time I rotate the tires or in a flat situation, but it isn't exactly easy to get it off the swingaway carrier either. I will lose some storage space on the rack, but that's the point of the trailer.

Recommendations?



Here's a really crappy blow up of the issue. I'd get something better, but the trailer is in the garage right now.