Kind of reviving an old thread, but I didn't want to start a new one when this one talked about the same thing I just went thru.
So about 5 yrs ago, when I bought our boat, I mangled the spare tire mount as I backed over the hump in our driveway (mounted on the side frame rail). So for the last 5 yrs we've had our spare mounted on the trailer tongue...

I've wanted to move it forever...so I finally decided to make a mount for the spare to go in between the frame rails. The attached pictures are of how it turned out.
These are the pieces after I cut them. (I did make some minor mods to theses during the build)

Initial welds...

Mounted in place...


With the spare & then the final view!


The paint I used was Rustoleum #7723 Navy (from Home Depot). My trailer paint is faded, but it was a pretty spot-on match!

Just thought I'd share some mods I made to the trailer!