Rear camera install in hub of spare wheel

[Timmy]

Hello all,

Just thought I'd share in case it gives anyone else some ideas...

I just installed a rear backup camera in the hub of my rear spare tire. I had seen installs down low in the bumper, and pics of things like AEV's camera mount for the center parking light. I didn't care for either option as one was too low for my liking, and the other too high. Since I run XD Bully wheels, which have a plastic center hub, I realized I could just drill a hole in the spare tire hub and mount the camera there. If I need the spare tire, I just don't use the "spare" hub, I use the one already on the wheel with the flat tire that I'm replacing.

Anyway... I bought a Nav TV which allowed me to hookup two or three cameras. Did a bunch of research and settled on some 600TVL camera's with a 1/3" sony CCD camera in them, as I wanted a little higher quality than normal. Install was a snap once I figured out how to install the NavTV, and that the "security lockout" of the radio goes away once you start the vehicle (I thought I was stopped by the anti-theft feature of the radio when the NavTV was installed when by dumb luck, I decided to start the Jeep and all of the sudden the radio functioned as normal after the NavTV was put in place.)

Anyway, here's some pics. I can elaborate more if someone is interested. I'm only showing the pics for the camera install here as most of the NavTV install is documented elsewhere on the InternetWeb.

Parts:

1) NavTV AllGIG_XG-HS
2) NavTV AV Harness
3) Cameras of your choosing (next time, I'll go with YanTech cameras as you can enable mirror mode if you want for a front camera http://www.yantechusa.com/cubecart/i...d&productId=12)
4) Various cables as needed from Radio Shack. In my case, I needed a BNC to RCA adapter, and a 25 foot RCA cable to run from the spare tire area up to the radio.

Pics:

I had to enlarge the hole in the tire mount slightly as I wanted to put the hub from the back of the tire mount forward so that I could take the spare tire off without the center hub "falling" out.
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Pic of test fitting of center hub
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Marked location of how far I wanted the hub to stick out (I didn't stick it out as far as what it sticks out when on the tire as I wanted to be able to get the tire off easily with the hub staying there.)
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Painted my "enlarging" of the hole slightly to make sure it doesn't rust out long term
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Drill 1 1/4" hole in the center of the hub.
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(urgh, only 5 pics can be uploaded per post!!! I'll post a second message.)