Spare Tire Carrier Lock

[tucsonjwt]

What are you guys using for locking the standard spare tire carrier? I previously had a long shackle padlock but can't find it now. The padlocks I see at the local stores seem to be too narrow to accommodate the thickness of the carrier and still catch the hole in the wing of the nut on the bottom. I ran my old lock up vertically through the hole in the nut and into the hole in the carrier support - the key of the padlock was on top of the carrier - that was the only way I could get it to work. The few wider shackle padlocks I have seen are too short to make it past the carrier bar.