Getting ready to cut it and it's not rusty. Could of made another huge mistake in so this video is priceless and to the point we love that a genus. Pissed enough to post this little silly reality we deal with. I love the videos so short and sweet and right to the point. We could spend hours but with this guy seconds I love that just the way I do it
THANK YOU !!!!!!!!! awesome video you wont believe what I have been through and still the tire didn't come down even the idiot from triple A couldnt do anything . Now I can repair mine and get the other spare tire out of the truck and where it need to be . Again thank you very much !!!!
Mount them face up with valve stem UP. It protects the valve stem from damage and also protects the face of the spare if you have a alloy spare. 80 percent of people mount them face/stem up and so does OEM. Its not that important to check the air pressure of the spare they never loose all the air since no weight on them. And you want to once in a awhile check that the mechanism works and is not frozen. When you do that you can check the air pressure if you like.
Thanks you answered a lot of my questions and showed me some things I wasn't aware of. 👍 However when cranking it all the way up to get it tight and secure mine did a slip/ skipping as if not to over tighten it... Do you know if this is normal?
The reason the hooks move out is because when you crack the tire up that safety tube goes into a round hole which pushes on the sides of it and forces the hooks out so the tire is hanging by the latch hooks and not the cable at all. The cable has zero weight on it in locked position its not even needed to hold the tire up. when that mechanism is lowered it falls out of the metal tube the hole is no longer compressing the latch spring and it wants to retract in the release position (hook slide in and no longer supporting the tire, at some point the full weight is on the cable. Hard to visualize without a video showing it. If its hanging with all weight on the latch why would the latch release at all when cranking the cable down? After looking at this video it does appear that the tire is hanging by just the cable along and the latch is in unlock state but if the tire weight is sudden gone (if the bottom of cable broke) the springs in the latch would pop out before the tire drops and the hooks safe it from rolling down the highway. That being the case not sure why the latch has that side piece sticking out to force the hooks out. And not sure why they get stuck in lock position when it should freeze up in the unlock position if anything. Would need to see how it fits in the tube to know for sure I suppose. It seems to cause more problems for people than it fixes.
This is the only video I have found that tells the direction the tire is supposed to point and why, very important !!
THANK YOU!!! only person to show how it works!
Getting ready to cut it and it's not rusty. Could of made another huge mistake in so this video is priceless and to the point we love that a genus. Pissed enough to post this little silly reality we deal with. I love the videos so short and sweet and right to the point. We could spend hours but with this guy seconds I love that just the way I do it
Thanks for the great advise. I have a Toyota Highlander and couldn’t find any advise on this issue but yours solved the issue. Thanks July 2023
Thanks man so easy but really stuck on the highway. We truly should read our car manuals. But jeeze. Thank you.
THANK YOU !!!!!!!!! awesome video you wont believe what I have been through and still the tire didn't come down even the idiot from triple A couldnt do anything . Now I can repair mine and get the other spare tire out of the truck and where it need to be . Again thank you very much !!!!
I wish I could like this a million times you're a Freakin HERO.
Thanks for the vid very helpful finally got mine unstuck I'm putting it back the "improper" way so it doesnt happen again ;)
Mount them face up with valve stem UP. It protects the valve stem from damage and also protects the face of the spare if you have a alloy spare. 80 percent of people mount them face/stem up and so does OEM. Its not that important to check the air pressure of the spare they never loose all the air since no weight on them. And you want to once in a awhile check that the mechanism works and is not frozen. When you do that you can check the air pressure if you like.
Thanks you answered a lot of my questions and showed me some things I wasn't aware of. 👍 However when cranking it all the way up to get it tight and secure mine did a slip/ skipping as if not to over tighten it... Do you know if this is normal?
Where did you get the new piece??? They old owner cut off the cable on my tb
The reason the hooks move out is because when you crack the tire up that safety tube goes into a round hole which pushes on the sides of it and forces the hooks out so the tire is hanging by the latch hooks and not the cable at all. The cable has zero weight on it in locked position its not even needed to hold the tire up. when that mechanism is lowered it falls out of the metal tube the hole is no longer compressing the latch spring and it wants to retract in the release position (hook slide in and no longer supporting the tire, at some point the full weight is on the cable.
Hard to visualize without a video showing it. If its hanging with all weight on the latch why would the latch release at all when cranking the cable down? After looking at this video it does appear that the tire is hanging by just the cable along and the latch is in unlock state but if the tire weight is sudden gone (if the bottom of cable broke) the springs in the latch would pop out before the tire drops and the hooks safe it from rolling down the highway.
That being the case not sure why the latch has that side piece sticking out to force the hooks out. And not sure why they get stuck in lock position when it should freeze up in the unlock position if anything. Would need to see how it fits in the tube to know for sure I suppose. It seems to cause more problems for people than it fixes.
Sorry I don’t understand what you’re talking about how do you get it off?