BearKiller

I was under the wife's truck and noticed that it was blessed with the old antique style spare hanger; the kind that gets all rusted and requires a floor-jack and six men to get it back under there.

Has anyone converted theirs to the later model "winch" type hanger, the kind that lets down a little cable/thingie that you hook into the wheel, and then, crank it up into place, without once laying on your back, straining your guts out??

Thanks.

TJE

I hear ya man. The old style is a killer. Hopefully someone will have a good answer. Later, Tony

woodrat

I think next time I am in a wrecking yard I am going to get one of those winch ones from a Toyota truck or something and make it fit. I hate dealing with the spare hanger.

loch

the winch style mounts to cross piece, find a winch style and add a cross piece. I did it in a chevy for a friend, but id stay away from the little trucks, i dont know if they could hold the tire, bit differance in weight.

Boatnik

What is a spare tire?

wannadiesel

There's one on each end of your rear axle.

loch

LOL i dont have one either, the winch sounds cool though.

whereswaldo250

Would one from a newer style dodge work, like a 94-98 maybe???

Sootblower

Join a gym and don't stop bench pressing until you can do 150 lbs with ONE arm.

DBF

While sitting in wet gravel.

Regards, DBF

Jim Lane

Last month when I got all new tires, I had them switch the best rolling tire for the spare, they took it down and when they went to put it back up they could not figure out how to get it back in.
Within 10 minuets something had completely changed under the truck and it did not fit no matter what we did. Well we got it back up there somehow and when they cranked up the nut it got almost to the top and the threads stripped out and down it came.
So now it has a nut on it.
Luckily I have only had to use a spare only once in all of the time I have had a truck.
A winch would be nice but it would be easier for someone to steal it though.
This way if they did try at least there is a good chance it will fall on them and pin them till I got there in the morning.
Jim

wannadiesel

I'd like to see a surveillance video of that!

DBF

If I recall correctly, the stupid design is that the LT235/85x16 only fits well when the valve stem is pointing up. Of course, then you can't get at it to check pressure. Great design.

I hadda fight that tire back into place by myself without a jack while sitting in gravel up in the Yukon. Halfway thru, I was ready to turn the truck upside-down & throw the spare into place. But I finally won.

Regards, DBF

BearKiller

Being in the tire shop business, all my life, I can well remember the first import pick-up that came in the shop with one of those winch-type spare hangers; it was then that I decided that the Japs just might be a smidgeon smarter than the Americans.

Many is the lazy un-caring customer that has came in for a tire repair, with the flat tire laying loose in the back, and expect us to fight with that rusted heavy back-breaking mess, putting their spare back under their truck.

I never could understand the wisdom of placing the wheel in such a location to make checking the air-pressure in the spare impossible.

Many is the time we have resorted to the torch, just to get the spare down.

Boatnik

That is kinda what I figured. This way the wear stays the same and I can keep a closser watch on pressure.

HOWEVER, I helped my son change a flat on his 4Runner last week and marveled at the simplicity of the winch. My next trip to the "U wrench it" salvedge yard might make me eat my words.