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someone mentioned that with locker its little harder swapping tires on locked axle cause you cant use the easy way to align the ctis bolt with the wheel about to go on (you just spin the hub in a no locker truck)... saw the below advertised at harbor freight. This might work to make life easier. there is more expensive versions out there. The larger rollers on it should allow you to spin tire on them for aligning lug holes. granted you would probably have to take it to your favorite welder / fabricator to cut it in quarters and splice in more metal to and make the whole thing bigger or just copy the design and make your own. Won't need the jacking part.
UPDATE...... well they apparently already sell such a gizmo for big rig truck tires..... who would have thought it was called a "tire dolley" see post nine down below ( https://www.steelsoldiers.com/showt...cker-in-rear&p=2164354&viewfull=1#post2164354 )
For use... could see putting the thing in front of hub on say a 2'x2'? plywood if needed..... roll the tire about to be installed up onto it. spin tire as needed to align holes.... roll the whole unit left or right etc. to line it up with hub then use two Poles thru two wheel holes fitted over lug bolt to lift and slide tire onto the hub ( as another user suggested in here). ok.... so that last part is not so easy but leverage should help as would a second person.
in below video .... as person jacks up using the "low jack"/pink version, you can see that the tubes the tire sit on do spin. Granted we would NOT be using them as they are designed for and shown in the video but instead just for aligning the wheel to install.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bqRzcW340M
PS... if anyone recalls the size pipe to fit over lug bolts.... yet still fit thru the wheel holes.... please (pardon the pun) pipe in so that information is in this thread also.
UPDATE...... well they apparently already sell such a gizmo for big rig truck tires..... who would have thought it was called a "tire dolley" see post nine down below ( https://www.steelsoldiers.com/showt...cker-in-rear&p=2164354&viewfull=1#post2164354 )
For use... could see putting the thing in front of hub on say a 2'x2'? plywood if needed..... roll the tire about to be installed up onto it. spin tire as needed to align holes.... roll the whole unit left or right etc. to line it up with hub then use two Poles thru two wheel holes fitted over lug bolt to lift and slide tire onto the hub ( as another user suggested in here). ok.... so that last part is not so easy but leverage should help as would a second person.
in below video .... as person jacks up using the "low jack"/pink version, you can see that the tubes the tire sit on do spin. Granted we would NOT be using them as they are designed for and shown in the video but instead just for aligning the wheel to install.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bqRzcW340M
PS... if anyone recalls the size pipe to fit over lug bolts.... yet still fit thru the wheel holes.... please (pardon the pun) pipe in so that information is in this thread also.
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