spare tire hanger
06-08-2005, 08:53 PM
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spare tire hanger
i have a second gen 4r, and i think leik most toyota trucks i have a tire hanger that is a cable, with an ancher at the end.. and you wind it up or down to lower your spare. my anchor broke off... any home made ideas on hwo to fix it? or where did you go to find a new one? i need to get it down fast and there are no junkyard sworth spit around here and i dont want some rusty peice fo crap that is gonen drop my tire on the road if i hit a bump and kill the peopel behind me
06-09-2005, 10:13 AM
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if you've lifted it 4" your spare probably isn't the same size as your tires, no?
why not just remove the spare entirely and eject some unnecessary weight? a little less work for the engine to do and maybe a little boost in gas mileage.
keep a can of fix-a-flat in the rig, just in case.
why not just remove the spare entirely and eject some unnecessary weight? a little less work for the engine to do and maybe a little boost in gas mileage.
keep a can of fix-a-flat in the rig, just in case.
06-09-2005, 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted by sschaefer3
Find a spare tire winch from a 1980's Pickup they use a chain and not a cable. The are much stonger.
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06-09-2005, 06:47 PM
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Originally Posted by mtnfreak
Just be sure you take it off and clean / re-grease it once a year or so. Once the mechanism gets all gunked up, that spare ain't commin' down the regular way.
Rubber rots fast here but steel lasts forever.
06-09-2005, 07:07 PM
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i have one thats jsut sitting in my backyard inside a sealed box, chain style from my 85 pickup... if you want it, PM me and i will owrk on shipping it... it is kinda heavy though.....
06-10-2005, 08:47 AM
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Originally Posted by sandcrawler
"i have 32s and a brand new 31 inch spare"
well, you might as well sell the spare; what good is it with 32s all around?
well, you might as well sell the spare; what good is it with 32s all around?
LOL I hope that was tongue-in-cheek.. 1" difference makes no real difference.
I carried the stock spare (225R75/15) on my 85 and ran 33s for 15 years. I only needed it a couple of times but it got me home just fine. Once I did have to swap it to the front when I tore out a sidewall on a rear tire. A little extra work that day but way better than having a 33 in the back of the 4Runner taking up space all those years.
06-15-2005, 11:51 AM
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Originally Posted by justpassinbye
iv put hundreds of miles on a 31" spare with 32"s all the way around.. there NOOO problems..
if you have any kind of lsd or locker there will br problems.....
if its open its doable, however its best to carry around the proper tire size outside diameter....
06-15-2005, 02:13 PM
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Originally Posted by jimabena74
if you have any kind of lsd or locker there will br problems.....
if its open its doable, however its best to carry around the proper tire size outside diameter....
if its open its doable, however its best to carry around the proper tire size outside diameter....
Very true, as I said, once I had to change it to the front when I tore out a rear tire (double the work) but once in 15 years was fine with me. For a difference of 31" to 32" I wouldn't have bothered, but for 28" to 33" I didn't think the rear posi would've liked it.
On my '90 I've determined that by rerouting my exhaust pipe and reversing the shackle bolts and moving the lift winch a couple of inches I can get a 35 under there, so that's what I'm going to do. One of these days...
06-16-2005, 09:28 AM
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"I only needed it a couple of times but it got me home just fine."
that's all i meant; enough to get you home, but you'd want to go back to the same size all-around.
that's all i meant; enough to get you home, but you'd want to go back to the same size all-around.
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