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27th May 2024, 10:25 | #1 |
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How to replace a wheel
I freely acknowledge this will probably be the silliest post on the entire Forum, but it has taken me 70 years to find the best way to replace a wheel, so have a read, have a scoff if you will - yes I know you will - but hey give it a try.
No doubt all of you have equipped yourself with a screw in peg (arrow B) which does help, but you still have to juggle with lining up the bolt hole with the end of the peg, which when you're as ancient as me nursing a tender back doesn't get any easier. So my cunning plan is to insert a forefinger - others should be available (arrow A) - so when you lift the wheel you can feel when you're lined up with the end of the peg, so slide in. And breathe out. (Now you can have a laugh).
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27th May 2024, 10:48 | #2 |
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So what do you say when having used your finger to line up with the hole but then drop the wheel because it is so heavy, but still with your finger engaged?
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27th May 2024, 10:53 | #3 |
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I still don’t have an alignment peg.
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A word of caution Dave, please do not poke a finger, or any other body part, into a wheel. I'd rather not go into exactly why, just don't. A suitable wooden dowel will serve as a much better and safer 'tool' than a pinky.
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What body part did you have in mind, specifically?
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27th May 2024, 12:38 | #6 |
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I'd rather not go into, er, intimate, details. Suffice it to say such a catastrophe is, at best, unsightly.
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About fifty years ago, I had an Austin Mini Cooper with a wood rimmed steering wheel I'd bought through Exchange & Mart.. That wheel, coincidentally, put me into Bow Street Magistrate's Court as a prosecution witness in a large burglary case - - but I digress. I was driving the Cooper home from work with my mate in the passenger seat . On the way, I stopped at a shop for something and when I returned to the car, my mate had his middle finger stuck through one of the holes in the steering wheel spoke! Try as he might, it was stuck fast. Luckily, I always carried a tool box in the boot, so half an hour later, we'd managed to get the wheel off the splines so he could get out of the car, steering wheel still firmly attached to him. Luckily, hed could hold the wheel as if he was carrying it, so he didn't look as stupid as he felt as we walked into a nearby garage. Using hot and cold water and lots of Swarfega, the finger was finally free. As they say, it could have been worse!
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Another couple of ideas for you, maybe a plant pot caddy which the wheel will sit in so you can move it about for alignment and height. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/145670409169 Or there is this set which could help. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/404276783991
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Sealey AK7500. Best thing that I have bought in years. Brake on, in gear or have someone hold the brake to stop the hub spinning for best results but I have managed with device at the top and a careful slide. Video on YouTube if you search for AK 7500
https://youtu.be/TnA4JeW4Ges?feature=shared Sent from my SM-A127F using Tapatalk
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