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D Vautier
4/2024
About a year ago my son
replaced the spare tire storage device on his Dodge Dakota.
The truck however, was not strong enough to pull his boat so he sold it and got a
heftier 2005 Chevrolet Silverado. Again he was faced with a
similar
impossible mechanism used to store and retrieve the spare tire, a device so difficult, confusing
and evil that it is impossible to operate with one person, even under the best of
conditions.
My theory is that the designers of this folly of a device were the very same idiot retard Dodge engineers who designed the spare tire storage mechanism for Dodge trucks. It appears that the entire Dodge crew was summarily fired from the company for their misadventures and incompetence and immediately hired by Chevrolet where they were again put to work and allowed to inflict their destructive and evil designs upon Chevrolet truck owners.
The mechanism itself requires at least two people to operate, one person having a very skinny and long arm to release the safety catch, the other to operate the cable. The cable is controlled by a series of assembled rods which raise and lower the tire. Then at a certain point an assistant is allowed just enough room to grope around under the tire finding the latch and releasing it. This is a hypothetical scenario because we were never able to actually do it. Using the experience of our last encounter with the evil spare storage device, we wound up just cutting the horrible thing out with a grinder.
I noticed that the aftermarket spare tire replacement hoist (part # 15122525) comes without the safety catch which means that the thing may actually work.
Val then welded three 5/8-11 allthread shafts to a plate, spacing them to fit the tire lugs. He removed the evil tire mount and welded the plate into that location. We then mounted the spare tire, which now conveniently requires just one person to remove.
Now his truck has an accessible spare tire, no thanks to Chevrolet engineering.
