Spare Wheel Nightmare

[galaxy_1.9TD_Zetec]

Hiya,

 

Wondering if anyone has had a problem like this with the hoist for the spare wheel. Fortunatley I was parking at home when I noticed a slow puncture, how easy I thought to remove the spare wheel and slap it in place. The hoist dropped the wheel by about 1 inch then stopped. Using wheel brace spanner, I was loosening the 19mm nut on the floor just inside of the tailgate but the spare wheel would not drop.

Eventually got the spare wheel removed from the car with the hoist unit still attached (by removing 2 x 13mm bolts) and managed to disingage the wheel from the broken hoist.

 

Has anyone has experience to repair the hoists ?

 

I had to drill out 6 stainless steel rivets to get access to the unit to find that the wire had become detached from the spool. Put it all back together, used 6mm nuts and bolts instead of the rivets (Thought that my 6mm aluminium pop rivets were too weak to hold the weight of the spare wheel ??).

 

Not put the unit back into the vehicle yet, but is seems to be operational now.

 

Let me know if anyone else had problems - well worth carrying a 13mm socket and long extension for a ratchet (to get through the "spokes" of the wheel) to remove the whole assy if you get stuck away from home. Take a carpet to lie on and a torch too !

 

Tara for the noo,

 

Graeme

[Dave-G]

This is one of many threads I found by typing "spare wheel " into the search feature for you :angry:

 

I didna realise jocks were tight on typing too :blink:

 

 

 

 

http://www.fordgalaxy.org.uk/ford/index.ph...&hl=spare+wheel

[galaxy_1.9TD_Zetec]

Thanks Dave-G. ;)

 

Thanks too for the kind comment concerning my nationality ! :ph34r:

[oafcowl]

wouldn't it hurt if you lay on the torch?