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Subject:Re: Putting on tires: three hands
From:OlRivrRat
Date:Tue, 28 Aug 2012 16:22:27 -0600

This really works ~ I've been using that method for 33yrs ~ once you
get the wheel up

on hub you just have to turn the wheel & the hub & one set of holes
soon line up & you pop in

a bolt. I suppose there could be some wheels with bigger center holes
that might not work &

I only have had to do it on a 2WD so I don't know if it works on a Sync.

                                                        ORR ~ DeanB

On 28 Aug , 2012, at 11:28 AM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:

> You must have a smaller center hole in your rims than I. Here, when
> the
> rim is hanging from the hub, all the holes in the rim sit below their
> corresponding holes in the wheel.
>
> --
> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
> Bend, Ore.
>
> On 08/28/2012 09:27 AM, Edward Maglott wrote:
>> I stick the wheel on so it's center opening is on the hub, then
>> rotate it
>> and the hub until a wheel hole lines up with a hub hole on the
>> right side.
>> (I'm right handed.)  Then I just hold wheel with one hand, you
>> don't have
>> to hold it up, the hub is carrying the weight.  Once you get that
>> one bolt
>> in, rotate wheel so that hole is at the top.  Then all the other
>> holes are
>> pretty much lined up.  It's pretty easy.
>>
>> Edward