Rotated the tires, all 5 of them. How hard can it be.
The winch did seem to want to come down. Fiddled a bit and it came down fine. Spare was low on air…
I also grabbed some wd40 and a bit of oil for the stupid hoist safety.
So drag the air hose out. Let me check all the tires, on both cars, plus spares. Time fiddled away.
Got the jack out, first one off. Let’s get into a rhythm. Nope. The 22mm socket was giving grief because the lugs aren’t pristine enough. Switched to 7/8”. Now we’re rocking. Second tire swapped. Damn socket won’t come off the lugnut. Out comes the dead blow hammer. For every nut on that Wheel. Plus the third one.
Fourth is cake. Time to put the last wheel back into the spare position. How hard can that be…
The hoist won’t lift. Not with a load. Sorta wants to until the slack is taken up. Well at least I’m not stuck with a dangling spare I can’t release. It’s acting like the drive lug is rounded off. I pried the plastic guide tube out of the way and looked. The lug looks fine. Tried again. Still acting like it’s rounded off. It starts to take up, then I can feel it slip.
screw it, pull the hoist out, toss the spare in the cabin for now.
I‘m gonna go out on a limb and assume y’all northern folk are not used to seeing these under bits without a metric crap ton of rust.
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