Tire lift and aligner

[ruxu]

As both my daily driving car and my forest utility vehicle have quite heavy tires - 255/55-18 and 235/60R15 off-road - the twice a year changing from winter spikes tires to summer tires and vice versa requires lifting and aligning the rims onto the bolt pattern.

As I had a 2ton floor jack with a small oil leak I decided to make a tire lift and aligner of it to make the tire changing easier. Here are some pictures of the modification. The whole mod was made of scrap metal parts and some bearings I had laying around.



The third picture of the new/modified parts is missing the bottom support flat bar that can be seen on the second picture.



As I changed the tires on my wife's Ford Focus yesterday I tested the lift even though the tires aren't that heavy on a such small car. It worked as planned and the bolt alignment was very easy to do as you could lift the tire to correct height and rotate the tire.

You could even use a new floor jack for this mod as they cost only 25 Euro.