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Here's some pictures of a gadget I made to help handle wheels. The ATV lift came from Harbor Freight and the steel rollers from Northern Tool. Maybe 100 bux in the whole thing. Rolls on it's own wheels, lifts and rotates the tire.
Slide it under the tire & give a couple of pumps.
Pull it away and the wheel is off. Roll it back under to reinstall the wheel. The rollers allow the wheel to rotate in place to align the studs.
Easy on & off, no more humping big a$$ tires around. Works great on my truck too.
Roller,
Do you have PN from Northern Tool for the rollers?
McMaster Carr has a huge assortment of conveyor rollers. The hex axle version is heavier duty than the round axle but either will work. One end is spring loaded so they snap into the brackets. They come next day for standard shipping, at least here in the mid Atlantic.
We make the parts here in Poway Ca If you bring a C5 by we can check.
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Since I live on the Gulf Coast that’s a little out of the way. Maybe someone else will come by. Or you could send me one and I’d be happy to test it out!
Here is my V2 roller platform to use with a motorcycle jack, rolling or stationary... might also work with an ATV jack. Basically the same design as the PVC one in my other thread but lighter, more attractive and with real rollers. I used 12" conveyor rollers with hex axles with matching brackets from McMaster Carr and a piece of aluminum diamond plate cut to 12" x 17" backed by a similar size piece of 1/4" plywood to add some stiffness since the edges will hang over the ends of the jack platform.
Here is my V2 roller platform to use with a motorcycle jack, rolling or stationary... might also work with an ATV jack. Basically the same design as the PVC one in my other thread but lighter, more attractive and with real rollers. I used 12" conveyor rollers with hex axles with matching brackets from McMaster Carr and a piece of aluminum diamond plate cut to 12" x 17" backed by a similar size piece of 1/4" plywood to add some stiffness since the edges will hang over the ends of the jack platform.
Nice work! What did you use to cut the diamond plate? Carbide blade? Steel blade? Shear? Never have worked with it, curious how you did it.
Thanks! I just used my Makita 4 1/2" 18V cordless grinder with a cutoff wheel. Since the plate came 12" x 24" from Lowes I needed only one simple cut to take 7" off so I just drew a sharpie line and freehanded it, then de-burred and smoothed the edge with a hand file. This was aluminum so was easier to work than if it were steel. A circular saw with a cutoff wheel might also work.
You could probably use thicker steel diamond plate and do away with the plywood layer, but that would need "more power" than I have here to cut. I bet a machine shop could easily make a piece for not too much $$.
Originally Posted by wjnjr
Nice work! What did you use to cut the diamond plate? Carbide blade? Steel blade? Shear? Never have worked with it, curious how you did it.
I have to revive this thread one more time. Using my latest roller tray with my car on the high position of a QuickJack with my setup with a dolly and motorcycle jack resulted in the wheel being too high, even with the jack fully retracted. There are lots of things in play here... roller diameter, space between the rollers, height of the brackets, collapsed height of the jack, etc. I could get the rear wheel on the car but then not back the jack off far enough to easily get the roller setup out after retracting the jack all one or 2 turns it took to get there in the first place. Too much contact with the tires, still. The problem was my home made dolly held the jack about 4" off the ground. So I made a new low profile dolly with recessed ball transfers that lowers the jack to 1" off the floor which gives me 3 more inches of clearance. If anyone runs into this issue these parts are available on Amazon and other online hardware sites.
Pictures of the rig with original higher dolly and PVC roller tray are here if you didn't see them. New setup is essentially the same with lower dolly and metal rollers. https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...tion-lift.html
I am going to get into my Tacoma's rear drum brakes one of these days and I'll post up a pic of the new setup in action. It'll be interesting to see if the geometry works out for the different vehicle. I did the math for the Vette wheels but didn't check it for the Tacoma. But it should work.
I will be flushing fluid and hopefully just doing an adjustment. But I am not enthusiastic... I HATE working on drum brakes.
Originally Posted by wjnjr
More nice work. Let's see pictures of the whole rig in action.
Rollers
What did you use to cut the diamond plate? Carbide blade? Steel blade? Shear? Never have worked with it, curious how you did it.
