SkiFreak
Crazy Person
I must admit that I am not overly surprised by your comments Yves, having worked in the US/Canada for nearly ten years, I hear where you are coming from. Gotta love lawyers!
Yes, my truck came with a spare wheel/tyre, a small bottle jack and the tools required to remove a wheel (along with a small tool roll that has some other hand tools). This is pretty standard here.
As mentioned, the mounting rails for the tyre winch are riveted to the chassis and it is located between the diff and the end of the chassis rails. The winder rod for the chain winch goes in through the side of the chassis rail. I would be surprised if that hole is not on your chassis rails. I cannot take a picture of mine to show you, as my custom rear bar mounts cover that hole now. The hole is quite distinctive, as it is not a plain round hole, it has cutouts on either side (like little ears) for the drive pin on the winder rod.
Without some modification, the OEM tyre winch would not have been viable on my truck because of the lift attained by the SWC and coil conversions. I would have needed to replace the chain for a longer one if I wanted the tyre to reach the ground when it was wound down. From memory, Gait did this on his truck, but had some fun locating some suitable chain that had the correct link spacing. Actually, I think that the chain he got had to be "tweaked" to get the correct spacing.
The actual chain winch is a Fuso spare part. I know that Eathcruiser used to have one for each spare that was mounted on the back of their vehicles. Don't know if they still use that method for lowering the tyre, but if anyone over your side of the planet was looking for one of these devices then that may be an avenue of enquiry.
Yes, my truck came with a spare wheel/tyre, a small bottle jack and the tools required to remove a wheel (along with a small tool roll that has some other hand tools). This is pretty standard here.
As mentioned, the mounting rails for the tyre winch are riveted to the chassis and it is located between the diff and the end of the chassis rails. The winder rod for the chain winch goes in through the side of the chassis rail. I would be surprised if that hole is not on your chassis rails. I cannot take a picture of mine to show you, as my custom rear bar mounts cover that hole now. The hole is quite distinctive, as it is not a plain round hole, it has cutouts on either side (like little ears) for the drive pin on the winder rod.
Without some modification, the OEM tyre winch would not have been viable on my truck because of the lift attained by the SWC and coil conversions. I would have needed to replace the chain for a longer one if I wanted the tyre to reach the ground when it was wound down. From memory, Gait did this on his truck, but had some fun locating some suitable chain that had the correct link spacing. Actually, I think that the chain he got had to be "tweaked" to get the correct spacing.
The actual chain winch is a Fuso spare part. I know that Eathcruiser used to have one for each spare that was mounted on the back of their vehicles. Don't know if they still use that method for lowering the tyre, but if anyone over your side of the planet was looking for one of these devices then that may be an avenue of enquiry.
