Ever use a car dolly to help mount wheels?

[IcemanSTX]

? my back isn't what it used to be and I found this helps a lot for my 83lbs wheel setup and I don't have to slam my wheels against my brakes trying to line up the lugs.

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[D Fresh]

Sit on the ground with you legs splayed out around the tire. Lift tire onto knees, use knees to lift and place tire with hands steadying at the top. Works well for me now. I'll save the dolly for my next decade.

 

[Fawnbuster]

Work smarter not harder!

A week after my 1st surgery 10lb lifting limit I wanted to install my hubcentric rings so I used my bottle jack to lift the truck at the frame and then put my rolling floor jack under the lower control arm area right under the shock and then raised each tire just high enough that the tire would rotate then I could slide the wheel off , ring on and wheel back on, no lifting!

 

[Joeiconic]

I’ve found that the easiest way to move, lift and install wheels and tires is to let a tire shop do it. ?

 

[DukeCanBuildit]

I think I read somewhere on here that most of the tailgate damper owners need a dolly, a swamper, and an apprentice to lift their tires onto the hub for them. Might be a rumour but it’s likely true.

 

[Radioman]

? my back isn't what it used to be and I found this helps a lot for my 83lbs wheel setup and I don't have to slam my wheels against my brakes trying to line up the lugs.

My son gave me a car dolly for the exact same reason. My only problem is the Jeep tires are wider than the dolly so it is hard to rotate. I try to ensure one of the lugs is straight up and one of the tire holes is straight up and then the tire just slides on. The Jeep wheels and tires are really heavy and the spare tire is troublesome.
Before using the dolly, I would use the floor jack to lower the vehicle to the correct height to slide the wheel on the lugs.

 

[Radioman]

Sit on the ground with you legs splayed out around the tire. Lift tire onto knees, use knees to lift and place tire with hands steadying at the top. Works well for me now. I'll save the dolly for my next decade.

Even when I was younger and sprier, I had trouble using this method. I would just bite the bullet and lift the wheel onto the lugs. After rotating all the tires, I would be looking for over-the-counter pain meds.

 

[Radioman]

I think I read somewhere on here that most of the tailgate damper owners need a dolly, a swamper, and an apprentice to lift their tires onto the hub for them. Might be a rumour but it’s likely true.

I'm all for that... Will you hire (and pay) them for me?

 

[JesseS]

That's too much work, there is an easy way we used to mount 2.5 & 5 ton truck tires in the Army. Just lay a long breaker bar on the ground in line with and perpendicular to the center of the wheel hub, roll the tire and wheel up onto the bar as close to the hub as possible, until centered on the hub, then just grab the end of the bar and lift the wheel up with the bar holding it with the other hand and it will slide right on the hub. I use this method to re-mount my 19.5" 100lb RV tires, and I am 73. What was that Atlas said about a lever and a fulcrum?
OH!! and I have a tailgate damper, dampner. tailgate slower downer thingies

You can always get one of these.

 

[Stangman570]

Heck yeah, what ever works to save your back. Well worth it at the end of the day to prevent that injury.

 

[Doc]

I have a little Dolly that works at the tire shop …

 

[Doc]

That's too much work, there is an easy way we used to mount 2.5 & 5 ton truck tires in the Army. Just lay a long breaker bar on the ground in line with and perpendicular to the center of the wheel hub, roll the tire and wheel up onto the bar as close to the hub as possible, until centered on the hub, then just grab the end of the bar and lift the wheel up with the bar holding it with the other hand and it will slide right on the hub. I use this method to re-mount my 19.5" 100lb RV tires, and I am 73. What was that Atlas said about a lever and a fulcrum?
OH!! and I have a tailgate damper, dampner. tailgate slower downer thingies

Ha, I did the same on C-130’s ! we used 2 bars…(main gear jack handles)

 

[D Fresh]

Even when I was younger and sprier, I had trouble using this method. I would just bite the bullet and lift the wheel onto the lugs. After rotating all the tires, I would be looking for over-the-counter pain meds.

I do it this way specifically to save my back. Back when I was a young bull I'd huck 'em up like it was nothing. But I've bulged a couple of discs and I don't want to see what happens to the back next time.

That's too much work, there is an easy way we used to mount 2.5 & 5 ton truck tires in the Army. Just lay a long breaker bar on the ground in line with and perpendicular to the center of the wheel hub, roll the tire and wheel up onto the bar as close to the hub as possible, until centered on the hub, then just grab the end of the bar and lift the wheel up with the bar holding it with the other hand and it will slide right on the hub. I use this method to re-mount my 19.5" 100lb RV tires, and I am 73. What was that Atlas said about a lever and a fulcrum?
OH!! and I have a tailgate damper, dampner. tailgate slower downer thingies

We did the same back when I worked on these things...

Seems like it it would be much harder with a wheel vs a rim though, due to the lugs. I'll have to give it try if I have a big enough "lever" laying around.

 

[IcemanSTX]

I think I read somewhere on here that most of the tailgate damper owners need a dolly, a swamper, and an apprentice to lift their tires onto the hub for them. Might be a rumour but it’s likely true.

Maybe I should get a damper too, maybe for my doors as well ?

 

[IcemanSTX]

My son gave me a car dolly for the exact same reason. My only problem is the Jeep tires are wider than the dolly so it is hard to rotate. I try to ensure one of the lugs is straight up and one of the tire holes is straight up and then the tire just slides on. The Jeep wheels and tires are really heavy and the spare tire is troublesome.
Before using the dolly, I would use the floor jack to lower the vehicle to the correct height to slide the wheel on the lugs.

Nice! Yah I already had the dolly, so I figured why not try. Definitely gonna keep using it since it is way faster for me when rotating tires and all.

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