Can't get it down?

Jamescanuck · Mar 4, 2024

2014 1500 The cable cranks down on my spare but the tire and cross bar stay up, pounded pried , tried a rope to pull the cable tube from all angles, let air out, left cable down three inches drove over evry rough road near me. Any one out there got any ideas?

Curmudgeon · Mar 4, 2024

I'm afraid I don't have a solution and you've probably tried everything I would do.
I've never needed the spare in my 2014 but I've seen other posts like this. It makes me want to go out and check mine under nicer conditions, nicer than say at the side of a busy highway, in the rain, or whatever.

And to camp-on to your question, once the spare is down how should we treat the mechanism to ensure it works when needed in the future?

tron67j · Mar 4, 2024

Gotta just keep spraying penetration oil up in there. Alternative is to cut it out, but risky with gas tank there. Maybe find a way to attach a cable to the tire with a pulley out to the side so you are pulling down toward the ground. Maybe get it up in the lift.

crash68 · Mar 4, 2024

Jamescanuck said:
left cable down three inches drove over evry rough road near me. Any one out there got any ideas?

To make sure I'm understanding this, the cable is dropping down a couple of inches but the tire is not?
It might be worth taking a lighted borescope to see if there's something hooked on or holding the tire in place.
If you had the OEM lock, that just prevents accessing the winch to lowering the tire but your cable is lowering so the OEM lock isn't there.

Papa Red · Mar 5, 2024

Welcome to the forum.

Red

chri5k · Mar 5, 2024

I thought this was going to be about a little blue pill problem. NVM.

Harley Harrold · Mar 7, 2024

GTyankee · Mar 7, 2024

If the cable is hanging
penetrating fluid, a block of wood & a metal bar

Jamescanuck · Mar 20, 2024

crash68 said:
To make sure I'm understanding this, the cable is dropping down a couple of inches but the tire is not?
It might be worth taking a lighted borescope to see if there's something hooked on or holding the tire in place.
If you had the OEM lock, that just prevents accessing the winch to lowering the tire but your cable is lowering so the OEM lock isn't there.

tried the scope can not see anything that could be holding it going to take it to a tire guy says he will lift see if he can convince it. thks

Docwagon1776 · Mar 21, 2024

I hear if you can't get it down after 4 hours you need to call a doctor.

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