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Every motorist knows how important it is to be prepared on the road. However, different situations happen in life, and the same jack is not always at hand. Well, punctures on the road will not surprise anyone at all. Is it possible to change a wheel without a jack, and how to do it on your own?
How to change a wheel without a jack

In fact, in this situation, there is nothing unusual. You can’t foresee everything, so you have to get out of a difficult situation, and sometimes alone. Most often this happens to the front wheels. If the wheel is flat, but it is not chewed, and the tire is whole, you can try the following method of replacing it with a spare wheel.

Step-by-step instructions for replacing a wheel without a jack


Inflate the wheel with the pump to the maximum possible normal state.
How to change a wheel without a jack

While it keeps pumping for some time, we substitute a few bricks under the axle beam or the pivot arm, and insert a small section of the board into it. It can be used by the way as a locking shoe to block the movement of the wheels. Stands should be stable, because if the car jumps off them, then it will be very difficult to repeat what was started.
How to change a wheel without a jack

We lower the inflated air at the reserve. At the same time, release four nuts on the wheel mounting studs. Useful balloon L-shaped or key-cross.
How to change a wheel without a jack

At the punched wheel we release air, unscrewing the nipple. We carefully monitor that the car does not jump off our brick supports. Now you can completely unscrew the fixing nuts and remove the wheel.
How to change a wheel without a jack

How to change a wheel without a jack

We insert the spare tire in place of the wheel, and fasten it with fastening nuts. Tighten them well with a balloon wrench.
How to change a wheel without a jack

How to change a wheel without a jack

We pump up the pressure in the reserve with the pump.
How to change a wheel without a jack

When the car rises, it will be possible to take out our linings from under it. For them, by the way, wooden blocks of dense wood are suitable.
How to change a wheel without a jack

Good luck to everyone on the road!

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Comments (13)
  1. Guest Roman
    #1 Guest Roman Guests May 10, 2019 16:53
    9
    Cool when there is no jack, no pump, no spare ..)))
    1. Guest Gennady
      #2 Guest Gennady Guests May 12, 2019 5:47 p.m.
      0
      I once had such a case. Around the year 97. He brought up a random traffic policeman and punctured a wheel not far from him. It turned out to be a spare wheel at home. SO HE ME AFTER 15 min BROUGHT THE STOCK! I still remember, I could not believe for a long time. The most interesting thing is that he took my word for it that I’ll bring it tomorrow (and I brought it after all)
    2. retiree
      #3 retiree Guests May 23, 2019 08:05
      1
      great and easy! take bricks with you instead of a jack.
      cleverly said.
      we have bricks everywhere, especially in the field, in the forest and on the highway.
  2. Guest Roman
    #4 Guest Roman Guests May 10, 2019 11:14 p.m.
    6
    It’s better to loosen the bolts first thing, even before the lining
  3. Eustace
    #5 Eustace Guests May 11, 2019 11:12 PM
    6
    You run into a brick with a flat tire. You pump up. Put bricks under the lever. you lower air. You remove a brick from under a wheel. We remove a wheel. You put a spare wheel. You give a little back. You remove the bricks and drove off. And do not lower and pump up the reserve. I think so!
  4. Vyacheslav
    #6 Vyacheslav Guests May 12, 2019 12:02 a.m.
    2
    Are there really drivers who do not have a jack and a pump in the trunk? In my opinion, even blondes will not allow this.
    1. the guest
      #7 the guest Guests May 12, 2019 10:14
      4
      But there are bricks.
  5. Guest Vitaliy
    #8 Guest Vitaliy Guests May 12, 2019 12:12
    4
    And it’s more convenient for me to carry the jack in the trunk. Although the bricks are more universal :)
  6. Big
    #9 Big Guests May 13, 2019 09:23
    4
    We have bricks everywhere on the roadsides ....
  7. Jean
    #10 Jean Guests May 13, 2019 09:47
    4
    Why carry a jack, carry bricks in the trunk floor! stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye
  8. filippovich
    #11 filippovich Guests May 13, 2019 8:22 p.m.
    2
    I took a Muscovite half with me
  9. Chibisov Roma
    #12 Chibisov Roma Guests May 27, 2019 17:01
    0
    Firstly: what kind of fool do you need to drive without a jack. Secondly: it will not work with cuts and tears. Well, and thirdly: do we have all the curbs covered with bricks and boards?
  10. Yuri Vasya Vasya
    #13 Yuri Vasya Vasya Guests July 4, 2019 10:17 AM
    0
    also news to me !! you apparently didn’t live in 80 g

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