Spare tire STUCK! 1999-2006 Chevy/GMC - How to release the safety latch 🧰🧰🧰
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2024
- Here's how to release the spare tire in a 2004 silverado 1500. There is a safety latch you need to release manually!
You will need a rachet strap and a screwdriver.
I'm not 100% sure, but this likely applies to the Silverado, Avalanche, Tahoe, Suburban, Yukon, and Sierra from the 1999 to 2005 timeframe.
Thanks!
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Well, it took me 5 or 6 videos of idiots not explaining things and THANKFULLY I found this one that actually EXPLAINS what is happening and how to manipulate it. THANK YOU. I just hope mine works, because mine doesn't lower AT ALL. Only the spring comes down a bit. Every thing else is totally jammed up solid.
That’s called being grateful everybody
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Thanks for the how to!
Saved us time and more headache than needed, probably a good idea to lubricate the hinged safety lever
Pennsylvania sees a good bit of salt and could possibly freeze it up
Thank you so much for explaining this idiotic invention. Glad I don't have to do this at night on the side of the highway. I'll do it in my driveway and strap the spare behind the back seat. Plenty of room there. Great job Dan!
Thanks! Yes this would not be fun on the side of the road.
Dude, I thank God you made this video! We were stuck a ways from home at night, and the dang tire was stuck. Freaking safety junk. Saw this, worked that spare around and released the catch. Saved us a night in a seedy hotel!
Just used this video and it worked. Thank you so much for posting it.
Deserve a million likes only video that show all steps
Thanks man. Been wrestling with this thing for 2 days
Thanks Dan! I couldn't figure out why the spare in my 04 Tahoe would only drop a couple of inches and just hang there loosely even though the cable would come all the way down. So now I know what to do to fix it!
This video came in handy for me today! What a life saver!
I got mine apart and took the whole thing out and replaced it with a home made system that will release from below or by taking off the license plate and pulling a pin. You do need to jack on the rim to take the pressure off to be able to pull the "pin".
On some models you can access this device by taking the license plate off and reach through the center of the bumper 🎉🎉🎉🎉
clear as day. best explanation ive seen. thanks brodi
Thanks, worked like a charm best video out there, worked on my 2004 Sierra 2500 HD.
Thanks. Clear and easy to understand about the latch👍
Thanks for the video, it helped me in the struggle😅
OMG I'm so glad you posted this I'm wondering if this has to be done every time and I'm sure it does A huge thank you for this video
Clear, easy to understand, thank you!!
Handy but I haven't made it to this point. Ours has a keyed lock in the hole on the bumper that is stuck and won't open. Trying to figure out how to remove it
I have a key hole on my 01 Silverado and I don’t know how to insert the bars in the back
Thank you for doing this video. Luckily my tire is already off so it should be easier in my case
If you read the owners manual, it shows you how to release the latch. You raise the jack 6 to 8 inches with those weird looking wheel chocks on end and jack it up against the spring until it doesn't go anymore, then crank it with the rods to lower the tire until it moves past the safety latch, remove the jack and lower the tire to the ground. That whole mechanism was supposed to be maintained with lubricant twice a year. I know, nobody has ever lubed that mechanism, me included.
Thanks Dan! Saved our butts
I literally cannot believe this. All this to get a spare tire down???? I'd have never bought this truck if I had known. Fucking unbelievable. Of course there's nothing about it in the owners manual. God help the people who have to deal with this on a busy freeway and don't have a tool to get to the shitty little gizmo 🤬
I drive a 2013 Denali and recently took it in for service and a brake job. This is Minnesota and I knew my spare was rusted in and unusable. I am too old to do this kind of work; so I had the dealer drop it and put it the rear. It cost $90 but now I can have AAA change it. He said it was hard to do. Do it and pay.
Superb informative video. 👍
For those of you not covered by these repetitive videos. The ones that are stuck before the safety mechanism. Shake the tire back and forth that lines up with the latch. There is a bur on the metal that is causing it to hang. Flatten it with a hammer or sandpaper once you have it out.
I just cut the hook off.
I just use a ratchet strap as the safety.
Good to know. I guess mine was never properly engaged. Just purchase a truck so I want to make sure everything is on point. I'm missing and replacing components
Awesome. Thanks!
You saved my bacon, I would have got the angle grinder out to destroy everything in my path!
Or just do as the manual says and use the jack on that knob/ball at the end of the cable. It releases the hook mechanism. You then have to go back and forth with the tool to lower the jack then lower he cable then back to the tire then back to the cable etc untill it's down. No rachet strap or screwdriver needed 👍🏻🦆🦆🦆
That works great if you have a manual for it most used vehicles don’t come with them…..Or in my case it came with neither the factory jack or manual
That doesn't work when you have a 17 year old truck that has been in Iowa winters since new and the spare has never been dropped. But keep being a condescending jackass and show that you've never even checked your oil. This 100% works.
Without the tall stock piston jack, this is nearly impossible. Here was our fix: Lower the spare and remove the nut above the spare tire to release the whole cable mechanism. Remove that entire assembly by lifting the spare and knocking the hinge/tab free from the hinge/slot. Throw all that away (but the spare :) with a curse, change the tire, and keep the new spare strapped down in the truck bed.
Thanks
great tip
I can't even get the key to pull the mechanism out to put the bars in the sheath
Excellent. Super helpful.
Good info thanks
Thanks bro
WHat if you dont have the tool to lower it after its unlocked???
It should be in the cab with the emergency jack
@@Filterficial by it didn’t come with a Jack or a tool
i cant even get the first damn release to even turn. I got as far as put the key to expose the first lock, i put the tool in there and it just free spins, no lowering done what so ever. And its not like you can really see in there so i dont know whts going on
same looks like it's never been off... just about to get my grinder out
Cutting torch works good as well…
Did you try jacking it up to release the hook?
Thanks much.
I’m about to Sawsall that whole thing off broke two large screwdrivers and a pry bar w lump hammer. Just evil evil !!!!!!!! Yea New England rust
Sweet,on the side of the highway,cars passing at 80mph,and you have to F with lowering mech,total bullshit,20yrs and never needed IT TILL now,,,,,engineering at its best,,, knowing it will rust no matter what you do to maintain it,,,,,about to g3t a can of gas and a match
Designed by a lawyer to cover GM’s ass.
It is impossible when the tire is in the way try it
Now do it with the tire up in there all the way
A Rube Goldberg
Leave it to gm to screw over people that live in the Midwest where stuff rusts solid to need more tools than they provide for a normal tire change 🤦 video was helpful so I know why it will never come down
WHAT crank, what behind the seat? What seat/ I've owned the 2005 Montana 2005 for 3 years, needed my spare out, listened your video, and said, what an idiot, helped me ZERO! You need to sTEP 1, do this, Step 2, do this, you say behind the seat, what seat, show me? What tool, show me and explain. where is that tool? behind some seat?? I have the entire rear end of my Van with STUFF, do I have to take it all out and get to the bottom, and try to find a TOOL, what tool, and how does a round hole in the back of my van, need a tool, what tool, and is it round, square, the hole is round, WHAT AM I LOOKING FOR, as there is no round tool I've ever seen.
Step by step, or you just lose people - Goodbye, please re-evaluate your video, it did me no good!
Completely USELESS information when on the side of the road!
howso? all the tools are in the truck
Thank you for this i got so frustrated i started kicking the shit out of mine lol