[s-cars] How not to change your tire

[frank j. bauer]

At 06:50 AM 7/29/01 -0400, Lee M. Levitt wrote:
>Len McKenzie [mailto:len.mckenzie at home.com] writes:
>>
>> Little gizmo?????  What little gizmo???
>>
>> I will check my toolkit first thing in the morning.  I might even read the
>> manual;^)
>>
>
>Make sure you have said little gizmo. It would have saved me 2 hours by the
>side of the road if I had known to look for it. Doh.
>
>It's a short black plastic dowel about 4 inches long, threaded at one end.
>Before you remove the last stud, you insert this into the wheel to hold the
>two parts of the hub together (keeping the holes aligned). The wheel slides
>off over this.

for those who don't already have this handy tool, the "Tommy bar" is
available as part # 093 012 223.

frank