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by Trevor Long croft
While manufacturers offer a wide choice of garage equipment, quite often a mechanic using materials and tools readily available in the workshop can make his own cheap devices to speed along repair work. One such device has been brought to my notice by Mr Andrew Masson of 45 Christie Crescent, Stonehaven Kincardineshire, Scotland.
He has made a jacking device which fits into a wheelrim allowing the axle to be lifted from outside the vehicle. He says that it makes it easier to jack up wheels with punc tured tyres and leaves ample room between the differential housing and wheel to fit an axle stand. Mr Masson has in fact made two versions of the equipment to suit tubed and tubeless tyre rims.
As can be seen from the picture the tubeless tyre model comprises a fourspoke assembly which locates within the wheel-rim. An ordinary bottle-jack is placed under a simple base lever which pivots about one spoke. As the jack is raised in the normal way, the lever bears against the wheel rim to secure the assembly within the rim. The device is intended to lift the wheel/axle from the ground. Mr Masson recommends that an axle stand should be used when completing repairs. Should anyone require any further information of the device he would be glad to help.