A wheel handling tool (10) for positioning a vehicle wheel relative to wheel studs on an axle of a motor vehicle, the tool comprising; a longitudinal guide member (12) with a first end (14) and a second axle end (16) that in use is placed below a vehicle axle; a sliding carriage (22) mounted on the guide member for slidable movement along the guide member, the sliding carriage having a body with a longitudinal axis transverse to the guide member; a roller (28) at one end of the body and a roller (30) at the other end of the body, each roller having a rotational axis that is parallel to the guide member; the sliding carriage and rollers being configured to receive a vehicle wheel such that the received wheel can be manually rotated on the rollers so as to align holes in the wheel with wheel studs on an axle of a vehicle to which the wheel is to be mounted and in use the sliding carriage and received wheel can slide along the guide member towards the axle end for mounting of the wheel onto the axle studs. imif
WHEEL HANDLING TOOL
2016-11-10
Patent
Electronic Resource
English