Re: Rear tire removal 1951 model 200

Posted by Don Shields On 2015/6/21 1:22:54

I think the problem is common to the '51 through '54's and maybe for the '55's and '6's also. When I need to get a tire off the rear of my '54 I place a floor jack under the spring mounting plate or perch to lift the tire and wheel off the ground, then put a bottle jack under the frame forward of the axle area and lift the body up as far as the bottle jack will go. Even then it can be hard to squeeze the tire through the space between the brake drum and the quarter panel. The only model that might be exempt from this is the '53 Caribbean with those rear wheel radiused cutouts. I keep a floor jack as well as the original bumper jack (to jack up the body) in the trunk; fortunately I have not had to remove a tire on the road so far.