Van Height

Hi Greg,

I fit my van in my garage, but have to change the wheels to get it to fit under the roller door. I went to buy them but at $450 for a set of wheels that only travel 10 feet I thought bugger that, thats more than what real wheels cost!!!

So I went to the wreckers and got an old pair of bent rims. They were cut down to 10" diameter with a gas axe and then welded in a 3" wide section of 10" pipe. I then had a 10mm coating of HDPE put on it (had access to coaters through work). But you can skip the HDPE step if you can handle the sound of steel wheels on concrete. So for nix I got a set of 10" rims that are far better than the ones you buy from a caravan shop.

But the moral of the story is they work very well. It takes me 5 minutes to change them (with hiLift jack and rattle gun) and gives you the opportunity to check the wheel bearings every trip.

Cheers

Captain

Seen them at caravan accessory places but don't know how much they cost.
Try the on line catalogue at www.caravanacc.com.au.

Get a set of 10" wheels off an old mini or morris minor from the wreckers and either drill them to suit the stud pattern of the caravan.
Or cut the centres out and weld in a set of centres to suit the van.
They don't have to be perfectly true as they'll only ever travel 5 or 6 metres at less than walking pace.

Geoff.

let the tyres down

I got the concrete cutter in and cut two 600mm wide strips, dug it out, reinforced the surrounds and floor and boxed and re-concreted.

Look in the yellow pages for a caravan wreckers and see if you can get some old bent rims for a couple of bucks, and do what is mentioned here, get the edges coated so you don't bugger up the brick paving or concrete on your driveway.

Also, try caravan repairers, I got some good second handies for a song a few months back.

Cheers,

Muzz