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Originally Posted by grakin
You don't need to remove the wheel skirt - there's enough flex there to get the tire off, at least there is on my 2007 2619. But it sure does seem like the shells need to go up to me.
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There is enough room on your 2619 to leave the wheel skirts-- but it has only the 14" rims and tires. The Witz Clan
will have to either remove the wheel skirts, or desperately "trim" them with a kitchen scissors if they can't find the $%#^ square drive screwdriver. The other posters are right.
I'll give you one guess what I did to my 2619 when I was desperate
My 2619 is built with the bigger 15" wheels and HD axle, I think it's nearly identical to their 3023. And the tire was too tall, too wide to squeeze past the wheel skirt. Not finding the proper screwdriver right away, I grabbed a scissors and trimmed the skirt into a "crescent moon" shape to squeeze the tires through. I've since trimmed the other side, so that it matches-- but neither side is "pretty", it's much better to KNOW that removing the wheel skirt solves the problem than to do my sort of amateur plastic surgery.
I must recommend that EVERYONE try the "install the spare tire" at home, in the light, for practice BEFORE you ever need to do it on the road (maybe in the dark, maybe in a hurry, and maybe too exposed to traffic to "play around" for a long time figuring out how it all works). I was a dumbass, did all my "learning" in the dark, with enough swear words to burn the ears off a coal miner....
