Spare tire won’t come down

I tried taking the spare tire off. No luck. Any ideas how to take it off when stuck?

 

Liberal applications of penetrating oil, wait 1 hour, then a large dose of brute force and ignorance.

 

Sounds like my honeymoon!

 

Any luck with this? Was trying to remove mine before I was going to Fluid Film. The chain on mine is really crusty. Spent its life in NY State.

Thanks, Dave.

 

Just went through this with my 2012. Ended up cutting it down with an angle grinder. The tool used to lower it twisted in half I reefed on it so hard. Gotta love Upstate NY. I was going to replace the mechanism, but it looked to me like you have to lift the bed off to get to the fasteners. No thanks...I'll leave that area open, more access for wool wax. Might get a bumper mount spare holder.

 

I ended up taking the whole bed off and cutting it off. Thankfully I had other work to do so it was kinda convenient but yeah.

 

I cut mine off & just store the spare in the bed now.

 

I cut mine off.
I ratchet strapped the tire it to the sub frame, and used the chain as a safety just in case.

 

Road salt must be terrible up north for you guys. I don't even have to deal with it down where I am, but I have a yearly chore to lower the spare, clean and re-air the tire, and to grease up the chain mechanism.

 

You have a chain? I seem to remember Toyota switched from cable to chain in 2011 or 2012.

 

Yep. I flipped the tire so air can be done w/o lowering. And added the PVC tube trick to guide the crank for easy peasy contact

 

It's a good thing I wasn't drinking anything when I read that! Lol.

 

Yes chain, it’s really crusty too. I’m surprised it’s holding the tire up. Going to cut the chain and put the spare in the bed under the hard cover I purchased from FB Market Place. Thanks for your suggestions everyone, much appreciated.

 

Please explain sir ?

 

What part of,

"Rock Lobster said: ↑
Liberal applications of penetrating oil, wait 1 hour, then a large dose of brute force and ignorance."

did you fail to understand?

 

Hahaha!