Thread: Fitting old fashioned snow chains

Originally Posted by spudboy

I got these chains 2nd hand from a snow shop up near Falls Creek, and when I bought them they gave me a quick demo of how to fit them, but be buggered if I can remember how to get started.

Here's a picture:


I know that A goes to E, B to F and C loops back through G (somehow I forgot D when I did the lettering!) BUT how do I get started putting them onto the tyre.

Do I have to put them partly on and then drive the car forward?

Any advice appreciated.
David

Lay them out flat and drive into the middle, then loop them around and connect

Originally Posted by harro

Lay them out flat and drive into the middle, then loop them around and connect

And if I remember rightly 'last time I fitted something like this I was about 10 and it was to an Austin 105' the hook you have named 'C' goes through an eye on the other end and then loops back to its own ring.
Hope this has been of some help, a lot easier when you are looking at it.

They did something tricky, passing one of the hooks behind the wheel, but I can see that laying them out and driving onto them is an option.

Wish I knew what brand they were so I could Google them.

Just google 'snowchains' and some of the manufacturers would have pics to show you how to mount them. They most likely would have instructions as well.

Just use some common sense and adapt to your brand.

A snowchain is a snowchain

Cheers.

from our experinace in the snow once fitted drive forward about a few meters and retighten the chains.
also remember dont go onto full lock, we have tried it out and lost a chain that way.
ours are rudmatic, the ones with a ring, i think they also do your design so may be try there web site.
http://www.rud.com/en/index.php

cheat, Make up 2 wooden boards that the chains fit onto with raised blocks to seperate the runs of chain (sort of like a sand ladder) but deep enough to hold 2 chains

lay the chains in them then drive onto them, wrap the chains onto the front tryres then keep driving till the back tyres are on and wrap them.

neat easy storage, if you paint it right you can clean the chains on em, easy installation and if youre as into over engineering as I am you could also use your chain boards as sand ladders.