Thank you! Your comment has been submitted successfully. You should be able to view your question/comment here within a few days.
Error submitting comment. Please try again momentarily.
Replaces the crank extension for your Lippert Components spare tire winch assembly (164898, 178746, and 233739).
Features:
Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Hey everybody, Ryan here at etrailer. Today, we're gonna be checking out the Lippert crank handle, which will connect to the Lippert spare tire winch. First and foremost, this is gonna be used for a couple of different reasons, at least that I can think of. One of 'em being a replacement. Let's say, if your camper or trailer or whatever you got was already equipped with a Lippert spare tire winch and for whatever reason, this got damaged, it's direct replacement. I don't really see that happening because I mean, I don't really understand how this could get damaged but I mean, crazy things do happen.
So, if that's what you're looking for, that's your situation, you're covered with it. But, I feel like this'll be more so used when you add a Lippert spare tire winch. And that's exactly what we did today underneath a bar motor home, we did away with the old one. It was just a wing nut and bolt and kind of a big pain to use and everything else. So, we upgraded to this and whenever you get this, it does not come with the rod to allow you to turn it to actually operate the spare tire winch.
So, this is gonna slide right on the end of it. And there's gonna be a hole in it that lines up with the shaft coming out of your winch, and that's how you're gonna connect the two. So, I used a cotter pin to pair the two together. Kind of a bummer. It doesn't come with the cotter pin, so I feel like that's what most people are gonna do.
I feel like it'd be a nice touch, you know, 'cause even if you we're replacing it, you'd probably want to put a new cotter pin in, right So, if you need one, you can always grab it here in etrailer. We got a bunch of 'em. You can also weld it. If you wanted to put a tack weld on there. You know, it don't really matter.
I'd probably use the pen still that way if you did ever have to change it out, you could easily take it apart. But with that said, this is gonna run in our case, to the back of our motor home, where we can get our tool on it to actually able allow us to turn this and work our winch. The overall length of this is going to be 35 and a half inches. That doesn't mean you can't cut it down low. Say if only you needed was like a foot, you could cut it and then obviously redrill a small hole there to line up with the hole on your wind shaft to put the cotter pin in. So, it is somewhat customizable. I do wanna mention it's not gonna come with any supports or anything. This is something that I made just to brag with the hole to keep this supported since it is so long. Just throwing that out there. But at the very end of it, we're going to have a hexagon shape and that's going to be three quarters in size. So, a three quarter inch socket six point socket will fit right over this and you can operate it and use a four way or your socket and breaker bar or whatever to turn this. Or you can always pick up the tool that's designed to fit over this and operate your spare tire winch. So, this is that tool I was talking about. Has that three quarter inch socket essentially just welded onto it. And that's gonna allow you to put that through onto our P air and rotate this and either raise or lower our tire there. Other than that, though, you know, at the end of the day, this is like I said before a replacement part or honestly almost a must have for those of you that plan on adding the Lippert spare tire winch. And that'll finish up our look at of the Lippert crank handle for the Lippert spare tire winch..
Customer Satisfaction Score:
96% were satisfied with this product
4% of customers were not satisfied
Ratings & Reviews
Victoria H.
4/3/2025
So glad to see it worked out perfectly for you Jimmy! Whenever you're ready for your next project, we'll be here to help :)
Frank
4/27/2022
The crank shaft is still secure. I would recommend using a stainless screw, 2 washers and a lock nut to secure it to your tire winch. Also, I would recommend checking your spare is secure before every trip and trip back home. Works perfectly for me. Most likely you will have to modify shorten the shift and drill a new hole to fit your application. Nothing is perfect in this world. Product works perfect. The ones who take stars off the product will never be happy. This is 100 star product if you need a shift for your spare.
Lester
10/8/2020
Great
Do you have a question about this Accessories and Part?
Info for this part was:
At etrailer we provide the best information available about the products we sell. We take the quality of our information seriously so that you can get the right part the first time. Let us know if anything is missing or if you have any questions.
Jerry G.
8/4/2021
Its been the best buy for my trailer as I had no way to get my tire to lower.