Don't believe I'd trust a lead sleeve to hold in this application. Everything in that linked page is steel, brass, aluminum,etc. Lead is too soft to hold.

 

Gotta be a typo, they are brass, copper, and aluminum in the site, I believe he meant loop sleeve.

 

Kinda hard to mistype "lead" if you meant to type any of the others. He's talking about keeping the tire retainer at the end of the cable. In any case even using lead on the loop sleeve isn't the optimal thing to use as lead's too soft.

 

No mistake is too difficult for me

Sixto
93 E150 Chateau 5.8 190K miles

 

I didn't see any lead ones on the link he provided.

 

I didn't either. That's one reason why I questioned his suggestion to use a lead sleeve at the end of that cable.

 

To be cheap, I tried to make do with a lead crimp on fishing wieght on a TV cable once to pull up slack, was too long, yeah, that worked out well, don't know when it came off, or where it went, pinched it good I thought.

 

I try to use all my scrap lead for bullets

 

That was a long time ago, back when bullets were plentiful and cheap, the good old days. (sigh)

 

I had issues keeping my sparetire under my 90' f-150 for awhile. After it passed me on the four lane I got under there and made sure everything was cinched up tight. I was lucky the tire passed me on the passenger side and not the drivers side.

 

It's amazing as to how something that's horizontal when dropped, passes you up in the vertical. Was trucking down the road last night and at one point passed something shiny and red in the road. Then about another mile further was a complete stop sign straddling both lanes. Had to stop, back up and cart it off the road before someone else ran over it and lost control. Lately around here, the teenagers have gotten into the mud riding thing, this includes barreling off the highway through the ditches, just to get their trucks muddy. Pretty sure this is how that stop sign ended up in the road. They ran it down and it got pulled completely outta the ground in the process.