Recommended Jacks for Tire Change

[sailorsam20500]

I use one of the bottle jacks in the link below. I always have a milk crate with a bunch of 3x4 wood blocks cut to stand in the crate that I put under my tongue and stab jacks when camping.
https://www.menards.com/main/tools/...ottle-jack/t90603b/p-1444445157022-c-9113.htm

 

[Jfkmvk]

Wow you guys buy a jack I have found my vehicle jack works great for my trailer as my truck weighs almost as much as my trailer. But usually when I'm at home I use a floor Jack.

This is what I do as well, even when doing wheel bearing maintenance at home.

 

[RamManMN]

Typically one only jacks up one side or wheel. So of the 6000 lbs, part of the weight is supported by the wheels on the opposite side and the tow vehicle hitch or tongue jack.

Out trailer has a GVRW of about 7500 lbs. For that I use a 4 ton bottle jack along with the necessary wood blocks to get it in correct position, fully retracted, to prevent the base of the jack from being pushed into the ground.

Since our TT is a dual axle trailer, I position the jack on the frame between the two wheels in order to lift one side. Be sure to CHOCK, fore and aft, the wheels on the opposite side. Loosen the lug nuts, (you do have a proper lug nut tool don't you?) before completely jacking up the wheels for clearance to remove the flat tire and install the spare.

Bob

Same here except I found a high lift bottle jack so I don't need the boards and also put in a jack stand so all the weight is not on the jack while I'm working on it.

 

[TrevorL]

The Anderson Hitch rapid jack.

Keeps your three tires grounded and lifts your trailer enough to get the fourth tire off/on without over-lifting.

https://andersenhitches.com/product/rapid-jack/

Also great to have on hand for blow-outs while travelling. Made changing the tire on the side of the highway MUCH safer.

 

[deano55-FRF]

The drive-on crescents WILL NOT WORK ON DEXTER TORSION AXLES. The two wheels are independently suspended. Raising one off the ground will not affect the other (on the same side) at all. It must drop and drop until it won't go any further. That's a lot more lift than most of the drive-on types provide. And of course they are useless on single axle trailers, too.

Conventional leaf-springs-with equalizers axle pairs are the target for this design. When one wheel is raised, the other drops, but only by a limited amount.

I respectfully disagree with Larry-NC. The Camco Trailer Aid Plus provides a safe and excellent way to lift my 2022 Rockwood Roo trailer while I dowheel bearing maintenance or for fixing a flat while on the road. Beats having to use a jack.

 

[fanrgs]

I am in the camp of not using a jack at all. I had both a travel trailer and a fifth wheel with torsion axles and had to change flats on both of them. In addition, I took all four tires off the fifth wheel, one at a time, to have new Goodyear Endurance tires put on at Discount Tire. We were in a RV park in Las Cruces when I found steel belt showing through on one tire. We were leaving the next day for Tucson, so needed tires immediately. In all these cases, I used my plastic leveling blocks to build a ramp tall enough to get the other wheel off the ground. It works well enough that I have been doing it for 14 years, twice at RV parks in Alaska, without ever carrying a heavy jack.

 

[jlh1958]

These work great for tandem axles

Hi!

If you have tandem axles, I highly recommend the Trailer-Aid "Plus" Tandem Tire Changing Ramp. Can get them on Amazon.

I have used them to grease wheel bearings and they lift one wheel off the ground safely and without a jack. Would be super easy and safe when it is time to change a flat.

Hope this helps!

Happy trails!

 

[garywilson]

Hi!

If you have tandem axles, I highly recommend the Trailer-Aid "Plus" Tandem Tire Changing Ramp. Can get them on Amazon.

I have used them to grease wheel bearings and they lift one wheel off the ground safely and without a jack. Would be super easy and safe when it is time to change a flat.

Hope this helps!

Happy trails!

1st flat- Trailer-aid plus. Had to put a 2x6 under it, a little short.
2nd flat- hospital parking lot curb worked fine.

I carry a bottle jack 'just in case' tongue jack goes out or other doesn't work...haven't needed it yet.