When changing a tire, can you set the emergency brake to lock the wheel to enable one to remove the lug nuts. It is difficult to remove the lug nuts especially if you've had a blow out and have lost your tire. I'm speaking from experience.

If you mean engaging the break away cable, it's not like your parking brake on your vehicle.. The trailer wheel will need to turn just a bit to engage the shoes from the magnet that is now locked on your drum.. Not really a good way to do that if it were me..What I would do is get out my level boards and build up enough height to pull the blown tire on and that should put enough pressure on it to bust loose the lugs and then you can jack up or use whatever other method you would use to get the wheel off the ground to change the tire.Good luck!Mitch

Loosen the lugs before jacking it up. They only need to be loosened enough to be able to turn after the tire is lifted off the ground.

goducks10.. In my case, the one time I had a flat tire on my tandim axle trailer, there was not enough pressure on the flat tire to loosen the lugs without the flat tire spinning when I tried to loosen the lugs. Tire was completely flat.That's when I did what I did above and it worked great.Just what worked for me at that time.. :)Mitch

When I'm in a position where the wheel spins due to the tire being flat or nothing to hold it, what I'll do to crack the nuts is I will use my 18 inch flex bar with a deep 6 point socket. I get positioned so I have a good grip point, then rotate the wheel quickly clockwise with the bar and socket, then very quickly reverse direction, turning the bar counter clockwise with as much force as I can. Usually the momentum of the wheel is enough to crack the nut loose. Sometimes have to do it a couple times.I've done the same thing with a star wrench too. Or using a star wrench, I'll hold it with one hand and give the other end a firm kick with my foot.

Have someone step on the brake pedal. Or, if you're alone, wedge something between the seat and the pedal until you can get the nuts busted loose. Time on the brake solenoids would be about the same as sitting at a long stop light.

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goducks10
Explorer
Jul 30, 2018
Loosen the lugs before jacking it up. They only need to be loosened enough to be able to turn after the tire is lifted off the ground.
MitchF150
Explorer III
Jul 30, 2018
If you mean engaging the break away cable, it's not like your parking brake on your vehicle.. The trailer wheel will need to turn just a bit to engage the shoes from the magnet that is now locked on your drum.. Not really a good way to do that if it were me..

What I would do is get out my level boards and build up enough height to pull the blown tire on and that should put enough pressure on it to bust loose the lugs and then you can jack up or use whatever other method you would use to get the wheel off the ground to change the tire.

Good luck!

Mitch

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