Jacking up Fifth wheel
I'm going to install wet bolts on my Jayco and need to lift and remove bolts from spring shackles and since it has RE MORryde suspension i need to replace shackle plate . Question is lifting and wh...
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fj12ryder wrote:
Well, you have to support/raise the frame if you're unhooking the suspension. But you also have to jack the wheels up to support them so you can remove the bolts.
Obviously you can't jack up just the wheels, or just the frame. It takes a combination of both to do suspension work.
What I did what the OP is doing , I jacked a wheel up as said , then removed the wheel, placed some stands I made out of 6x6 steel tubing , lowered the the fifth wheel on to that, repeated until I was sitting on all four steel stands . Axles were hanging free to do whatever I needed to do, was not a hard job at all installing the wet bolts ,and axle braces at all three points.
Obviously not everyone has access to that kind of tubing, but there are quality jack stands or like many do use wood.
