Tire changing on Class C
I have just discovered a bad tire on my Class C. Naturally it is the inside rear on the driver's side. Looks like it is separating as there is a knot on the sidewall and a lot of vibration when driv...
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My tire shop does this work on my RV out in the driveway. Bottle jack under the shock mount, 3/4 drive impact wrenches, needed pry bars to get the wheels off the axle. A single lug nut holds both duals, but they also get rust-welded to each other and to the hubs.
They loosen the lugs slightly before jacking, and chock the front wheels to lift the rear, because the parking brake and park in transmission are both ineffective when one rear wheel is lifted.
If you have an old tire starting to come apart, the others of similar age are probably close. Learned this the hard way on my minivan when three of the five tires developed bulges on the same trip (in extremely hot weather).
My advice is to take it to a tire shop that works on medium duty trucks, because if tires are of similar age, it is time to replace them, and you want it done at a place that knows what they are doing. Lug nuts on this chassis need to be properly torqued, in stages. A lot of tire shops just run them down with an air wrench. Then, after 200 to 500 miles, they need to be torqued again. My tire shop told me to come back for that, yours should too. I didn't, because I torque them myself at the beginning of every season, just a maintenance thing like checking pressures before every day of driving.
They loosen the lugs slightly before jacking, and chock the front wheels to lift the rear, because the parking brake and park in transmission are both ineffective when one rear wheel is lifted.
If you have an old tire starting to come apart, the others of similar age are probably close. Learned this the hard way on my minivan when three of the five tires developed bulges on the same trip (in extremely hot weather).
My advice is to take it to a tire shop that works on medium duty trucks, because if tires are of similar age, it is time to replace them, and you want it done at a place that knows what they are doing. Lug nuts on this chassis need to be properly torqued, in stages. A lot of tire shops just run them down with an air wrench. Then, after 200 to 500 miles, they need to be torqued again. My tire shop told me to come back for that, yours should too. I didn't, because I torque them myself at the beginning of every season, just a maintenance thing like checking pressures before every day of driving.
