My new tire story
Just got new tires for the trailer on Saturday. I have only put 9000 plus miles on them but they are over four years old and showing signs of wear and slight sidewall cracking. I felt it was time. The...
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bsbeedub wrote:jfkmk wrote:
Man, they must have loved you hanging right there manipulating the jack for them. Frankly, due to insurance purposes, I'm surprised they even let you do that! You should have removed the tires yourself at home.
I thought of that and I was surprised too. I really thought they would tell me to get the heck out but they never did.
I don't have the proper jack to get it up that high and I would be mildly nervous to leave it up on jacks at my storage lot while I would have been gone for that long.
Old-Biscuit wrote:
That's just one of the reasons I have them jack under the spring perch on the axles.
No whacking of fender skirt with jack handle, no bent 'I' beam lips, no smashed hidden goodies from jack head getting into underbelly.
And yeah....I watch them also. The RV is in the lot where I can stand and see.
I also inform them of the lug nut torque and the correct air pressure.
I would think most still rum leaf springs, that said some good solid cribbing under a bottle jack will work great!
This is our first 5er sitting cribbing while I flipped the axles.
