Whoever said you can't support the camper by the frame?

absolutely nothing wrong with that blocked up trailer.I can guaranty he has no shimmies and shakes inside.

Lynnmor wrote:
The only problem with jacking under the axle is many are made with ridiculously thin tubing and they can be bent.

Okay, now that makes sense.

My thought was that the wheels are attached to the hubs that are attached to the axle. So your just supporting it from another position. But if you put a vertical pressure point on the tube that normally has a horizontal load on it, I get that it may bend if its weak.

Really though when you change a flat you're not jacking up the entire trailer if it has more then one axle. You're just raising up one half of one axle.

The majority of the load is still on all the other wheels and the trailer tongue or tongue jack.

The only problem with jacking under the axle is many are made with ridiculously thin tubing and they can be bent.

wa8yxm wrote:
Some Folks say you should never have the wheels off the ground.. Some truth to that "Because the suspension is designed to hold the trailer up not the wheels/axles" (pure bunk)

The reason you should never have the wheels off the groung is the STABLIZER jacks can pretzel on you (Seen it happen) but with proper supports (As shown in the photos) no problem at all.. (Thankfully it was just the front stablizers on a trailer that pretzeled. so the tongue jack handled the load once it was properly set up Could have been worse) Oh. I drive a class A.. (So you know it was not mine)

The wheels are the only thing making contact with the ground, so aren't they supporting the camper?

And if i am changing a tire on the side of the road, the jacks wont be down anyway, right?

Some Folks say you should never have the wheels off the ground.. Some truth to that "Because the suspension is designed to hold the trailer up not the wheels/axles" (pure bunk)

The reason you should never have the wheels off the groung is the STABLIZER jacks can pretzel on you (Seen it happen) but with proper supports (As shown in the photos) no problem at all.. (Thankfully it was just the front stablizers on a trailer that pretzeled. so the tongue jack handled the load once it was properly set up Could have been worse) Oh. I drive a class A.. (So you know it was not mine)

Dick_B wrote:
I think the phrase was `do not support the camper by the axle'. I always jack up our camper by the frame when changing/rotating tires.

Really? Why not? That seems overkill. Am I missing something?

Why on a dual axle trailer cant you just jack up the axle and lift a flat tire off the ground? The other tire doesn't raise up and still supports half of the weight.

Dick_B wrote:
I think the phrase was `do not support the camper by the axle'. I always jack up our camper by the frame when changing/rotating tires.

Really? Why not? That seems overkill. Am I missing something?

Why on a dual axel trailer cant you just jack up the axel and lift a flat tire off the ground? The other tire doesn't raise up and still supports half of the weight.

.... only applies of it's a non-lippert frame......lol

I think the phrase was `do not support the camper by the axle'. I always jack up our camper by the frame when changing/rotating tires.

Why can't you if supported properly:h