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efiguero
Sep 03, 2013Explorer
A tire pressure monitoring system is on my wish list, along with other upgrades. As soon as my budget allows I will be purchasing one, but not this year. As for changing the tire, I don't know much about changing tires on these larger rigs (A class C is larger than I am used to.). However I did learn somethings while watching the tire guy. Some of the things were, where to lower the spare from as neither the MH or Ford manuals showed where this crank was located. I still have not located the tool to use on the crank to drop the spare as that was not mentioned either. I will continue my search, but it may not be there as this was a used rig. With Dual rear tires, they are not the easiest to check pressure on as it took the guy at Discount tires a bit of time to do with professional tools. That the spare is interchangeable with the front and rear. Since I had never had any experience with a dual wheel rig, looking at the rims in the front and back they look different. I learned that they are the same just flipped, I did not know this. Also, it seemed an air powered jack worked versus a large floor jack when the tire guy when to jack up the rig. Anyhow, these are just a couple of the things I learned. I have also read that it is not the best idea to do change your own tire on these heavy rigs, hence the reason for roadside assistance. However I did learn that you should know how to drop your spare, lol. I have only had the MH since the start of the summer so I am slowly but surely trying to buy what I need and upgrade what I can as my budget allows. If I had the budget to buy all the goodies, I probably would have been able to afford a new rig versus and old 97, lol. Anyhow, thanks for all the suggestions and advice!
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