Jacking up a trailer to change a tire

fj12ryder wrote:
If you're just jacking the axle up far enough to change the tire, then it wouldn't matter that much. If you're jacking the whole side of the trailer up then the stabilizers should be retracted.

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The last flat tire I had on my RV trailer was while we were set up at a KOA. Stabilizers were down/ramp for the sewer hose was set/etc.
Raising one end of the axle enough to get the flat tire off and on. No need to lift the whole side of the trailer.

If you're just jacking the axle up far enough to change the tire, then it wouldn't matter that much. If you're jacking the whole side of the trailer up then the stabilizers should be retracted.

If you have them up, then it is hooked up, that is cool.

If not hooked up, and you are setting on level ground (like the concrete floor in my barn), putting the jack as you described will just raise the jacked wheel up on a tandem axel.

Stabilizers are just that---Too stabilize the RV. I have replaced scores of rear stabilizers that were extended and the customer forgot to retract before he used the front tongue jack and raised the front of the trailer and bent and collapsed the rear stabilizers. NEVER use Stabilizers to lift the RV to level or do anything other that Stabilizing. Doug

UP.

Have the stabilizers up to change a tire. They are for stabilizing the TT when parked, not for carrying a big part of its weight when the other side is raised.

Wayne

Don't use stabilizers at all for a tire change.

Stabilizers should be UP if lifting/jacking the trailer. Best to have it connect to TV, or chock the wheels to avoid rolling

If you are just lifting the axle 1" to remove a wheel I don't think it matters.
Far more important is to make sure the trailer will not roll away and take you and the stabilizers out with it.
I like my trailer connected to the truck if removing a wheel.

I would have them up because when the one side lift it pushes down the other side a bit and put too much pressure on the stabilizers. Been there, done that. :D