Jacking up class C motorhome
I had gathered from my ford e450 chassis manual that jacking points are located on axles, slightly beyond suspension and steering hardware. Can you help clarifying how to jack to to change a tire or...
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what I would do is drive across a scale while fully loaded for camping and see what you front axel weighs and what your back axel weighs. then find a jackstand set that rated for more than the highest axel. I am assuming that your rear axel is well under 12000lbs haha so the 3 ton pair will work just fine.
there are frame point you can use, but the problem is you have to jack it higher because the suspension will drop a bit. so usually it is faster just to lift the axel. one thing to not which ever you decide to go with put some squares of 3/4" plywood to put under the jack and jackstands incase you have to di it on a dirt road.
For sure. I carry some 2x6 pieces in the MH. Last time I needed it was on collapsing sandy soil that was easily turning into dust but called offroad recovery to pull me out. When rear drive duallies are burying already, getting the jacks under the axle might be a no go that's why I wonder about frame points which are higher and can be accessed without crawling under, when your tail pipe is already close to touching the ground its easier to dig space outside on the edge.
As to 2 3 ton jacks....is it more or less stable to use one 6 ton jack versus two 3 ton ones? I'd think having single point of failure with all weight on it is worse that having 2 jacks in play? And do I place them right next to each other under axle? (I wonder if this can stress the axle too much having one jack too far towards its middle, the official lift point is right next to the end)
