A "blow out" of a thanksgiving trip!
Part 1.. We had our first blow out on the road last week. (We were on I-75) Not too much damage down below, maybe because I stopped immediately as I knew exactly what had happened and I was only going...
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If any of you have changed a tire on the interstate, what have you used?
Started towing trailers for a living in the late '60s. I use a 12 ton shorty truckers special hyd bottle jack. It slides easily under the axle next to the U bolt on a std leaf spring suspension. It has a 10" x 10" base and a short legged U channel that cradles the axle so no slipping off the jack on the side of a highway or sinking in mud.
All the jack does is lift one end of the axle (on any slope) enough to remount the spare. No sense in lifting the whole side of the trailer while on the side of the road.
This old jack has logged way over a million miles in many different trucks with me and used on axles of all sizes up to 10000 lbs.
Others have their favorite way of changing a tire on the side of a highway on a slope.
