Flat tire on SW Truck while carrying a TC?

Buzzcut1 wrote:

work2much wrote:

Buzzcut1 wrote:
had a rear tire blow out on my SRW with a 4600 pound lance 1055. The blow out and getting the rig safely stopped is the issue. Changing the tire isn't. As long as you have a good bottle jack ( not the OEM Jack) changing the tire with the camper on or off is the same thing. loosen the lug nuts, drop the spare and pull it out. jack the truck up remove the lug nuts and flat. put on the spare tighten the nuts lower the jack, torque the lug nuts stow the flat and off you go.

Shouldn't the OEM jack be rated high enough to lift the truck when loaded? What would one do if they had the bed full of rocks?

I hadn't considered that the factory jack wouldn't be up to the task before. It would suck to have it fail with the wheels off the hub. :o

I guess one could also undo the tie downs and use the camper jacks to get the truck back to empty weight.

It will just barely do it. The oem jack will be right at its max load and height and it has such a small base that it is tippy. After that I switched to a 12 ton hydraulic jack, so much faster and easier to use.

Really good to know this. I never had to use my jack on my F350, with or without the camper on, I guess I was lucky the mobile tire shop happened to drive by when I got my flat tire in Mexico. I'll add a 12-ton bottle jack to my list before heading out again next fall.