3 tons wrote:
Be advised that this should bring up another important topic - How to jack up the truck and change a rear tire with a heavy loaded camper in the bed…I found that the jack was worthless…
There are multiple solutions. 1. Use the TC jacks to jack up the TC after you undo the tie downs. 2. Buy a larger bottle jack. I carry a 12 ton. The large ones aren't that much more.
I haven't personally had a flat in decades. It seems keeping good quality tires on a vehicle helps. The last time I was driving a forest service road, and they thought it was a good idea to put slicing rocks down as a road base. It went right through the sidewall of my B rated tires. The rocks looked a lot like heads for tomahawks. ;)
It's one of the reasons why I wanted a F450. The tire sidewalls are much heavier duty. YMMV.
