Spare tire access
The truck camper covers the point above the truck bumper where I crank down the spare tire. Solutions? Is there a way to relocate it, or is there an aftermarket tire hoist mechanism which can be ope...
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Z-Peller wrote:Stevenal wrote:
Z-Peller wrote:
Unless you have a very light camper, you will have to undo tiedowns and raise camper 6” or so on jacks to take weight off truck to jack it up.
Good thing I have a camper with jacks and not a load of gravel. I've looked through the truck manual, and nowhere does it state the truck needs to be unloaded prior to jacking. I would think that failure to provide a jack suitable for the GVWR, or suitable warnings regarding unloading wouldn't get past the legal review.
You may have a valid point, but I subcribe to the old adage " an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"....I have changed an inside dually on the road with my camper on, and only the OEM jack to lift it with. No way I'm sticking my head and shoulders under that fender relying on OEM jack just because there was nothing in the owners manual saying I couldn't. Camper has electric jacks, so seemed a no brainer to me.
That part is in my owner's manual: "Do not get under a vehicle that is only supported by a vehicle jack."
