I want to buy 4 new tires for 5er. Want to remove all four tires/wheels, take them and the new tires to a mounting shop. I have hydraulic front landing gear and electric stabilizer jack system in rear. Can I lower front hydraulics to the ground, extend the rear jacks to grade, then raise front high enough to suspend all four tires? If not, can I support frame just behind rear tires and do the same. Ultimately, I need all four wheels removed to get new tires remounted. I want to avoid twisting frame so I think option one is risky, plus, I'll be putting about 12K lbs on the rear jacks. Any better suggestions? I am full timing and don't want to drag it to an RV dealer shop.

Stabilizers are not jacks. Think you would crush them. It would be better to use two bottle jacks under each spring perch on one side and take off two wheels at a time.

You can not possibly put 12,000 pounds on the rear jacks, unless you somehow managed to find a way to place the rear jacks midway under a 12,000 pound trailer and balanced all the weight on them.The front jacks have about 5,000 pounds on them (more than the pin weight for sure, and probably about 20 - 25% more than the pin weight of your trailer. By transferring weight to just the rear jacks and front jacks, you will apply more weight to the front jacks, as the tires leave the ground.You will be much better off by not putting that much weight on the rear jacks. Instead get some scissor jacks (like used in a car or pickup) and jack up each axle end one at a time, support with a jack stand or some 4X6 on their sides. You can use the rear jacks to 'stabilize' and remove some weight from the trailer axles. Also you will be raising the back of the trailer as you put each axle on a jackstand. Remember to lower the rear stabilizer as you remove the jackstands, or they will end up with to much weight on them. Some tire shops will charge extra to install tires you did not purchase there, some will not install tires you bring in at all. Some will install just about anything their machine can handle. Used tire shops are more prone to install anything you bring in, and at a lower price.I would rather go through the effort to drag the trailer down there, and let them remove the rims and install the new tires. If you have one or two bad tires, then I would make the effort to jack up one side of the trailer at a time, and replace only two tires at a time, unless you are exceptionally far from the tire shop (say more than a 20 mile drive each way). Good luck,Fred.

Takes time & planning but easy to do.While still on truck jack & block at the frame aft of the rear wheels. Remove the truck or leave it if you don't need it to transport the wheels. The landing leg motors will protest some at the added weight lifting fwd of the blocks so helping with a bottle jack at the fwd frame might be necessary.Better to transfer trailer weight onto blocks than trust bottle jacks to hold it, especially if the jacks are lifting near their limits.

Here's how I did it while parked in S. Texas.Jack up one tire with a bottle jack. Jack it just enough to take the one tire off. Put the spare on that axle. Let the jack down and jack up the tire next to it. Take that tire off and leave the jack under that axle. Take the two tires to the tire place and have them put the new tires on. This process will keep one tire on the ground and allow little stress to any components. Take the two new tires and reverse the process. Do the other side the same way. It takes a little while but is a safe way to do the process.

lynndiwagon wrote:Here's how I did it while parked in S. Texas.Jack up one tire with a bottle jack. Jack it just enough to take the one tire off. Put the spare on that axle. Let the jack down and jack up the tire next to it. Take that tire off and leave the jack under that axle. Take the two tires to the tire place and have them put the new tires on. This process will keep one tire on the ground and allow little stress to any components. Take the two new tires and reverse the process. Do the other side the same way. It takes a little while but is a safe way to do the process.By far the safest and most stable way to do it.

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C_Schomer
Explorer
Feb 10, 2015
I store mine with the tires off the ground and I've done this for 10 years. I pull the rv onto block first... A separate block under each tire. The hard part is done by the truck... the rv is fully raised. Then I put 4 jack stands under the frame and use a jack to remove the blocks... one at a time. Viola, the 5er is on jack stands the easy way! Craig
avvidclif1
Explorer
Feb 10, 2015
minnow wrote:
Timay wrote:
I needed new tires, so I jacked up one side of the trailer, blocked it, removed the two wheels, took them to the tire place, brought them home and did the other side. Lots of sweat!

While I was at the shop with the 2nd set, the tire guy sez "why didn't you bring in the trailer? we would do all the removing and reinstalling no charge!" - that is the last time I do it myself!

Tim

That's all well and good if the tire jockey knows the correct place to jack the trailer. I'd bet the first place some of them would look with their floor jack would be under the axles.

Yep, saw one at a local tire shop and they had a HD floorjack under the middle of each axle and all 4 wheels off.
minnow
Explorer
Feb 10, 2015
Timay wrote:
I needed new tires, so I jacked up one side of the trailer, blocked it, removed the two wheels, took them to the tire place, brought them home and did the other side. Lots of sweat!

While I was at the shop with the 2nd set, the tire guy sez "why didn't you bring in the trailer? we would do all the removing and reinstalling no charge!" - that is the last time I do it myself!

Tim

That's all well and good if the tire jockey knows the correct place to jack the trailer. I'd bet the first place some of them would look with their floor jack would be under the axles.
Timay
Explorer
Feb 09, 2015
I needed new tires, so I jacked up one side of the trailer, blocked it, removed the two wheels, took them to the tire place, brought them home and did the other side. Lots of sweat!

While I was at the shop with the 2nd set, the tire guy sez "why didn't you bring in the trailer? we would do all the removing and reinstalling no charge!" - that is the last time I do it myself!

Tim
AZ_T_T
Explorer
Feb 09, 2015
I recently put 4 new tires on. I used a bottle jack and 4 jack stands. The bottle jack was placed under the U-bolts and the jack stands were placed as close to the U-bolts as possible. I had my rear stabilizer's down to help stabilize. The whole process was simple and safe.
avvidclif1
Explorer
Feb 09, 2015
rhagfo wrote:
avvidclif1 wrote:
I used 2 HD ramps. Pulled trailer forward with front tires on the ramps, removed rear tires and went to town. Replaced moved ramps to back tires and repeated. The short amount of time the 2 tires were overloaded didn't hurt them. They are not moving and the truck was supporting a lot of the weight.

If jacking the axles, DO NOT put the jack under the round axle tube, it can crush the tube. If the axle is over the spring no problem.

I don't think any axle tube is that thin!!!
My axle is under the spring, and i lift on the tube directly under the spring!

Myself far easier to haul the 5er to the tire dealer!
If I want to remove all tires at once I would build cribbing out of 4X4's or 2X4's, place under the frame just in front of the spring hangers, and just behind.

A 5200 lb axle has 3/16th wall thickness. Concentrate the weight on the wheel in one small spot(top of jack) and see what can happen. Not saying it will, just can.
C-Bears
Explorer
Feb 09, 2015
I don't think it would be worth the effort. I assume you have a torque wrench and know what exact torque your lug nuts have to be set at?

When was the last time you bearings were greased? If they are due why not just take it in for the tires and bearing maintenance at the same time?
Cummins12V98
Explorer III
Feb 09, 2015
One tire at a time the TrailerAid Plus is the way to go.

But much easier to haul the RV to the tire dealer.
time2roll
Nomad
Feb 09, 2015
Boozecamp wrote:
But I'm confused now about lifting point. My leaf springs are above the axles.
I jack on the u-bolt. Only need to lift 1/2".
MARKW8
Explorer
Feb 09, 2015
If you have the Lippert levelup system, you should be able to raise the four rear jacks then the fronts. You might have to block up the jacks to get off the ground though.These jacks are rated to lift way more than the trailer weighs. To be safe though you should put stands or blocks under if you remove all at once.

Mark

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