Do you carry a jack? If so what kind.
Have a 30ft Class C on the Ford E450 chassis. It does have a spare tire carried under the coach. While I do have road service available what if I have a flat and don't have cell phone coverage?? ...
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In theory, the jack only needs to support half the axle weight (plus a bit of safety margin), so a six ton jack should be plenty. In practice it's nice to have some extra capacity as it makes jacking easier, particularly in the constrained space in which one needs to use it. I have an 8 or 12 ton bottle jack (I forget which offhand) with the screw extension on the ram and it serves the purpose just fine. I have needed to use it on the road, not for tire trouble but to free up a sticky brake caliper. I've used it more in my driveway for various maintenance needs.
The Ford manual describes where the jack points are.
You should also make sure you have the other necessary equipment: a lug wrench (I use a breaker bar and socket and extension for the back wheel), a set of wheel chocks, and perhaps a way to put air in the spare if it's not up to snuff. The wheel chocks are quite important, and doubly so if your parking brake is one of the drive shaft mounted ones as jacking one back corner off the ground renders that style of brake completely inoperative. I think the drive shaft brake was only used for a few years on the E series in the late 90's and early 2000's, but I might be wrong about that.
The Ford manual describes where the jack points are.
You should also make sure you have the other necessary equipment: a lug wrench (I use a breaker bar and socket and extension for the back wheel), a set of wheel chocks, and perhaps a way to put air in the spare if it's not up to snuff. The wheel chocks are quite important, and doubly so if your parking brake is one of the drive shaft mounted ones as jacking one back corner off the ground renders that style of brake completely inoperative. I think the drive shaft brake was only used for a few years on the E series in the late 90's and early 2000's, but I might be wrong about that.
