Do you carry a jack? If so what kind.

[LetsRV]

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??

Now I'm thinking maybe a jack wouldn't be a bad idea.
Looks like I'll need something around 15,000 lbs.
Any suggestions??

[DrewE]

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.

[CloudDriver]

I carry a 6 ton bottle jack and a torque wrench. With 105,000 miles on the clock have never needed either on the road. I do rotate front and spare tires in the driveway and found that the jack is needed to safely lower and raise the spare tire on its carrier. No way could I lift that weight by hand lying on my back under the rear.

[IAMICHABOD]

I like a low profile one that I can get in a tight spot. MY Class C is fairly close to the ground One like this one fits the bill

[pnichols]

Here's the jack we carry in our Class C RV ... it retracts to a low height to fit under axles and spring mounts but also jacks high because of it's double ram: http://www.torinjacksusa.com/bigred/bigred-categories/bigred-bottle-jacks/item/12-ton-dual-stage-bot...

[Trackrig]

An 8 ton hydraulic jack with a screw top will work fine. Go to Sears, Napa, or so on.

Amazon 8-Ton jack $25.

You should have a few boards with you to block the tires and maybe for under the jack depending on how high up your jacking point is. You should be able to use the boards you use for leveling.

Bill