Access to spare wheel when camper is on board.

[Gary W]

It's another option

Best wishes

Gary

[earthman]

And make sure your jack is capable of lifting the truck and camper to actually change the wheel.

Yes. I don't ever use the pressed steel OEM jack. I carry a 12 ton bottle jack instead.

Steve.

I think that the highest rated bottle jack that I have at the moment is 2 ton, assuming that you are only lifting one corner of the vehicle at a time, even with a camper on board, surely that should be more than adequate?

To be honest I would have thought that the steel one supplied would have been rated/tested with the bed loaded to it's full weight capacity, otherwise injury lawyers etc would have a strong case against them.

[sabconsulting]

And make sure your jack is capable of lifting the truck and camper to actually change the wheel.

Yes. I don't ever use the pressed steel OEM jack. I carry a 12 ton bottle jack instead.

Steve.

I think that the highest rated bottle jack that I have at the moment is 2 ton, assuming that you are only lifting one corner of the vehicle at a time, even with a camper on board, surely that should be more than adequate?

To be honest I would have thought that the steel one supplied would have been rated/tested with the bed loaded to it's full weight capacity, otherwise injury lawyers etc would have a strong case against them.

I'm not really implying that everyone needs a 12-ton jack. It just happened to be the old jack from my 6x6 GMC duece-and-a-half

Having said that, a higher-rated and larger jack will be more stable and easier to lift the truck with.

Steve.

[earthman]

I've just discovered that my 2 ton bottle jack won't extended far enough anyhow,....this is my first vehicle with serious ground clearance. Lol

[zildjian]

let tyres down first (all four)
change wheel
summon AA with compressor

[earthman]

let tyres down first (all four)
change wheel
summon AA with compressor

Lol, that's an option I hadn't thought of, carrying blocks of wood is one but not something I really want to do.