Using a Jack on trailer

RDP · 06-19-2020, 05:28 PM

When using a jack to raise the trailer on a tandem axle to change or rotate a tire, where can you put the jack? Under the frame? Under the axle? I cannot move the trailer so unable to pull one wheel on a block of wood/cement to raise the other wheel off the ground. Thanks

**creativepart** · 06-19-2020, 06:56 PM

We used a 2000lb bottle jack and put up it under a leaf spring shackle mount. This worked great for us.

GaryS · 06-19-2020, 10:45 PM

JACK ONLY ON THE FRAME. The torsion axles on TTs will bend if you use them to jack up your trailer.

**creativepart** · 06-20-2020, 07:44 AM

Yes, frame only. The leaf spring shackle mount is part of the frame. I used this for jacking because it’s the lowest frame member. Don’t use the axle or obviously the leaf spring.

DavidM · 06-20-2020, 08:03 AM

As others have said, only jack on the frame. For our aluminum framed Livin Lite, I put a foot long 2x4 in back of the second wheel to distribute the load as I jack it up with a bottle jack.

David