Where is a tandem trailer supposed to jacked up at to raise one axle at a time, jack up the axle or the frame, and if the frame I guess in front of the wheel for the first axle and behind the wheel for the real axle?
Where is a tandem trailer supposed to jacked up at to raise one axle at a time, jack up the axle or the frame, and if the frame I guess in front of the wheel for the first axle and behind the wheel for the real axle?
I always put a floor jack on the flat spot where the leaf springs are bound together...never had a torsion axle trailer.
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There are different ways of jacking up tandem axle axles, and none's worse than the other.
I carry a couple of bottle jacks and just jack up the end of the axle I need to get off the ground.
Some will carry ramps and drive one axle up 6" or so--lifting the other axle.
Others will use a floor jack and lift the frame between the axles.
It's up to you how to lift'em.
Just didn't want to bend an axle from doing it wrong.
I have always just jacked up the trailer on the axle. You can lift on the spring pads but they are normally close enough to the tire you cant get a floor jack on it very well.
Driving the other wheel on that side up on a block is the easy way.
I usually use my floor jack or the truck's jack near the end of the axle.
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you wont bend an axle with a jack, it will hold much more static weight than if you were 3 wheeling and hit a pothole, just don't dent an axle, have a scrap piece of wood between or something.
If you put the jack on the trailer frame, the spring will just keep stretching out until it reaches its maximum. You old enough to remember cars that used a bumper jack? Same principle, you would have the bumper 4 ft. Off the ground, and the tire would be 2 inches off the pavement.
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