Changing A Flat Tire - GMC SIERRA 1996 Manual

Changing a Flat Tire
If a tire goes flat, avoid further tire and wheel damage
by driving slowly
to
a
level
place. Turn on your hazard
warning flashers.
Changing a tire can cause an injury. The vehicle
can slip off the jack and roll over you or other
people. You and they could be badly injured.
Find a level place to change your tire. To help
prevent the vehicle from moving:
1. Set the parking brake firmly.
2. Put an automatic transmission shift lever in
PARK (P)
or shift a manual transmission to
FIRST
(1) or REVERSE: (K).
3. If you have a four-wheel-drive vehicle,
be sure the transfer case is in a drive
gear
--
not in NEUTRAL (N).
4. Turn
off the engine.
CAUTION: (Continued)
To
be even more certain the vehicle won't move,
you can put blocks at the front and rear of the
tire farthest away from the one being changed.
That would be the tire on the other side of the
vehicle, at the opposite end.
The following
steps will tell
you how to use the jack and
change a tire.
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