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MAINTENANCE/STORAGE
CHANGING THE TIRE
1. Block the tire on your folding camping trailer on the opposite side of the flat tire.
Unhook the trailer from the tow vehicle.
CAUTION: Failure to block the tire and unhook the folding camping trailer from the
tow vehicle could result in twisting the frame of the trailer.
2. Loosen lug nuts. You may wish to loosen lug nuts before raising camper.
3. Use a sturdy and dependable jack to raise your camper, preferably a hydraulic or
scissor jack. Place a jack at one of the points designated on main rail in the diagram
below. A small 4" to 6" square, ½" plywood spacer can be placed between jack and
frame for support.
WARNING: DO NOT place jack under any part of axle beam. The camper
alignment can be altered causing excessive tire wear. DO NOT place jack
under outer "Z" frame rails. DO NOT use stablizer jacks to raise camper.
They are designed to support, not raise or lower camper.
4. Remove lug nuts.
5. Change tire and wheel.
6. Reinstall lug nuts snugly.
7. Lower camper to ground.
8. Tighten lug nuts to 85-95# torque for 12" tires, and 50-75#
torque for 13" tires. Use a cross tightening sequence as
shown.
NOTE: Jacks and lug wrenches are not supplied with camper. Bolt head size is 13/16"
WARNING: Because the axles on an RV do not drive or steer as automo-
bile axles do, the motion of being trailered adds stress that can loosen lug
nuts, especially during the initial break-in period. Wheel lugs can work
loose. Check and tighten wheel lugs every 10, 25 and 50 miles (15, 40 and
100 kilometers) when the unit is new or a tire is changed, then every 3,000
miles (5000 kilometers).
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