Caravan Jacking points

Image Could Not Be FoundHi there Steve. Loved the comment about the Spurs supporters!!! Thats what I do love about this site, there is a touch of personality and humour about it. I love my rego plate and you are going to kick me even more when I tell you that I have another one on my works trailer and one at the licencing centre to go on the van. I'll certainly be flying the flag. : ) You'll have to agree that a man has to have a passion? My Mum just shrugs her shoulders and has told me that she thought I'd have grown out of it by now! Women......they'll never understand.

I like the sound of the trolley jack. I used to have one back home in London. As you rightly stated though, here, space has been an issue. I am less than happy with the bottle jack supplied with the Cruiser. Unbelievably I have had one puncture on it and that was less than 2 mins from home on the black top. It was pathetic. The jack only lifted the wheell clear of the ground by about 2cm. I was on a slight incline and didn't feel safe at all trying to wriggle the thing off. I now carry plates of wood to put under the jack and as you will know they are a must when off road for soft tracks and sand.

I envisage that we will have more space now, so I may look into a trolley jack.

Thanks very much for the input and taking the time. Hope your team can beat City the weekend as I just don't want them to win the Championship. Throwing their money around like they do just does my head in........

Happy travels.

PS Here's pic of old camper.......especially for you... : ))))

a-phill
you dont have to carry the jack you could tow it behind ????? lol

Phill - The major problem you'll encounter is whether to jack just the axle or the van chassis.
Usually, jacking the axle directly behind the flat tyre is the quickest and simplest method.

However, many vans have limited wheel-arch-to-wheel clearance - so that if you jack the axle, the wheel travels further up into the wheel arch - then you find you cannot remove the wheel, because there is inadequate clearance in the wheel arch for the wheel to come out.

In this case, you need to jack the caravan chassis, so that you have adequate wheel-arch-to-wheel clearance, to allow for wheel removal.
Jacking on the chassis means that you need to jack for greater height before the wheel leaves the ground.
I would check with your caravan manufacturer for their jacking position recommendations - and even do a test jacking before you travel.

The biggest single problem with jacking the axle is that once a tyre is flat, the axle is usually quite close to the ground, and you need a very low profile jack, or need to dig a hole to get the jack under it.
Jacking the chassis is usually much easier, but you need a jack with adequate lift height - bearing in mind that you need to raise the axle from a very low position, with a flat tyre, to quite a high position, that enables wheel removal.

Naturally, flat tyres always happen in the most inconvenient places - on soft ground, muddy ground, or on a side slope! - usually making life more interesting, than you really need it to be! [:-)

Cheers - Ron.