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Topic: New Rpod 178 owner

Posted By: albikes
Subject: New Rpod 178 owner
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2020 at 3:42pm

Have watched numerous you tubes of "On the Road with John Marucci. Highly recommend if you haven't viewed his videos. He covers everything about Rpods pretty thoroughly. Even on his tire video, he has never mentioned what kind of jack to use is you have a flat tire. Can the trailers jacks work or is that too much weight on the jacks to lift the one side of the trailer off the ground. If you can use the trailer jacks, what would you recommend purchasing? Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

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Posted By: StephenH
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2020 at 5:11pm

I use a compact floor jack and a jacking block made to keep the pressure off the axle tube. The weight rests on the block from the vertical flanges on either side of the axle tube. The one I have is similar to this one:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Hyper-Tough-2-Ton-Trolley-Jack-Red-Black-T82011W/33348135 - https://www.walmart.com/ip/Hyper-Tough-2-Ton-Trolley-Jack-Red-Black-T82011W/33348135

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Posted By: jato
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2020 at 8:13pm

Our jack is similar to StephenH above. 2 ton lift and comes in its own hard plastic carrying case to keep everything contained. We purchased ours from Harbor Freight.

+1 to above post, that is the proper place to jack the r-pod, not on the axle tube.

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Posted By: offgrid
Date Posted: 02 Dec 2020 at 8:35pm

+2. Best place to Jack is those vertical flanges, not the axle tube and for sure not the frame tubes which are only 0.1 inch thick.

On the road I use the scissors jack that came with my tow vehicle, which has a slot that fits the vertical flanges perfectly. That way I don’t need to carry two jacks. At home for maintenance I use a floor jack. The trailer axle load is only 1750 lbs per side max, pretty much any jack will handle that.

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