Changing tires with bottle jack

[buswarrior]

Start your own new topic???

This is tacked onto a thread from 2010... it's fine to link to, or refer to something old, when you find something that tightly involves the current predicament... this question was worthy of standing alone, fresh and new.

Do we have any Board etiquette anymore?

Maybe I'm just getting old and crotchity...

Happy coaching!
Buswarrior

[busfan]

Thanks guy's, Kyle that is rather can do! I hope to tackle the Air bags on my fishbowl next.

Tire was on a 4103 1951 newlook suburban(sprung, no air bags).. I went with a lower profile bottle jack, instead of the shackle; I was taking the tire off to assist a transport a 4509 with a bad tire..

Never changed a tire on these, the left thread stud quality is noticeably better quality IMO, Based on the observation that the nuts came off with my old dewalt battery powered impact gun and the rights still have not relented..(yes 'passenger' side is stamped R).

I plan to get a real nice set of tires I can swap out to whichever bus I am going to use, so I will be updating once I find a good 'non' low profile jack point solution on the 'left' or drivers side, with the hidden axle.

[chessie4905]

Btw, they now make an air assist low profile jack.

[busfan]

Btw, they now make an air assist low profile jack.

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Thanks Chessie I saw that...Probably be a good call for some jobbers, maybe more dangerous thou; saw some complain that the seal blows up at 10T on the 20T regular air assist's(hose coming out of top).. Also saw people making log splitters out of the big ones.