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There is only one "official" jack point on each side of a 19' Bambi...about half way back between the axle and the rear bumper. It may or or may not be marked on the underside with an aluminum diamond. Ours is not...it does, however, have and arrow label that points toward the correct spot...which is on underside at metal frame/beam which is inside the belly pan...it's extremely important to be sure you jack on that beam or you will puncture the belly pan... We have had to change a flat tire while on the road...we used a bottle jack at the jack point with a couple of pieces of wood between the top of the bottle jack and the trailer to help distribute the pressure...and we placed the jack on wood blocks for additional height...even then we did not have enough height to get the tire off, so we used the jack from the truck, placed it under the axle bracket (NOT the axel itself!!)...there is a flat spot on the bracket that holds the axle that is good for placing the jack. We left the bottle jack in place and added jack stands front and back just in case any of the jacks failed... Next time we need to do this, I don't think we will bother with the jack point...we'll go for the axel bracket and use jack stand for support. There are a lot of threads that deal with jacking up a trailer...but having a single axel trailer puts you in a special class because you can't "fudge" like you can with double or triple axles units...if you get a flat, you have no choice but to jack the sucker up! Before I had to actually do this, I was paranoid about it happening...now that I've done it, the "fear" is gone. I know it can de done fairly easily...that first time it took us longer to get the trailer jacked up high enough than it actually took to change the tire. Just take it easy and be careful.
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