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Originally Posted by lewster
Terry,
You should be familiar with raising the little bugger anyway....on-the-job training on a bust road trying to chance a tire is NOT FUN!!!
You'll find a small diamond shaped piece of aluminum riveted to the underside of the trailer in the exact position to place the jack. It is midway between the rear bumper and the wheel well.
Don't forget to use a jack stand next to the jack when you get the trailer off the ground and remove the tire. You could also (if you have a pair of stands) raise the other side and save a trip to the tire shop by removing both tires at the same time and leave the trailer on the stands. It's quite safe, as I store my Bambi like this for 6 months.  |
Well, Lew...here's a toast to your expertise and good advice! Our conversation above came about just before we left for a week to Northern Arizona for the 4CU Labor Day Rally (which was great, by the way...we are new members)...so we had not yet changed our valve stems out.
On the way home from NoAZ down through the mountains and into the Valley of the Sun by less traveled roads...we
were going to make a stop for the night in the desert mountains NE of Metro Phx to check out a park there for future reference...but we missed a turn somewhere along the route and ended up in the northern outskirts of Mesa, AZ (an eastern suburb of Phx). So we just decded to head on home rather than back-tracking to hit the park...we'll do it another time...
But it was fate! As we made our way through town to catch our main route home to Tucson, we were coming up to a light in Mesa and suddenly the tire pressure monitor alarm went off and our street side tire on the Bambi was showing 49 lbs...yikes! Within
seconds it was down to 14 lbs and the monitor was beeping frantically... We were on the inside lane and had to wait through a stop light...then turned left and pulled into a gas station on the corner along side the building...got out and checked, and sure enough we had a flat...after a little inspecting we realized the tire valve had failed...there was air hissing out of it where it met the wheel... So there you have it. Lew told us so! I examined the valves earler and saw no apparent problems... We are just glad we weren't in the middle of no where and that we weren't traveling fast when it happend. We jacked the Bambi up, put the spare on and were on our way within the hour... We were prepared happily, and all ended well. So listen to Lew when he tell us something!
He's the man!
And we also were thanksful that we had the Pressure Pros in operation...we had instant warning that there was a problem...without it we would not have known we had a flat until it was too late.
So thank you, Lew...and thank you, all you Pressure Pro advocates that we listened to...it made what could have become a very bad situation just a good story to tell around the campfire. And that is a good thing.
We are taking the Bambi in to Oasis on Monday to switch out our valve stems and do a laundry list of other things...one more thing to make us feel safer on the road...
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