Hydraulic jack for a 24Ve trailer - 1.5 T, 2 T, 2.5T or 3 Ton?

[Wake Havasu]

Hydraulic jack for a 24Ve trailer - 1.5 T, 2 T, 2.5T or 3 Ton?

[xpjim1]

I went with the 4T.

[wrangler]

I was also thinking of something along that line for ours... Do you have a link to a site or a picture of what you guys are considering or used in the case of XPJim... Thanks...wrangler

[xpjim1]

I went with a 4 ton bottle jack.

[lee]

Sometimes if you have a flat, the axle will be too low to the ground to get a bottle jack underneath it. Then you will need to jack the trailer using the frame and could need to use a block of wood to get the height of the jack high enough to touch the trailer and still be able to lift the trailer to put a full tire back on.

[raythompson]

Three ton floor jack will easily lift a single axle of the trailer. You only need to get it high enough to change the tire. Floor jacks are easy to move around, provide excellent stability, large lifting block, and a large lift range.

I have used the three ton to change a single tire that got sliced open on a ramp. Some clod has busted a bottle just under the water line. The glass sliced the side of the trailer. A new tire was about $120.00. The jack worked well and made it easy to simply jack the axle up.

I used a three ton jack to change the springs, and later the axle on my prior boat trailer. It weighed in at about 3000 pounds with the trailer. Jacked each side up and then used floor jacks. It was still unnerving crawling under the trailer to remove the springs, and later the entire axle.

The first case involved find out three of the four leafs on one spring were broken and two leafs on the other spring were broken. Not too bad to replace. Later a bearing failed in one wheel. Lost the axle nut outer bearing and inner bearing was destroyed. The wheel hub was riding on the axle and destroyed both. Taking the axle completely out was a job, mostly because it was cumbersome.

[jsz]

I bought a 20T bottle jack with a 9"-18" lift range @ Kragen for $28.