Jacking your van for Wheel Change

I have a Kojack type jack with the smaller brackets fitted to the caravan.With the caravan attached to the car as instrutions it lifts the caravan with no effort.I have tried a trolley and find it very akward to position it under the axle and difficult to operate.

Agree that the Alko jack is a piece of junk not worthy of the name 'jack'.

We also have a trolley jack that we carry in the boot.

I have changed a wheel on the motorway. Not a pleasant experience but perfectly do-able. How do you think the breakdown service do it? 

Vehicles tend not to veer off the motorway into parked vehicles. Nor do aircraft tend to plunge from the sky into them.

I totally disagree with your statement about vehicles veering off the motorway....usually large hgv type! (and aircraft do crash onto vehicles!!!!)Breakdown/recovery operators are trained in self protection and even they can be caught out!!!Do not be tempted>(in my opinion)

Thanks to all of you that have replied to my plea for help. Albeit, I feel I have been told off now for even considering changing a wheel on the hard shoulder. I was of course referring to any situation of changing a wheel. I am actually a fully paid up Mayday member so could call them out but like some of the comments say, I would like to think I can change a wheel without having to cry for help plus you could sit around waiting for a couple of hours before they turn up. I am going to go with the general consensus and get a 2t Trolley Jack from Halford's who seem to have many on offer around the £30.00 mark. This is a shame as I did have one of these many moons ago but left behind when we moved house 14 years ago. I wonder if they still have it! Many thanks all once again.

Something to bear in mind, last week I had a slow puncture on a car wheel which fortunately the local garage managed to repair. When I returned home I decided to check the wheel nut torque. Could I slacken the wheel nuts? no chance, even with my spider brace. The nuts were on so tight they were impossible for me to budge. So I couldn't have changed the wheel even if I needed to. I had to go back to the garage. Their air gun was set for too high. 

As I said above, changing a wheel on the motorway (or anywhere else) is pefectly do-able. If you have the right jack (a trolley jack).

Unless of ourse you are worried that a plunging aircraft might hit you. In which case, it's best that you stay permanently indoors. 

"Vehicles tend not to veer off the motorway into parked vehicles"

What a shockingly incorrect statement, I believe this is the biggest (and significant) cause of fatalities on a motorway.  I have personally witnessed this on the M74, killing one of the drivers.......

If I had a twin axle caravan and I got a puncture I would drive it (drag it) slowly on the one good tyre (on that side) to the nearest safe place, an exit or somewhere the hard shoulder fanned out or something. Being stopped on the hard shoulder is the most dangerous place there is in the UK and unless my vehicle was totally incapacitated, no way would I stop there.......

The easiest and safest way to lift a wheel on a TA van is to put a decent wedge under the other wheel on the same side and push/pull the van onto it. This will lift the whole side of the caravan.

I was thinking about getting the best of both worlds by cutting off the top of the Alco jack and using it to make an adaptor for the trolley jack.  Of course, I can't find the Alko jack any more.

Could some kind person who still has one and can master the photo uploading please pop on a picture of the said item.

I have one but cannot master the photo thing.......sorry.

But I agree, a trolly jack with a fitting to go in the Alko side brackets would be the best of all wolds.