{"id":48058,"date":"2026-10-14T19:43:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T23:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=48058"},"modified":"2026-10-14T19:43:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T23:43:02","slug":"ruthannes-trailer-issues-2026-10-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=48058","title":{"rendered":"ruthanne&#8217;s trailer issues &#8211; 2026-10-13"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>need to torque the wheels before moving<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Also there&#8217;s one wheel nut, or wheel lug nut, that has a different outside diameter so you have to use two different wrenches, which would be a suck if you only had one wrench for the four others.<br>Same on driver-side; maybe is done as a simple anti-theft?<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the spare is a 16-inch tire. It rubs on something, probably the fender, so it&#8217;s too big to be a spare although it might work in a real emergency.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><s>pumped the passenger-side tire to 42psi (label sez 44, so we&#8217;re close); if it holds for a few days, no problem taking it to dump &amp; back.  However, if it is flat again (will check Saturday), then the 16&#8243; spare must be replaced by her.<br><\/s>&#8212; 2026-10-13 &#8211; Tuesday &#8211; 2 days later, holding.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><s>The driver-side tire is low, ~15psi. MUST pump it up and then check it a day later.<\/s>  Pumped up to ~42psi,<br>&#8212; 2026-10-13 &#8211; Tuesday &#8211; 2 days holding.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lube the hitch mechanism with white lithium spray<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"5\" class=\"wp-block-list\"><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48082,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48058\/revisions\/48082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}