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marwayne
Senior Member Joined: 25 Oct 2011 Location: Edmonton AB Can Online Status: Offline Posts: 1002 |
Topic: Power Jack ? Posted: 27 Aug 2016 at 1:55pm |
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If you want something done right, do it yourself.
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ToolmanJohn
Senior Member Joined: 23 Apr 2014 Location: Connecticut Online Status: Offline Posts: 451 |
Posted: 27 Aug 2016 at 4:44pm | |
I just bought the Quick Jack from Amazon. I'll install it sometime next week, and report back. i have a trip in late September, and every time I camp at this place, the sites are very sloped. My trailer tongue is either very high, or very low at these sites. Plus with the addition last year of my Anderson WDH, it should make it easier/faster to install the hitch chains.
My driveway slope is also near the max limit of the full extension of my current tongue jack, so I get some exercise every time I park the trailer and hook up in the driveway. I use an old spare 12V DeWalt 3/8" cordless drill and a Camco adapter for the trailer stabilizers. I've never had to touch those with the hand crank!!
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Tars Tarkas
Senior Member Joined: 14 Jan 2013 Location: Near Nashville Online Status: Offline Posts: 1446 |
Posted: 27 Aug 2016 at 5:24pm | |
I wish I'd taken pictures.... The crank on my tongue jack was attached to the top, so it turns like a merry-go-round, as opposed to a Ferris Wheel. The crank was held on with a rivet-like thing. I ground off one end of the rivet, slid the rivet out and removed the handle, leaving a shaft with a hole in the middle. Then I went to the big-box hardware and got a nut the same size as the cranks on the stabilizers.... to lazy to go measure right now, probably 3/4ths or 13/16ths. As I recall, the hole in the nut was the right size to fit easily on the shaft of the jack, but maybe I had to drill it out a bit. I did drill a hole from one face of the bolt, through the center and out the other side. In the center of one face, through the middle of the nut and out the opposite face. The hole was just the right size for an appropriate sized roll pin. I dropped the nut on the shaft, lined up the nut holes I drilled with the hole in the shaft that the rivet used to go through, and I drove the roll pin in. Then I ground the ends of the roll pin flush with the face of the nut, so that a socket could slide all the way down on the nut. VoilĂ . TT |
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jato
Senior Member Joined: 23 Feb 2012 Location: Kewadin, MI Online Status: Offline Posts: 3227 |
Posted: 27 Aug 2016 at 5:56pm | |
Marwayne, you got my vote! And I like the price too !
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'11 model 177 '17 Ford F-150 4WD 3.5 Ecoboost Jim and Diane by beautiful Torch Lake "...and you will know the Truth and the Truth will set you free." |
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Bovine0001
Groupie Joined: 24 May 2016 Online Status: Offline Posts: 40 |
Posted: 28 Aug 2016 at 10:59am | |
Did you cut your crank off? Mine is not detachable. Sorry to pester ya, but this looks cool. |
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marwayne
Senior Member Joined: 25 Oct 2011 Location: Edmonton AB Can Online Status: Offline Posts: 1002 |
Posted: 28 Aug 2016 at 12:12pm | |
Yes I cut the crank off, but left the nipple as long as possible
so I could cut a thread on it to screw the nut on. There is also a set screw on the nut.
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If you want something done right, do it yourself.
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fwunder
Senior Member Joined: 04 Oct 2013 Location: New Jersey Online Status: Offline Posts: 1676 |
Posted: 28 Aug 2016 at 6:09pm | |
I don't have a tap and die set (yet), so I'm thinking popping the top of the crank removing the crank/roll pin and cut threads off a 1/2 inch bolt with dremmel or hack saw and drill a hole for roll pin. I've seen that idea somewhere on the interwebs. If I can borrow a die set before, marwayne's idea is much simpler.
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StephenH
podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 29 Nov 2015 Location: Wake Forest, NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 6289 |
Posted: 28 Aug 2016 at 8:20pm | |
Now that I have the JackQuick power jack installed, I have the manual jack as a backup. I might try to modify it as I will be able to work on it without fear that I will leave my R-Pod without a means to raise and lower it. That way, if something were to happen to the JackQuick, I would have a backup on hand.
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StephenH
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Leo B
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Posted: 28 Aug 2016 at 9:07pm | |
Sounds like a good plan!
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marwayne
Senior Member Joined: 25 Oct 2011 Location: Edmonton AB Can Online Status: Offline Posts: 1002 |
Posted: 29 Aug 2016 at 12:28am | |
I saved the crank had a friend weld a 3/4"socket on the end so I can still crank it manually.
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If you want something done right, do it yourself.
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