Power Jack ?

Originally posted by Bovine0001 Originally posted by Tars Tarkas Maybe this isn't the solution for everyone, but I replaced the crank on my stock jack with a hex nut the same size as the shafts on the stabilizer jacks.  I use an 18v cordless drill for both now.  Less work  and a lot less expense than buying a power jack.  The drill has plenty of power for cranking the trailer up or down quite a few times.TT how did you do that?  My crank does not simply come off.

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.  Voilà.

TT

 

Originally posted by marwayne 1.50$

Did you cut your crank off? Mine is not detachable.

Sorry to pester ya, but this looks cool.

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.

fred

Sounds like a good plan!