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grimmrlg
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Jun 28, 2015

Low cost rear electric jacks on my Class B/C

When I acquired a newer Trail-Lite 27 Class B+ coach, it had no leveling system and I had installed manual scissor stabilizing jacks to the rear of my previous coach but hated cranking them down and up. My Trail-Lite has a huge rear storage compartment across the entire rear bed, it is 34" high, 42" wide and spans the width with access door on both sides. Noting that the rear chassis frame is directly under this space, I searched and found electric jacks from Husky, model HB4500 rated at 4500 lbs on Amazon for $185 each. These are design for trailer tongue use but I welded up some frame bracket and installed two of these inside the storage bay. They work great can easily lift the entire coach rear off the ground. I additionally added a remote control to replace the included up/down switches, all at a total cost of about $400. If anyone is interesting, I will include some pics of the install.
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    grimmrlg
    Explorer
    Dec 20, 2015
    rvrev2 wrote:
    Hey Rick, can you give us an update on how well your electric jacks have worked this past summer/fall?


    So far they worked out great, camped at about a dozen different sites in the last year and at most sites, I only used the rear jacks for leveling since it seems most sites were lower at the rear. As with any rear only jack solution, occasionally I had to block the front wheels to raise the front, but I only carry a third the number of blocks now. It has been really nice to use the remote control to level it as well and I have had no mechanical or electrical issues with the jacks.

    Thanks for asking!
    Rick

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