Time to replace front electric Jack
My 7 year old electric Jack will barely lift my trailer, and it makes a grinding popping sound. The battery is good and it’s plugged into a 50amp outlet. So that said, I’m going to start hittin...
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Gdetrailer wrote:Camper445 wrote:Gdetrailer wrote:
Modern problems.
Makes me glad that I have a 40yr old trailer with original standard manual jack and it still works..
Wondering why you do not reply to these threads using stamps and the USPS. :?
Stamps and USPS might be a bit faster and more reliable than this forum software which "came over on the Mayflower" :B
Name any electric tongue jack brand that lasts more than 10 yrs..
Pretty much all of them use cheap plastic gears which break and fail, water and moisture gets into the motor and switches causing it to fail or short, fuses blow. Very few if any electric jacks now days give you a manual option so when it breaks, you will be stuck somewhere trying to figure out how to get the tongue up or down..
A plain manual tongue jack as long as you keep it greased will easily outlive the life of your trailer several times over.. And by the way some manual tongue jacks can be easily adapted to your favorite cordless drill at a far lower cost than a new electric jack.
Simplicity sometimes trumps "technology" when it comes to long life and reliability.
The barker ball screw on my 2004 trailer is still working fine and get's used probably 100+ times/year.
The barker ball screw on my 2010 trailer is still working fine and has to lift 1500lbs + and again gets used 100+ times/year.
The Atwood acme screw jack on my sons work trailer get's used almost every week, was installed in 2010 and is still working fine.
In the 25+ years we've been trailer camping along with many friends I've never encountered a case with a fellow camper where an electric tongue jack failed. Nor have I had any fail.
