Bought 2007 Arctic Fox 1150

The electric jacks were part of the "mandatory option package". Our '05 has happiJac. Newer units have Rieco.

If the unit you're looking has manual jack, it may be the previous owner didn't want to spend the money to replace bad power heads. Wiring should still be there but who knows.

Manual jacks aren't too bad to use if you keep the TC about truck bed height when it's off the truck.

Is it in good shape or "needs tlc". I can't imagine manual jacks in a camper that size. Who would do that? Someone who's broke and has a pos camper. My 2c.
Find one with electric jacks, they all have them, unless it's a too good to pass up deal.

Thanks for the quick responses. He is wanting $6-8000 for the camper. He bought it as a package deal because he wanted the truck and is now trying to sell the camper. Discovered it is not a 990 but an 1150. I can't find anything on the 2007 models online, so I wasn't sure if the jacks were electric or not. We want to switch back to the Happijacks. Looks to be in pretty good shape but won't know for sure until we see it. We can see some damage at the bottom of one of the front corners of the base (he told us he hit the truck when he took it off), but rest looks to be in good shape. With the aluminum structure, that doesn't scare us too much. Anything else we should know?

I just looked at the 2007 AF camper brochure and manual Happi Jacks were standard, but the camper is wired for electric jacks. I would check the cab over filon for delamination.

We went and looked at the unit tonight. It was raining and has for the last couple of days. There are a couple of damp areas in the very front of the unit but the filon and the paneling inside are solid. The paneling inside is dry across the front but you can tell that there was a leak at one time. No delamination and solid now. We decided to buy the unit for $6500 and the gentleman is delivering it this weekend so we can set up our truck for it. He is throwing in everything he has for the camper, including the hitch extension, all of the old jacks (electric, but not working) and the tie downs. I found all of the manuals in a cabinet with every manual in a portable file folder. We think we are getting a pretty good deal. Now to figure out how the satellite on the roof works.

We have a 2006 1150 we bought new. The main thing I would look for is water intrusion. Especially around the skylight in the shower and the front cap seam on the roof. Both are not sealed well from the factory and leaked on ours since almost new. The skylight over the shower has no curb and any crack in the caulking will allow water straight in. Really crappy design.

Other than that the main structure of the camper has held up well. I am typing this in the camper now near the Washington border headed for Alaska. We near full time our camper and it works well for us.

agteacher wrote:
We went and looked at the unit tonight. It was raining and has for the last couple of days. There are a couple of damp areas in the very front of the unit but the filon and the paneling inside are solid. .......

Whoa! Damp areas just did not start overnight.

Nice buy! For $6500 you can do a lot of work and still have less into it than retail price.
Good luck and enjoy.

Wow, $6500 is cheap! I'd be on the edge to sell mine for another 10k on top of that, and it's an '06.
So mine has the electric jacks and if I swapped over to manual, there is really no way that you could mask where the wiring comes through the wall, so I think that if it ever had electric jacks or if it's wired you could easily tell. Take a look in the plumbing door on the driver side rear compartment and you should see the wiring.
Like others have said, take a look around the bathroom skylight, front roof seam and front clearance lights...I haven't experienced any leaks on mine.

"I know about water damage with them, but are there any specific locations to double check on this model?"


Everywhere, If you do have aluminum framing then I think you did well, I had a 2000 (in sig) and it had a soft corner (wood) where the valve gates are but check every corner, door, cabinet and window, high and low.

In ours there was a phone jack style of a corded remote control (also in the cabinet with the valve gates?), and if I let it sit for more than a minute I had to unplug and plug back in to remote to get the signal but for a camper this size you really want power jacks IMHO so hopefully you have a jack that looks like you could plug a phone into it.

You can get a complete power jack system that is wireless remote, not giving those away but well worth having.

Good luck!