Cable work on a 1978 Jayco

THe mechanism is pretty simple and I bough a pile of cable and a swage tool (any excuse to get another tool)

But I'm thinking there might be a method I should know about as I put it back together.

It's like truing a bike wheel. You might have the tool and understand the concept but if someone doesn't show you how it looks you will probably waste a lot of time.

Take a look at popup parts

http://www.popupparts.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=4_1932_1933

I worked on my son in laws older Jayco and was able to see diagrams from an on line search and names of the parts we needed. One of his cables jumped off the pulley and then cut through the base of the pulley. It was challenging but we did it.

Good luck

Ok, that was easy. I removed some panel and found snagged and broken cables.

And the heavy cable on the crank is also mutilated.


Any advice going forward? I suppose could buy a kit from a vendor or just pick up some cable at Tractor Supply.

Is there a better recommended option?

stainless?

thanks

Yes you have to work them inside and yes you will need to remove panels. My guess is that you you have snagged cables that need to be rerouted. It's possible you can reuse them, I was able to on an old '72 Jayco pop-up I had. If not you should be able to buy new ones online. If you can get at one of the front lifts you'll be able to see how it works and maybe figure what's wrong with the back ones.

K Charles wrote:
Jayco used an L&D lift system, the 3 stage lift posts were the same from 1968 to the mid 90s, most of the rest of the lift was all the same.
The OP doesn't want to find the model or look up and read the manual, maybe he doesn't really want to do the job.

What has happened to this forum?

I've been here asking and answering questions since before facebook, smartphones and youtube videos were a thing.

My questions were specific to the kind of answers you get when you ask a forum.

Your info about the year-range of that system was very helpful and would have been difficult to glean from a google search

I could not find a video specific to my year. Didn't figure the model would make much difference in 1978.

I've been a threat to anything with moving parts for about 50 years so I really wasn't asking for handholding just some general direction.

I just went back and looked at the last few posting here. I didn't see any questions that could not have been answered by google.

The idea of a forum (among other things) is to have a community in which people can judge the values of someone's input against an informal peer review and the individuals history for accuracy.

You can't google that.

Jayco used an L&D lift system, the 3 stage lift posts were the same from 1968 to the mid 90s, most of the rest of the lift was all the same.
The OP doesn't want to find the model or look up and read the manual, maybe he doesn't really want to do the job.

hertfordnc wrote:

K Charles wrote:
Search the net for jayco cable repair and watch a few of the many videos.

I did that first. Didn't like the results and no one is working on one as old as mine.

And isn't that what forums are for? So old guys can answer the same questions over and over again?

Don't you love it when you ask a question and someone who doesn't have the answer tells you to surf the net !!!

Guy

K Charles wrote:
Search the net for jayco cable repair and watch a few of the many videos.

I did that first. Didn't like the results and no one is working on one as old as mine.

And isn't that what forums are for? So old guys can answer the same questions over and over again?

Search the net for jayco cable repair and watch a few of the many videos.