Ease of taking off a TC
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I did own small 60's vintage TC twenty years ago so I do know a "little" about them. Basically all that I know about the newer ones is that they are much nicer. My...
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I may have the easiest now, but when I was early-20-something I had the worst ever!!
I had a '67 Chevy 3/4 ton with dual rear wheels added, and a '67 Security 10-footer.
The jacks were square-tube with a series of holes. There was a bracket at the top you put the plunger of a bottle jack into. A rod on the bottom of the bottle jack went into one of the holes in the jack leg. You pumped one up a couple holes, stuck a pin in, removed the bottle jack and went to the next jack.
But the really crazy part... I had no swing-out hinges for the front jacks to clear the duals. I had to remove the outer wheels to back in or out of the camper.
The add-on dual rear wheel kit was a spacer and the wheel studs were supposed to press in tight but it was all gouged out and the studs would spin in it.
The only way to remove the wheels was to first remove the axle, slide the whole axle/brake drum/dual wheel set out (which also meant loosening the brake adjusters), hold the studs from the inside of the drum with a socket while removing the lug nuts, putting it all back together minus the outer wheels, backing under the camper past the front jacks, then repeating the whole process on each side to put the outers back on.
Do all of that again to take camper off.
I was young, crazy, and had more energy than brains or money...
I had a '67 Chevy 3/4 ton with dual rear wheels added, and a '67 Security 10-footer.
The jacks were square-tube with a series of holes. There was a bracket at the top you put the plunger of a bottle jack into. A rod on the bottom of the bottle jack went into one of the holes in the jack leg. You pumped one up a couple holes, stuck a pin in, removed the bottle jack and went to the next jack.
But the really crazy part... I had no swing-out hinges for the front jacks to clear the duals. I had to remove the outer wheels to back in or out of the camper.
The add-on dual rear wheel kit was a spacer and the wheel studs were supposed to press in tight but it was all gouged out and the studs would spin in it.
The only way to remove the wheels was to first remove the axle, slide the whole axle/brake drum/dual wheel set out (which also meant loosening the brake adjusters), hold the studs from the inside of the drum with a socket while removing the lug nuts, putting it all back together minus the outer wheels, backing under the camper past the front jacks, then repeating the whole process on each side to put the outers back on.
Do all of that again to take camper off.
I was young, crazy, and had more energy than brains or money...
