Electric power jack-any suggestions?

SoundGuy wrote:
The LCI tongue jack that came with our Coachmen Freedom Express worked fine but the head was huge and interfered with the tailgate on our Avalanche. I replaced it with an UltraFab 3502 as I've owned one before and liked the fact the base plate has extra holes, allowing the tongue jack to be oriented so the head is facing exactly 90 degrees to the side rather than 120 degrees as is the case with pretty well every other tongue jack. Barkers and pretty well every other competing brand have a plastic head that will become brittle and discolour from exposure to the sun so I much prefer an all metal head. Be aware though that eBay and Amazon are both filled with cheap lookalikes that are not authentic UltraFab tongue jacks.

Chuck_thehammer wrote:
that is something... the harbor freight looks just like this one... except for the extra holes to mount.

That Harbor Freight version is a Chinese knockoff of the authentic UltraFab ... hard to say just how different the internal parts may be but I wanted guaranteed reliability so I made sure I purchased an UltraFab even though it cost more. The current version of UF 3502 not only has multiple holes in the base plate that allow a variety of mounting positions but it also has a zerk fitting on the shaft so the internal mechanism can be greased effectively without disassembling the jack ... I suspect the knockoffs don't have this feature either. As a point of interest, I chose an UltraFab this second time around because the original I owned a few years ago would allow rotating of the head 180 degress by simply removing the four head bolts. I discovered later (and confirmed by email with UltraFab) that the internal design of this jack has been changed so this is now not nearly as easy to do with the newest version ... ergo, the reason they've added additional holes to the base plate so the entire jack can easily be rotated.