How Wide is a Dually? Always Need Dually Jacks?
Wondering if you can just squeeze by without the swing-outs. Are duallies all the same width no matter what brand or year? Thanks.
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Good point about the jack feet. I had my jacks on concrete blocks so they had less "travel" to do, and also to give them wider feet. This meant I had to squeeze past the blocks low down with my SRW and the 90 inch spacing between jacks--except at the bottom where it was much less spacing.
My "belly bars" are receivers with the parts that stick out with the chains on them inserted into the receivers and bolted. I had to put them in after sliding in the camper and sitting it down on the truck because the blocks were in the way of the belly bar receivers.
The buyer's truck had belly bars that stuck out already a little with the chain holders on the ends. So he got half way in and couldn't get past the blocks. Couldn't shift the blocks with the camper jacks on them. Had to start over and re-sit the camper on the saw horses to raise the jacks off the blocks and lower the jacks to the ground then raise the camper and do the slide in.
So it must be very difficult with a dually and belly bars that stick out like his did. The two piece kind like mine allows for blocks under the jack feet if you need to do that.
My "belly bars" are receivers with the parts that stick out with the chains on them inserted into the receivers and bolted. I had to put them in after sliding in the camper and sitting it down on the truck because the blocks were in the way of the belly bar receivers.
The buyer's truck had belly bars that stuck out already a little with the chain holders on the ends. So he got half way in and couldn't get past the blocks. Couldn't shift the blocks with the camper jacks on them. Had to start over and re-sit the camper on the saw horses to raise the jacks off the blocks and lower the jacks to the ground then raise the camper and do the slide in.
So it must be very difficult with a dually and belly bars that stick out like his did. The two piece kind like mine allows for blocks under the jack feet if you need to do that.
