Lipper Electric Stabilizing Jacks - Problem
Well the first major problem with the new trailer is the rear Lippert electric stabilizing jack. On our trip to Florida, it went down one night but would not retract the next morning. Not manually ...
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Highway 4x4 wrote:
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About the jacks, will the electric motor stop before it damages itself? Perhaps a mud flap of sorts in front of it to keep road spray off the motor would help. With my old TT I used the jacks to fine tune the level but not with these.
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When my motors froze solid, they started working again when thawed. They don't seem damaged. Not sure if that answers your question though. My guess is that the struts will bend before the motor goes, but not sure. And prolly over-working them could damage them eventually. But all cases of dead motors that I've read about on the web have been due to internal corrosion from water. And sometimes that has been fixed.
