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Tennessee_Nomad
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Jan 03, 2014

Question about electric tongue jack installation

My new tongue jack came today and I have a question. I gather that I have to prop up the camper at the a-frame in order to get the old manual jack off and get the new electric one installed. I have so...
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Sprink-Fitter
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Jan 03, 2014
the bear II wrote:
How about hitching it up to the tow vehicle and then remove the old jack.

Instead of cinder blocks use a stack of 2X4s stacked log cabin style

Or go to a local auto store and get a jack stand



DanKirk wrote:
I just hooked mine up to the truck when I installed our jack.


That is how we did it, just put it on the hitch on the truck.

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