Removing electric jacks

We push our Northstar back in the truck bed, this leaves a nice storage spot for outside items, your jacks would all fit between the front of the camper and the truck box headboard...
They don't have to be jammed up as far forward as they will go... if the COG works out for you...

They are around 27 lbs each. If you had a wreck they would be rolling around with you. If you can chain them down it might work. Murphy's law, what you hope won't happen will happen.

Thought about that. Anybody ever put them in the cab behind the seat. ?

I take mine off every winter so they don't rust. I always take the wire off first because if you don't you are holding the jack while trying to remove the wire.

There is always the chance that it might need to have the camper removed and you wouldn't have the jacks. Most of the time they can work around the camper if they have a big enough lift and door.

What if you need to remove the camper to have the truck serviced, or to replace the truck, while you are on the road?

It's not unheard of. People have had catastrophic failures on their trucks while traveling, and have traded trucks rather than wait to have theirs repaired.

You just know that Murphy's Law take effect as soon as you're 2500 miles from your jacks.

DWeikert wrote:
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Happijac Truck Camper Electric Automatic Jacks

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Happijac Truck Camper Electric Automatic Jacks

Not much to it...
Just take off the three nuts on the top support piece, one bolt on the bottom support (Northstar Arrow).

Of course don't take out the lag screws that screw the support bracket to the camper frame...

Take the plate off the small electrical junction box, (two small phillips screws), take the connecter apart to separate the DC motor wiring).. insulate any bare ends if you are going to close up the box with no jack motor connected..

Pull the jack off, (they are fairly heavy)..

Once off use the link on here to take them apart for greasing and overhaul..

If you have a Northstar make sure the wiring enters that small junction box from the bottom, some were installed with the wiring entering the top of the box, this allows water to flow down the motor wiring cable, enter the box and flow into the camper innards via the hole cut in the frame for the cable entrance into the box...

One of the very few build flaws I found in our model...(2006)

...check your owner's manual on how to replace a jack which covers that. The process is described in our Arctic Fox manual, hopefully it is in yours.