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leenabug
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Apr 03, 2013

straight line winds moved camper, must have twisted jack

We had our TT parked at a friends barn, 2 hrs away, where my husband was using it as a "home base" for an out of town job he was working on. He came home for 2 weeks and when he went back, the camper appeared to have been slightly "tisted/shifted" from its original position. They had had a bad storm with straight line winds. The jacks were out of placement and in the mud. He and my dad were trying to get it repositioned and the jacks back on their "pads". When they cranked the tongue jack, it broke and the tongue crashed down. They used a car jack to get the camper set back up and realigned and everything seems to be ok and working fine. Except now of course, we need to replace the tongue jack. As I am searching online for a jack, I am overwhelmed by all the pictures, none of which look like ours. How do I know what I need? I dont see anything that tells me a type or size. I have a 2006 Keystone Hornet 27B
  • Sounds like a manual crank tongue jack. time to upgrade to a power tongue jack! anything with a 5000lb lifting capacity. manual or power.
  • All the jacks fit a standard hole in the trailer. Just go to any RV dealer and pick one up, or even on line they all will fit the standard hole and the bolts will line up. It is an easy replacement job.
  • Here is all I know: its a side crank, triangle plate, 3 bolts. Its says the camper weighs 5200lbs with a carrying capacity of 2400lbs, the camper is 28' long. The specs said something like tongue:660, but I dont know what that means.
  • I meant "twisted", not "tisted". Also, do any of you have websites or places that you like to get parts at? I've looked on ebay, craigslist, & etrailor.com. I am getting ready to call Camping World and a rv salvage dealer that I've dealt with. Thats all the places I can think to look. However, I dont feel that I even know what to tell them I looking for yet, mainly because I dont know what size jack I need. 4 ton? 6 ton? WOuld u buy new or is used ok?
  • There are a few RV salvage yards around where you might find a used tongue jack cheaper. You might want to get the old one for comparison...if you can.