The worst rig you ever had
Having always had older campers for about 30 years, I've dealt with all sorts of screwy old jack types and flexy campers.
I'll start out with the worst truck/camper setup I ever had.
I was a dumb kid with a '67 Chevy 3/4 ton with dual rear wheels bolted on the back with some janky kit. The wheel studs would spin with the lug nuts when you tried to loosen or tighten them. The only way to get the wheels off was to unbolt the axles and slide the whole axle/brake drum/wheel pair out and hold the studs from behind with a socket. Then put it all back on the same way.
I had this old camper, no dually swing-out brackets, and to load or unload I had to remove the rear wheels, then bolt a single wheel back on, drive past the jacks, then repeat the whole process to put the wheels back on. The jacks themselves were made of square tube; you used a portable bottle jack that fit into a tab at the top and had a piece of steel rod welded to the bottom that poked into holes in the jack legs. You jacked it up a few holes, pinned it, then did it again until you got all four jacked up. Same to get it back down. Some of the holes were torn out and you had to be sure to skip them. The good holes were tearing...
It used to take about all day, and that's when I was barely 20 and full of energy.
Oh, and then you could barely drive because the extra dually wheels stuck out of the fenders and had hardly any clearance, and would scrape if you didn't CRAWL around every corner.
I'll start out with the worst truck/camper setup I ever had.
I was a dumb kid with a '67 Chevy 3/4 ton with dual rear wheels bolted on the back with some janky kit. The wheel studs would spin with the lug nuts when you tried to loosen or tighten them. The only way to get the wheels off was to unbolt the axles and slide the whole axle/brake drum/wheel pair out and hold the studs from behind with a socket. Then put it all back on the same way.
I had this old camper, no dually swing-out brackets, and to load or unload I had to remove the rear wheels, then bolt a single wheel back on, drive past the jacks, then repeat the whole process to put the wheels back on. The jacks themselves were made of square tube; you used a portable bottle jack that fit into a tab at the top and had a piece of steel rod welded to the bottom that poked into holes in the jack legs. You jacked it up a few holes, pinned it, then did it again until you got all four jacked up. Same to get it back down. Some of the holes were torn out and you had to be sure to skip them. The good holes were tearing...
It used to take about all day, and that's when I was barely 20 and full of energy.
Oh, and then you could barely drive because the extra dually wheels stuck out of the fenders and had hardly any clearance, and would scrape if you didn't CRAWL around every corner.
