Tongue Jack broke

rbpru wrote:
Yesterday when unhitching, the tongue jack started to crank harder than usual both up and down. This morning while hitching it was the same thing, hard up, hard down. This evening while I was cranking up the tongue and truck to loosen the torsion bars to unhitch, the jack let loose and stripped it way down the shaft.

Now it will not crank up or down. I assume there is some sort of worm gear and nut in the crank tube and wondered if this can be replaced.

We have been touring for the last three plus weeks and have hitched/unhitched more than a dozen times with no issues whatever.

Fortunately this was our last stop before we head home so we were able to use the truck jack to unhitch. When we hitch up again, we will be home before we need to unhitch and I have better tools at home.

I had planned to buy and electric jack but have not done my homework yet and wondered if I can fix this unit.

Mine did the same thing and I ended up just going with a reman electric Ultra Fab tongue jack from eBay.

I think a new manual tongue jack is about $30-40.00/// not sure about repairing them.

Thanks!

Jeremiah