Upgrading to an electric tongue jack
How do you size a tongue jack? I have a 2010 Shadow Cruiser 195wbs. Dry -3,400 # GVWR -5,600# Tongue -400# I've found jacks rated at 2,500 to 4,500# ? ? ?
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DutchmenSport wrote:
You also want to get one with the longest shaft possible.
I'd disagree. Any tongue jack sitting at maximum extension won't be as stable as one extended just part way, which in turn means using a stack of some sort anyway. The LCI that came with my current trailer has an 18" extension but whether I'm parking it on my significantly sloped driveway ...
... or even a relatively flat campsite I still use a stack under the tongue jack for maximum stability ...
... so a tongue jack with any more than 18" extension wouldn't be of any advantage anyway. Only when the trailer is parked on a tongue high campsite would I not use a stack, replacing it instead with a single piece of 3/4" plywood which results in the tongue jack being only partly extended, thereby offering maximum stability.
