Using your truck camper jacks

bobndot wrote:

69 Avion wrote:
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My jacks are manual, so I never thought about having to rely on electronics to get the camper back on the truck. I would hate to think of some of the places I have been and not be able to get the camper back on the truck.

I hear that , that's why i suggest to people that do that, to have some kind of backup plan or simply think twice about doing it .
Sometimes people raise the camper off the truck to change a flat tire.
For those who tow a boat or trailer, you could always strap the trailer tongue jack to the dead camper jack if you had to . Use blocks of wood for extra lift and H.D. plumbing straps to attach it.


On electric jacks,the tubes can bind from dirt and/or road salt , that happened the first 2x . I would imagine that could happen on manual jacks as well. Both times i tried to use the hand crank with no luck. I was told by the jack mfg. that i snapped the shear pin using the crank to force the tubes to work , making the jack useless. I explained to them the jack was kinda useless without trying to use the hand-crank.
The third time it was the motor saying "ba-bye now" . I don't remember any kind of warning from the jack motor, it just died in the middle of trying to unload it to have a delamination repair made. The dealer just swapped the motor and we con't unloading .
I guess the jack got tired of lifting a waterlogged camper . :)