Avion truck campers - Hundreds of photos
Without going into too much painful detail, we had a mishap several week-ends ago. While working with sand bag crews on the Mississippi River, the truck and camper fell into the flood waters as a road...
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I finally rebuilt my La Jaqa jacks that came with my Avion C-11.
They turned out real nice but they weren't that bad considering that they were setting outside for close to 45 years. They just took some cleaning and sanding, then some paint to make them look new.
The rebuild looks really good and I need to do mine also but ran into a slight problem. wondering if anyone else has solution-- The LaJac uses a small, thin thrust bearing between the stand shaft housing and the bottom of the pinion gear (that the handle's gear mates against). Two of the three in my set are failed and I can't find a replacement. I have resorted to stacking some flat bearing washers, greased liberally to serve as lubrication for now but requires frequant re-lub. Any better ideas? I can find thrust bearings eith 1"id but not the small enough od and/or not correct thickness to have two pinion gears mate correctly. The od is critical to allow clearance of side on crank's pinion gear.
They turned out real nice but they weren't that bad considering that they were setting outside for close to 45 years. They just took some cleaning and sanding, then some paint to make them look new.
The rebuild looks really good and I need to do mine also but ran into a slight problem. wondering if anyone else has solution-- The LaJac uses a small, thin thrust bearing between the stand shaft housing and the bottom of the pinion gear (that the handle's gear mates against). Two of the three in my set are failed and I can't find a replacement. I have resorted to stacking some flat bearing washers, greased liberally to serve as lubrication for now but requires frequant re-lub. Any better ideas? I can find thrust bearings eith 1"id but not the small enough od and/or not correct thickness to have two pinion gears mate correctly. The od is critical to allow clearance of side on crank's pinion gear.
