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cummins2014
Jul 13, 2017Explorer
Old-Biscuit wrote:
YES....
You have 'over-extended' the driving leg and it is causing slipping between the 2 bevel gears (1 driven by motor/gear box and 1 that drives the screw shaft)
Stop before you wear teeth or break teeth on bevel gears (flip sheet metal cover off to see them)
With truck hitched up...
Leave inner leg fully retracted
Run outer leg to full retract...click noise
Then use RED paint and mark a stripe 1 inch lower so when you extend leg and see red STOP
When unhitching you may need to drop inner leg more so you can raise pin box high enough to unhitch W/O over-extending outer driven leg
Although you may be right ,in my experience if over extended they start to slow and then just bind up if not stopped . At least on mine that has been the case . Never noticed any clicking. You would thing at that point you would lose some teeth
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