JT Strong Arms Arrived today

[JW_of_Opechee_S]

Got home to find my box with JT Strong Arms leaning againt the garage door. Looks like I have a weekend project in store:) Hope it goes as easy as most have said who have them. Now I won't be listening to the DW telling me I need to walk softer.

[Dandy_Dan]

dapperdan wrote:
There must be something going on with those JT Strongarms. Yesterday we were in Shipshewana Indiana killing time while our RV was being worked on in LaGrange, anyway right on the corner of HWY 5 and HWY 20 just south of Shipshewana is an Open Range plant, there had to be at least a hundred trailers sitting in their yard. Every trailer that I could see had them JT's on them! Open Range MUST be installing them as "factory installed option", I never saw so many trailers ALL with the JT's!


Dan

Dan you will find that the Open Range company although not that old is trying to be cutting edge. Ours was the 162 unit they built. Granted we had a little problem and took it back to the factory. We were treated extremely well by the tech and office folks. What we went there to get fixed was done in one shift and then they asked us if there was anything else that might be needed and after telling them of a couple of little things we camped in the unit overnight and took it back the next day and a few hours later all was fixed in addition to a couple of things we did not even know about.
I have no relationship with the company other than being a satisfied customer. I would like to look into the JT's as ours was too young at the time.

[dapperdan]

There must be something going on with those JT Strongarms. Yesterday we were in Shipshewana Indiana killing time while our RV was being worked on in LaGrange, anyway right on the corner of HWY 5 and HWY 20 just south of Shipshewana is an Open Range plant, there had to be at least a hundred trailers sitting in their yard. Every trailer that I could see had them JT's on them! Open Range MUST be installing them as "factory installed option", I never saw so many trailers ALL with the JT's!

Dan

[lakeside013104]

jerb wrote:
on a side note after you get camper level and lock the arms, raise or lower landing gear just a bit to take play out of everything!

Per the instructions that came with my JTs:

1. Level RV side to side and front to rear.
2. Lower the FRONT of RV 3/4" to 1" lower than the REAR.
3. Lower and set rear stabilizer jacks.
4. Tighten the "T" handle bolts on the 2 REAR Strong-Arm Jack Stabilizers.
5. Raise the FRONT of the RV to make it level: front to rear.
6. Tighten the "T" handle bolts on the 4 FRONT Strong-Arm Jack Stabilizers.
7. "BUMP" the FRONT electric jack switch so the jacks lift the front of the RV very slightly. This action eliminates the play (movement) at the bolts and bolt holes between the JT stabilizers and the RV frame.
8. Enjoy your Rock - Steady RV.

Lakeside

[hoopers]

goducks10 wrote:

ddschuman wrote:
Word of advice...always always remember to loosen the T's before trying to raise or lower the landing gear. Oh, the landing gear WILL still move but it puts a very bad strain on the motor! Don't ask me how I know this. Oh my, lesson learned...forgot the darn things were there. Both of us looking with confused looks on our face "why is the landing gear moving SO slow?" Yeah...that happened! Luckily, no damage was done. We realized it before we moved it too much. One of those little (Big) "oops" moments.

We LOVE our JT Strong Arms though. They make a tremendous difference!

x2 on that. I put a small piece of clear tape right above the landing gear switch and wrote with a black felt pen 'Loosen Bolts'.

x3 on that. Dont have the trailer anymore that had JT's on them, but I did the no-no two or three times.

[lee_worsdell]

I did mine in half hour. I used a impact gun bought 3\8 self taping bolts . The impact gun put them right thru the frame in no time. It was very easy

[Scott_85]

Can you please post some pics?

[goducks10]

ddschuman wrote:
Word of advice...always always remember to loosen the T's before trying to raise or lower the landing gear. Oh, the landing gear WILL still move but it puts a very bad strain on the motor! Don't ask me how I know this. Oh my, lesson learned...forgot the darn things were there. Both of us looking with confused looks on our face "why is the landing gear moving SO slow?" Yeah...that happened! Luckily, no damage was done. We realized it before we moved it too much. One of those little (Big) "oops" moments.

We LOVE our JT Strong Arms though. They make a tremendous difference!

x2 on that. I put a small piece of clear tape right above the landing gear switch and wrote with a black felt pen 'Loosen Bolts'.

[jerb]

on a side note after you get camper level and lock the arms, raise or lower landing gear just a bit to take play out of everything!

[jerb]

built my own few years back very similiar to jt design, very noticeable improvement inside the fiver especially with kids running around, as above make sure you unlock them before raising landing gear, you be amased how much much power them landing gears have, will bend stuff not to mention hard on the landing gear!

[ddschuman]

Word of advice...always always remember to loosen the T's before trying to raise or lower the landing gear. Oh, the landing gear WILL still move but it puts a very bad strain on the motor! Don't ask me how I know this. Oh my, lesson learned...forgot the darn things were there. Both of us looking with confused looks on our face "why is the landing gear moving SO slow?" Yeah...that happened! Luckily, no damage was done. We realized it before we moved it too much. One of those little (Big) "oops" moments.

We LOVE our JT Strong Arms though. They make a tremendous difference!

[tvman44]

Piece of cake, I am sure you will love them as we all do. 🙂

[larry_barnhart]

Ours was installed with bolts and nuts.

chevman

[Dwight205]

Use an impact to drive self tapping bolts.

[camp-n-family]

Put mine on last week. Pretty easy install. Didn't really even use the instructions, it was that easy. Very happy with the results. Took out 95% of the movement, the other 5% is just me trying to see if it will move 🙂