Well Jim, it's true. You must have a very big bootied camper because no matter what I did, I couldn't get the camper to stand on 2 rears and 1 front jack. The weight kept shifting forward.
I was able to get the camper on the truck (yay!). It was panic-inducing but I did it. I didn't have a hi-lift jack (though I did just order one along with two new 4800 happijacs to replace the two fronts) so I used a car jack and a long piece of lumber to jack up that front corner. Got the bad jack off. Was going to swap with a rear but I REEEALLY did not like the idea of the camper being on 3 jacks. So I fiddled with the jack gears a bit and was able to get them to turn, not with the manual crank (that pin had broke) but I used a ratchet coming in from the top. I wasn't able to lift it or anything with this method but once I jacked it up to the right height using the 3 good jacks + the car jack, I was able to lower the leg down enough so that it was at the right height. Then removed the car jack so that I could back my truck in (dually would have hit the jack). Once the truck was backed in to the right spot, I put the car jack + beam back in place and retracted the bad jack leg with ratchet method and slowly lowered with the 3 good jacks + car jack.
Woof! What a process but I got it on there. I feel SO much better. So yes, I just ordered two new 4800s for the front + 2 motors. Hoping the rears will last me awhile longer but we will see.
Thanks to everyone for all the quick replies. You guys always save the day.
