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Wagonqueen_Truc's avatar
Wagonqueen_Truc
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Sep 11, 2015

Need advice on jack extenders for the old style jacks

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This is a 1960 ish Holiday Rambler MotoVan. It is a truck camper with a tag axle. It has only 1 set of front jacks. I have a ford 350 dually truck. Obviously I can not get this camper around the dually fenders. I had custom made jack extenders made for my Amerigo (current TC) Camper to extend the original jacks to work with my truck. They were made in Arkansas and were very pricey. My question is... Are there any extenders out there that I can purchase made for these old style ( non corner) jacks do I can get this thing moved? I really don't want to take my Amerigo jacks off to use for this camper. And regardless I will need another set once this MotoVan is refurbished and ready to camp.
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  • JoeChiOhki's avatar
    JoeChiOhki
    Explorer II
    Sep 13, 2015
    Wagonqueen Truckster wrote:
    JoeChiOhki wrote:
    For short term, suicide jacks could be employed to raise the front.

    Does it come with the special hitching assembly to attach it to the truck? Those, like the Born Free's, had a special attachment hitch that went on the rear of the truck.


    Good point. I don't know. Gonna have to look Ito that.


    Also, you could always do like the guy I'm buying my Amerigo from and convert the Amerigo to front corner jacks with regular swing outs (he made some brackets that bolt through the corner and under the wing) and then use your existing ones for the motovan.

    Another loading method would be to get three of those no-slip heavy duty piano dollys and put then on a sheet of plywood in the bed of your truck.

    Back the truck under as far as you can, then lower onto the the dollys and cribbing, remove the jacks, then back up so more, using the dollies to roll the camper forward into the bed until its past the fenders, then reattach the jacks.

    Don't know if the motovan's jacks are a loop like the Born free than actually clamped in place to couple of hooks on the underside of the truck frame.
  • Wagonqueen_Truc's avatar
    Wagonqueen_Truc
    Explorer
    Sep 13, 2015
    JoeChiOhki wrote:
    For short term, suicide jacks could be employed to raise the front.

    Does it come with the special hitching assembly to attach it to the truck? Those, like the Born Free's, had a special attachment hitch that went on the rear of the truck.


    Good point. I don't know. Gonna have to look Ito that.
  • JoeChiOhki's avatar
    JoeChiOhki
    Explorer II
    Sep 12, 2015
    For short term, suicide jacks could be employed to raise the front.

    Does it come with the special hitching assembly to attach it to the truck? Those, like the Born Free's, had a special attachment hitch that went on the rear of the truck.
  • ticki2's avatar
    ticki2
    Explorer
    Sep 11, 2015
    Here are some I made for my flatbed DRW . I needed both height and width , if you don't need the height they an be made shorter . I do remove them for travel .





    A welding shop should be able to make them up pretty reasonable .


    Interesting old Motorvan

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