Outrigger removal ??
I have a Dodge pickup with a 8. 6 foot slide in camper. It has Atwood electric jacks with plug in electrical wiring. They are pretty easy to remove and weigh 35 lbs each. The rear one are a little i...
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Turbo,
I guess I'll have to introduce some counterpoint here. Our Atwood jacks are only on when at home and doing their job. The jacks are always left at home when on a trip with the TC. Why? We find ourselves in the wilder areas a lot, and would drag or scrape them off by passing rocks, curbs, trees, or an undulating trail cut into the hillside. It's so....liberating. The side view mirrors also have a less obstructed view. Ours are mechanical, so no electrical to disconnect. In the 165K miles and 18 years of driving the truck mostly with the camper on I've never needed to remove the camper or need the jacks for any reason on the road. This includes a roundtrip to AK from L.A., over 9K miles and 32 days with 2500 miles of dirt and gravel roads. We camped on a sandbar IN the Stickine River, down a faint and narrow two track. Just think of your rig a a class C with no easy way to ditch the camper part. We had an oil change in Fairbanks. No problem. Blew a tire on the lonely road to Inuvik and had to buy a new tire in Whitehorse, no problem getting a new one fitted with the camper on. How lonely? Signs announced that this was GRIZZ territory and that's where we had the flat. Jeanie stood guard while plugged the hole with 6 or 7 Safety Seal tire plugs and used my CO2 tank to quickly blow the tire back up; we were out of there. Just about anywhere you go, they are used to working on Class C's and small MoHo's, especially in the touristy areas, so are prepared for your little rolling campmobile.
jefe
I guess I'll have to introduce some counterpoint here. Our Atwood jacks are only on when at home and doing their job. The jacks are always left at home when on a trip with the TC. Why? We find ourselves in the wilder areas a lot, and would drag or scrape them off by passing rocks, curbs, trees, or an undulating trail cut into the hillside. It's so....liberating. The side view mirrors also have a less obstructed view. Ours are mechanical, so no electrical to disconnect. In the 165K miles and 18 years of driving the truck mostly with the camper on I've never needed to remove the camper or need the jacks for any reason on the road. This includes a roundtrip to AK from L.A., over 9K miles and 32 days with 2500 miles of dirt and gravel roads. We camped on a sandbar IN the Stickine River, down a faint and narrow two track. Just think of your rig a a class C with no easy way to ditch the camper part. We had an oil change in Fairbanks. No problem. Blew a tire on the lonely road to Inuvik and had to buy a new tire in Whitehorse, no problem getting a new one fitted with the camper on. How lonely? Signs announced that this was GRIZZ territory and that's where we had the flat. Jeanie stood guard while plugged the hole with 6 or 7 Safety Seal tire plugs and used my CO2 tank to quickly blow the tire back up; we were out of there. Just about anywhere you go, they are used to working on Class C's and small MoHo's, especially in the touristy areas, so are prepared for your little rolling campmobile.
jefe
