Journey with Confidence RV GPS App RV Trip Planner RV LIFE Campground Reviews RV Maintenance Take a Speed Test Free 7 Day Trial ×
Jayco RV Owners Forum
 


Reply
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
 
Old 03-26-2012, 08:50 PM   #21
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Fraser Valley British Columbia
Posts: 767
Ordering electric jack soon, I use my manual jack to hook up my hitch, easier and safer. I am bringing the cordless drill too.
__________________
2010 Jayco Eagle Superlite 256 RKS
2008 Dodge Ram 3500 Cummins

66 nights in 2016
61 nights in 2015
Derek700 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-08-2012, 09:03 PM   #22
Senior Member
 
Jim_in_WA's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Richmond HIll
Posts: 132
Continuing with the posts, the electric jack is AWESOME. Lifts EVERYTHING with ease. Hook up is a snap. So glad it was an option.
__________________
2018 Greyhawk 30XP Prestige
2019 Ford Raptor SCREW in beautiful Velocity Blue
2014 Harley Ultra Limited
Jim_in_WA is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-08-2012, 11:22 PM   #23
Member
 
imaynard's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Houma, LA
Posts: 86
Grantsoo,
don't know if you picked up your camper yet or not, but some food for thought that I didn't know about and found out the hard way. Make sure you have some wood blocks or some leveling blocks available to put under the tongue jack. I didn't have any and ran out of room on my jack before I was able to remove my arms for my weight distribution hitch. When I did my walk thru with my dealer, he had some wood blocks, and I never thought about needing some of my own until I was back home trying to un-hitch.
__________________
2013 Eagle Premier 365 BHS
2012 F-250 FX4 Lariat 6.7 Powerstroke Turbo Diesel
5500# Firestone Airbags
imaynard is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-09-2012, 04:49 AM   #24
Senior Member
 
Quahog's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Houston
Posts: 2,526
This might help others. When I needed blocks, I went down to Home Depot. They had a huge bin full of cut off ends of 2x6's and 2x8's near the in-store saw. Each cut off end was maybe a foot long so I asked the guy working there about them. He told me to take as many as I wanted since they were going to throw them out anyway. I left with enough to handle my front jack and all four stabilizers too.
__________________
Mike, Sue, Sissy and Little Man

2015 Ford F350 Lariat FX4 6.7 CC DRW
2015 Eagle Premier 351RSTS

Quahog is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 04-09-2012, 06:08 AM   #25
Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 75
Quote:
Originally Posted by imaynard View Post
Grantsoo,
don't know if you picked up your camper yet or not, but some food for thought that I didn't know about and found out the hard way. Make sure you have some wood blocks or some leveling blocks available to put under the tongue jack. I didn't have any and ran out of room on my jack before I was able to remove my arms for my weight distribution hitch. When I did my walk thru with my dealer, he had some wood blocks, and I never thought about needing some of my own until I was back home trying to un-hitch.
I hear your problem. When I hooked up at the dealer the TT was in the garage and the TV was sloped down outside so the hitch was way up in the air. He went and cut 4 small pieces of 2x4 which didn't get us close. Then he went a got a short piece of 4x4, which just got us there. Thinking of unhooking, I asked if I could snag the 2x4's and he threw in the 4x4 as well. Was I ever glad I did! He told be the Suburban sits higher than others on the back end anyway so I would need extra jack base height.

Grant
__________________
Have owned: 74 Parkland TT, 78 23ft Terry Taurus,
02 31' Itasca Class C, 12 Jayflight 26RLS
Now all gone, hotels only, sure miss it!
grantsoo is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are Off
Pingbacks are Off
Refbacks are Off


» Featured Campgrounds

Reviews provided by

Powered by vBadvanced CMPS v3.2.3
Disclaimer:

This website is not affiliated with or endorsed by Jayco, Inc. or any of its affiliates. This is an independent, unofficial site.


All times are GMT -6. The time now is 02:42 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.8 Beta 1
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
Copyright 2002-2016 Social Knowledge, LLC All Rights Reserved.