Hey Polly,
Everyone should be ready to use your system.
Sooner or later, electric jacks crump out
for one reason of the other. It may be so
simple as a stripped gear ($30 for new one)
or the engine dies a final death (big bucks
for a new one).
Each of our electric jacks has a special
handle that can be inserted and used to
raise or lower the tongue, but how it is
accessed is different on each of them.
An ordinary 1930s bumper jack (worm gear type)
works in a pinch. It was especially convenient
when I backed downhill into a campsite and
couldn't get the front end up high enough
to release the hitch ball.
Polly, you brought up a good point. It does
pay to have redundancy for such times when
the things don't go according to plan.
Terry
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>How about good old elbow grease? Any old jack will work to get it up and on
>to the trailer hitch, won't it? My old jack had frozen up and I used my car
>jack to get it up and to the garage where I had a new one put on. I would
>not want to have to do it this way every time, but it works. I still use a
>non electric jack, no big deal.
>
>
>Just Plain Polly
>1964 Globe Trotter
>Colorado
Website source list for restoring/maintaining Airstreams
http://www.phrannie.org/phredex.html
http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Cabana/4868/
http://www.tompatterson.com/Streamline/Airstreamlist/Spares7.html
