Three times it has failed and that's enough.
The
front jack on the door side of the fifth wheel has failed again. It
could have been worse and failed as I was on the road going somewhere
but in fact it failed as I was getting ready to hook up in Las Vegas
yesterday morning.
I
had raised the front of the trailer almost enough to back the truck
under it when “BANG” it let go. There was nothing I could do but
continue to raise the front with the remaining jack and get the truck
under it and hook up.
After
we arrived at Plamosa Road near Quartzsite, AZ I used a bottle jack
on that side along with the jack on the other side to raise the RV
enough to get the truck unhooked and then slowly lowered the
remaining jack and the bottle jack a little at time until the trailer
was level.
This
morning I went into Quartzsite to RV Lifestyles (where I bought the
RV in 2005) and asked if they had a whole new jack assembly. I am
tired of fixing the old one. They did have one on hand if it was 33
inches long. I came back to the RV and measured it and it was 33
inches so called them back to arrange an appointment for Friday
morning.
I
will hook up the RV late Thursday afternoon so I am ready to go
Friday morning.
We
had a nice day yesterday and today with temperatures in the mid 60's
but was it cold this morning. Frost on everything when I got up with
the internal temperature at 39 degrees in the RV. I don't run the
heater at night but may need to if this continues.
Today
was a lazy day with camp chores although I haven't set up much as I
need to take things down for Friday. I did empty all the front
compartments on the RV as one of them needs to be partially removed
to allow access to the jack.
Tomorrow
we will go to town to scope things out. There a quite a few people in
this area already so it may be a big year for the vendors.
Sorry there are no photos. Maybe next time. All my photos are on my new Samsung S6 phone and I have had trouble getting them onto the PC.
