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Trailer Jack - How To Fix?
Thanks for the suggestion. What does (FWITIW mean?)
On Feb 5, 5:28 am, "den" wrote: As swsports said, F W I T I W, otherwise if there is a harbor freight outlet in your town check them out. http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/htm...iate/home.taf? acct=2001632 To find a store near you. I know they are in Az, and Cal. They have weld on, and bolt on ones. Yep the welded on ones make me feel more secure too. The bolt on for my 18ft bassboat broke. Den 48YF |
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Trailer Jack - How To Fix?
What is a roll pin? Maybe I can find a diagram on some web page.
Both the gears I could see turning when I had the top cap off, for what it's worth. David Check and see if there's a roll pin holding the top gear. you may have sheared it. You'll probably have to remove the grease to see where it's driven thru. If it is sheared drive it out and go to your local Ace hardware and get a new one. Jim --- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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Trailer Jack - How To Fix?
On Feb 5, 12:56 pm, "James" wrote:
wrote: On Feb 5, 12:47 pm, "Calif Bill" wrote: "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message ... "den" wrote in message roups.com... As swsports said, F W I T I W, otherwise if there is a harbor freight outlet in your town check them out. http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/htm...iate/home.taf? acct=2001632 To find a store near you. I know they are in Az, and Cal. They have weld on, and bolt on ones. Yep the welded on ones make me feel more secure too. The bolt on for my 18ft bassboat broke. Den 48YF Good idea. Trust your boat & trailer to a Harbor Freightjack, made from badly recycled Chinese pig iron. They can not last any shorter than the expensive ones from West Marine. They seem to make it about 2 years if you boat in salt water.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Six years for me on the Ranger and I boat in salt water all the time. Check and see if there's a roll pin holding the top gear. you may have sheared it. You'll probably have to remove the grease to see where it's driven thru. If it is sheared drive it out and go to your local Ace hardware and get a new one. Jim --- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I pulled it all apart today - once I figured out the pin on the vertical gear wasn't a hex head but actually a pin and drove it out - and realized upon seeing how it all works that, yes, it's the roll pin on the horizontal gear that was sheared. So now the problem I'm facing is that the hole for the pin is about 10% covered by the center bolt - I'll need to somehow "manually" twist that bolt to slightly lower the wheel, thus making the pin hole fully exposed. And I guess at this point, that hole has to somehow align with a slot in the jack body so that I can drive a new pin into place. I'll go to Ace tomorrow and see if I can find both pins - the pin on the vertical gear naturally fell through a crack down into the jack body when I knocked it out. So you were right, thanks, and now I know what you mean by a roll pin. David |
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