Mechanical Camper Jacks
This video covers How To Use the Mechanical Camper Jacks on a Four Wheel Pop-Up Truck Camper.
Video Transcription
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this here is the mechanical camper Jax
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for customers that want to take the
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camper on and off their truck on a
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regular basis if you’re leaving the
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camper on full-time you won’t need to
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order Jax the jack bracket this little
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white Jack racket over here is attached
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to all of the campers jack brackets
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standard mechanical can’t reject for the
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four-corners is an option
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these are simple to use they three bolts
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to bolt that on set it on put your bolts
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in there and tighten them down you can
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travel with these Jack’s on you can
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travel with the Jack’s off we usually
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recommend loading the camper securing
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your tie-downs turnbuckles plugging the
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camper in and leaving your Jack’s at
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home having these four Jack’s hanging
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off the side of the camper can be a snag
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factor sometimes for rocks on trails
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trees or other cars parked next to you
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can sometimes will clip them to use them
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they come with a crank handle actually
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come with to crank handles and a drill
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bit crank handle we use sometimes just
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to get it started and crank it down by
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hand it’s just very slow it’s easy to do
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it’s not a lot of pressure but it’s slow
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to make this Jack go down here for that
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reason
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that’s where the drill bit comes in and
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we’ll take a cordless drill put our
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drill bit in there it will run those up
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and down when I’m doing that the
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distance making this Jack go all the way
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to the ground we use the speed setting
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makes it very fast and then when we’re
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starting to lift the entire weight of
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the camper we’ll switch the gear more to
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the torque setting so it can do the
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heavy lifting without putting strain on
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the drill motor when you want to set the
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camper back down into the truck we just
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reverse that lower that down and we’ll
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do the rest of the quick lifting with
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the faster setting but what we do before
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we get to the end of the jack here
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before this foot goes all the way up
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into the edge of the the rest of the
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jack mechanism we slow down
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so we’ll just go nice and slow the last
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four or five six turns the reason for
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that is if you’re going too fast and
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that thing stops it goes all the way to
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the end
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sometimes your your drill will will jerk
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out of your hands hit your shoulder so
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that last little bit you can just do
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that by hand when the jack is all the
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way up drill bits off I usually take a
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crank handle I’ll check my foot here if
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it’s rattling it’s too loose this can
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actually rattle down all the way to the
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ground on washboard roads if you’re
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traveling with your jacks on
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we take these off most of the time but
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if you’re going to leave them on go
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ahead and just put your little crank
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handle on here and then figure out the
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right direction and tighten it down and
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I’m doing super tight just snugging it
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down a little bit
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tightens that gear up tightens the foot
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up
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no more rattle that jacks nice and firm
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now this isn’t gonna rattle down it’s
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locked
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I didn’t over tighten it but I did snug
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it down then we put the handles away
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hope that helps
