Replacing our vintage trailer jack was one of those projects we put off for way too long. Looking back, I’m not sure what was holding us back? The price for a new jack was fair. Fear? Lack of understanding about how much a new jack would improve our quality of life? I mean, it is nice to raise and lower the front end of our little vintage trailer without hearing squeak, squeak, squeakety, squeakety, squeak. We can’t be the only ones familiar with that sound? No, W-40 wasn’t enough to remedy it.
I mentioned in this post that Chris finally replaced our old jack, but I wanted to give a little update now that it has been installed for a while.
The jack we selected was the
It was really more than we needed, but we liked the top wind option. We also needed the to go with it. Vintage Trailer Supply is one of the only places where we could find a jack with a 1 7/8″ diameter. This was needed to fit the existing hole.
Did I mention that Chris carried a hack saw with us on every trip in case the old jack seized up? Did I mention the old jack would sling rust on us any time we tried to use it in the rain? Goodbye, hack saw! Goodbye, rust!
Since our vintage trailer sits low to the ground, we needed a shorter jack. This model is 5 1/2″ below the plate, which is perfect.
The only issue we had was that only one bolt hole matched up, so Chris had to drill new holes. No bid deal!
The hardest part about the install was removing the old, rusted jack. We tried to remove the bolts, but they wouldn’t budge. So, for two weeks, we sprayed them with PB Blaster every other day or so. When we had time to tackle the project again, the bolts came off with very little effort.
We are so please with our vintage trailer jack. After a year, it still works great and we recommend taking care of this simple project as soon as you can.
