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Old 03-11-2019, 04:58 PM   #1
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Lippert Jack ground clearance

I believe my 6 jacks are mounted too low and am worried about hitting while pulling into parking lots or gas stations. Pulling over speed bumps in some lots scare me. It looks like I can only move them up one bolt hole (1inch) on the two jacks in front of the axles on my 3791 feet due to one hose going through the hole in the frame and hose clearance on the slide out mechanism. My question is if I raise the two jacks in front of the axle 1 inch, am I also restricted to the 1 inch on the two in back of the axles or could they be raised even farther?
I am assuming that my two main jacks at the front on the camper are independent of the back 4 jacks and could be raised 2 inches.
 
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Old 03-11-2019, 05:20 PM   #2
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Jacks won't care. But if you raise them you should "fill the space below" with some form of blocking. The further out the jacks have to extend the less stable it is.
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Old 03-11-2019, 05:58 PM   #3
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8 years of full timing and over 80,000 miles some of those in wildlife refuges and never had an issue with a jack.
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Old 03-11-2019, 06:04 PM   #4
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As others have said, we have a lot of miles on our six point system and have never hit nor have we been concerned. Are you towing level or is the attitude of the trailer a little nose down to start with? Perhaps that is the case and the issue needs to be resolved at the kingpin and not the jacks.

ETA: Sorry DQDick, replied to the wrong post LoL!
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Old 03-11-2019, 06:19 PM   #5
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I am towing level so that’s not the problem. We are Winter Texans and looking at other units in the park it just looks like mine are mounted lower.
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Old 03-11-2019, 08:36 PM   #6
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I watch carefully, so far have never dragged those front legs.
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Old 03-12-2019, 05:58 AM   #7
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I had to raise mine (back 2 ) while blocking the road turning into my driveway.
This was on the day I brought it home, empty. It’s a right hand turn in to a pretty good slope.
Raised 2 holes and did the same on the 2 in front of the tires. Didn’t mess with landing gear. I just carry wood blocking to make up the difference.
Just make sure not to pinch a hose or cause it to rub.
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