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I want to paint the outer tube of my happy jacks.
If I remove the two screws at the top, so I can remove the jack motors as one piece and tie them off to the camper while I remove the jack tubes and screw assembly as one piece.
My question, "Is there any thing to watch out for or that could fall off the jacks once the motor assembly has been removed?"
My plan is to take the tubes to the paint shop, scuff them up and epoxy paint the outer tube, white.
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Bob
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Hi Bob. If your's are the 4600's like mine then you can unplug the motor so you don't have to try and wire it up to something on the camper. Just trace the cord back a little way and you'll find the plugs. My front jacks had the plugs inline and wrapped up. The rear jacks have a small plastic junction box on the outside camper wall near the jacks. Other then that when you remove the jack and take off the motor there is a small plastic part with a spring inside the top of the jack. Easy to just lift them out. Have some rags since they have grease on them. They're about the size of a big thumb. While everything is apart clean these and regrease when you put it back together. I think the web site has instructions and used to have a video about servicing the jacks that might help.
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Bob
BigJim is right. I have removed and replaced/serviced my Happijacs several times. There is a trick to reasembling them though. I have 4500s. The spring and mating assembly between the motor head nad the jack leg that connects the shaft of the leg to the motor shaft has to mate exactly. Both are square and you may need to use the manual jack wrench (if yours are powered which I assume) to rotate slightly while seating the motor head on the jack leg until they both mate (female is the spring assembly and male is the jack leg peg.)
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I have 4500s, I did not see any plug, unless it is under the cover or in the wire cover as it goes into the camper.
My camper is a 2005 and the paint really needs doing.
Thanks for the reply
Bob
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If you are going to go through all that trouble, I would Powder Coat them instaed, should last longer.
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Quote:VE7EDL on 06/08/09 04:56pm
If you are going to go through all that trouble, I would Powder Coat them instaed, should last longer.
Powder coat requires a heat of between 350 and 425, for 60 minuites or more. That would mean I would have to disassemble the jacks. I don't think I could do that easily.
Bob
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The plug is under the little plastic cover held on (usually) by 4 screws. It is a 2 pole push together plug arrangement. As for paint, I tried spray paint (rustoleum) and it doesn't hold up, especially on the front jack leg that gets hammered by bugs and sand and debris. The original job by HappiJac is pwdercoated. I have a rust pocked jack leg that will be shipped back to HappiJac for re powdercoating as it came from a bad batch a few years ago and they agreed to do it free if I paid for shipping.
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gandalf12 wrote:The plug is under the little plastic cover held on (usually) by 4 screws. It is a 2 pole push together plug arrangement. As for paint, I tried spray paint (rustoleum) and it doesn't hold up, especially on the front jack leg that gets hammered by bugs and sand and debris. The original job by HappiJac is pwdercoated. I have a rust pocked jack leg that will be shipped back to HappiJac for re powdercoating as it came from a bad batch a few years ago and they agreed to do it free if I paid for shipping.
I had 3 jacks that flaked paint off within 6-7 months of new (part of that bad batch I was told). I sent them back to Happijac when they were almost 2 years old under RMA and they "retubed" them to good as new! I paid the shipping to them.
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I have had great service from Happijac....ask for Gary. Very knowledgeable and will help you figure out how to "do it yourself" if you want to.
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Thanks for the replys
Bob
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