Tailgate clearance to Lippert travel trailer tongue jack

[SnoKing]

Last August we purchased a Laredo 225MK travel trailer to commute to Arizona seasonally. I could only open the tailgate when the truck with pretty straight with the travel trailer. With input from another member on the Keystone forum I turned the head on the power tongue jack 90 degrees to the drives side.

I would like to say it was more work freeing up the wire bundle that actually turning the head 90 degrees to the drivers side.

1. You will need a 5/16-18 tread tap. The one pictured is the first one I found and it was a bottom tap and I had to go back to the bag and find one with the starting taper.

2. After freeing up the wire bundle to allow enough slack to lift the head off, removing the two 5/16 bolts the drive head lifted right off. I removed one propane tank and the drivers side equalizer saddle to get at the wiring bundle.

3. I then turned lead screw in the post 90 degree so I would be ready to line up at the new position.

4. I pushed some paper towel pieces down below where the two existing fore and aft holes needed to be tapped with 5/16-18 threads.

5. I vacuumed out the tapping debris and remove the paper towel pieces.

6. Reinstalled the head and two 5/16 bolts

As shown in the attached pictures I gained 3 1/2" which is going to be great.

 

[mfurrh55]

Good writeup and pictures

 

[NIsaacs]

Could you not turn the whole jack 1/3 of a turn, on the triangle mounts?

 

[SnoKing]

Could you not turn the whole jack 1/3 of a turn, on the triangle mounts?

Nope, the holes are not a perfect triangle. I looked at that first thing. Then took a look at the head and did not see how easy it was to turn until another member on the keystone forum did it. SnoKing

 

[Cummins12V98]

NICE!!!

Controls are where they should have been in the first place IMHO.