Jacking up the coach at the Bogies

[adolph santorine]

I’ve always let the air pressure out of the bags before jacking the coach up at the bogies.

A number of folks I know don’t do this.

Am I adding an unnecessary step?

What do you do?

Thanks.

Dolph

DE AD0LF

Wheeling, West Virginia

1977 26’ ex-PalmBeach
Howell EFI & EBL, Reaction Arms, Manny Transmission

“The Aluminum and Fiberglass Mistress"

 

[jim kanomata1]

Dolph,
Your procedure helps raise the tires easier as the shocks will influence
the position.
One can also slide in steel plates through the boggie housing ad support
the arms and require less raising of the coach. Be sure to remove the plate.
I make sure in our shop by tying on bright colored ribbon .
on them.

On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 10:00 AM Dolph Santorine via Gmclist <

> I’ve always let the air pressure out of the bags before jacking the coach
> up at the bogies.
>
> A number of folks I know don’t do this.
>
> Am I adding an unnecessary step?
>
> What do you do?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Dolph
>
> DE AD0LF
>
> Wheeling, West Virginia
>
> 1977 26’ ex-PalmBeach
> Howell EFI & EBL, Reaction Arms, Manny Transmission
>
> “The Aluminum and Fiberglass Mistress"
>
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[johnny]

I've a plate cut from a leaf spring which fits under the bogies, the arch is just right for easy in and out. I set a bottle jak under the center of
the bogie mount and take a strain, then insert the plate and let the air out of the bag and jack it up, My jack bottom is narrow enough to put a
piece of cribbing 4x4 on each side of it and still have the bogie mount take the load. Cribbing it properly does surround the jack, so I have 2 to
raise the rear. This does, however, leave a jack on each side inside the cribbing as a sort of safety catch should something go wrong. I won't gop
under one unloess it's cribbed with sturdy lumber.

--johnny
--
Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons.
Braselton, Ga.
I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me in hell

 

[Ken H.]

Dolph,

Depends: If I just want to get clearance under the frame, I just jack 'er
up. But if I want to get a tire off of the ground, I take the weight with
the jack, install my 3/8"x3"x12" arm lifting bar beneath the suspension
arms & on top of the bottom of the bogie, and let the air out of the bags.
The tires then lift off the ground right away. Letting the air out is
IMPORTANT: I've got one of those 3/8" thick steel bars with a nice curve
in it -- one of our regulars here jacked up with it installed without
dumping the air. I've also got a bogie with the bottom broken where
one of our deceased members did something similar on his coach. Lots of
force in those arms (as a WAG, they can exert about 1800# weight X Arm
length / Distance pin to contact = 1800# X 15 / 3 = 9000 lbf on the bottom
of the bogie).

Ken H.

On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 1:00 PM Dolph Santorine via Gmclist <

> I’ve always let the air pressure out of the bags before jacking the coach
> up at the bogies.
>
> A number of folks I know don’t do this.
>
> Am I adding an unnecessary step?
>
> What do you do?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Dolph
>
> DE AD0LF
>
> Wheeling, West Virginia
>
> 1977 26’ ex-PalmBeach
> Howell EFI & EBL, Reaction Arms, Manny Transmission
>
> “The Aluminum and Fiberglass Mistress"
>
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