I’m dealing with the same thing. One guy said that the strange clips don’t actually go into the box, but that doesn’t sound right to me.

@@KaiCrafted thanks! I'm useless at electrical, but it came together!

I would love to tell you, but someone stole the camper a year ago. It held up great until then. You generally only have to worry about pre-heating and post-heating on cast iron or sometimes on high-carbon steel. In this case, the brackets supplied by Dexter were mild steel and the axle tube was likely DOM tubing, neither of which need pre-heat and post-heat.

@@ocdmachine thanks for the input. I wasn't originally going to add music, but we had music playing while we were working that would have flagged the video for copyright 😳. I had to drown it out.

@@silenthunterart5111 glad it was helpful!

@@DebbieOrr-ol7bv I haven't had to replace the lift arms, but I do have a video where I redo the cable system. Maybe that would shed some light on your issue. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hHu2lYmfnt-aaNksi=pCtMtPMTB7F91SON

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That information is at 14:20 in the video. It's 67 3/4" between ferrules for this camper.

People do do it that way, but the axle has a bow in it that has to remain in the right orientation to compensate for the axle’s flex when weighted. If you flip the axle, the bow will be going the wrong way and you can wear out your bearings and tires faster.

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@amariner5 I don’t recommend it. It’s extremely heavy and probably pretty dangerous to do it that way. Not to mention there’s no easy way to get it to lift evenly which makes breaking components likely.

At 7:21 I measure the cable at 3/16. I got the cable at Lowe’s, but I imagine you can get it at any hardware store. I used the stainless steel braided cable because it’s stronger.

I go over that at 16:11. The top stop gets fed up through the pulley and into the top tube. Next the springs go in ensuring that the cable sits in top of the bracket that holds the two springs together. The bottom part of the cable that loops under the pulley threads into the bottom tube and through the small space between the two parallel springs inside the tube. It should thread all the way through the tube until the next stop comes up against the springs inside. It should come out the end of the tube at the front of the camper where you will wind it up on the spool for the crank. Hope that helps! Good luck with your repair!

You can get it at pretty much any hardware store. I got the cable I used at Lowe’s.

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The second stop goes into the bottom tube to meet up with the bottom set of springs. At 17:19 where I’m feeding the open end of the cable into the bottom tube toward the winch, the second stop should follow that in to meet up with the bottom set of springs that push toward the front of the camper. When you’re feeding the cable through, there should be a space above the bracket holding the springs together inside the tube that allows the cable to feed easily through until the bottom stop meets up with the springs, then you’ll wind the open end of the cable into the winch. Hope that clears things up.

Thank you, that's what I ended up doing, this video saved my @$$, thanks again

I’m really glad it was helpful for you!

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Wood cribbing is a perfectly acceptable and very often used way to raise something up. There's nothing wrong with the stability of that. Putting a bunch of wood on top of a small area like the top of a jack stand would be extremely unstable.

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