Post by kirkadie on Apr 5, 2013 21:08:41 GMT -5
It's been a long time/long winter since I posted after finding my corn field SOB Scotty Hilander. Ohio cold has kept me outta doing much besides stripping all the saveable stuff from the inside so I could see what I'm faced with on the rebuild.
A major setback has been the trailer height; too tall to get into our comfy closed garage, but also, the tongue jack had given up the ghost long ago so I had to use a brick/shim/cheap floor jack whenever I moved it from the back lawn to our pole building where Dad's truck and my VW hide from the ice and snow.
I bought a harbor freight cheapy tongue jack knowing it was too large to replace the Scotty's 1 7/8" diameter, also used on alot of other 50s-60s trailers, but kept up the search for the right size because I don't have welders/cutting torches and am a Scot=tight wad old guy...
Found an acceptable replacement here;
www.rvsupplyparts.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=10534
which was a perfect fit.
Also fortunate that besides being welcomed here at our amazing "club", I'm a member of the Serro Scotty group, and one of the members posted this tutorial.
www.nationalserroscotty.org/resources/jack-replacement.html
I'm mid 60s and have acquired for good or for bad, all the tools I needed to do this fix. My jack was welded so all instructions were applicable to the fix and total time excluding a couple of runs to the hardware store and losing truck keys in said hardware store, and including grinding off unrelated hitch rust, was about 3 hours.
Granted, the jack handle looks a little too modern, but because it is all rebuildable and turns slicker than owl snot, I'll live with it.
The supply house had the jack on my front porch in three days, one day less than it took me to get up the nerve to chop off the old, rusted excuse that came with the trailer.
Now that snow might be holding off for a few months it's time to attack all the miserable nails and staples that hold the skins and give whatever rot might be hiding underneath the Ol' Stinkeye.
Hope this helps someone with the same problem.
Kirk
A major setback has been the trailer height; too tall to get into our comfy closed garage, but also, the tongue jack had given up the ghost long ago so I had to use a brick/shim/cheap floor jack whenever I moved it from the back lawn to our pole building where Dad's truck and my VW hide from the ice and snow.
I bought a harbor freight cheapy tongue jack knowing it was too large to replace the Scotty's 1 7/8" diameter, also used on alot of other 50s-60s trailers, but kept up the search for the right size because I don't have welders/cutting torches and am a Scot=tight wad old guy...
Found an acceptable replacement here;
www.rvsupplyparts.com/index.php?l=product_detail&p=10534
which was a perfect fit.
Also fortunate that besides being welcomed here at our amazing "club", I'm a member of the Serro Scotty group, and one of the members posted this tutorial.
www.nationalserroscotty.org/resources/jack-replacement.html
I'm mid 60s and have acquired for good or for bad, all the tools I needed to do this fix. My jack was welded so all instructions were applicable to the fix and total time excluding a couple of runs to the hardware store and losing truck keys in said hardware store, and including grinding off unrelated hitch rust, was about 3 hours.
Granted, the jack handle looks a little too modern, but because it is all rebuildable and turns slicker than owl snot, I'll live with it.
The supply house had the jack on my front porch in three days, one day less than it took me to get up the nerve to chop off the old, rusted excuse that came with the trailer.
Now that snow might be holding off for a few months it's time to attack all the miserable nails and staples that hold the skins and give whatever rot might be hiding underneath the Ol' Stinkeye.
Hope this helps someone with the same problem.
Kirk