Harley,
Okay, my fingers sometimes get ahead of my brain. I meant to say, drill,
not drip a small hole. Sometime, Outlook's inline spell check feature also
"helps" with unintended results.
I had one of the jackscrew nuts actually fall off when I had the Bambi at
the factory for some other repairs several years ago. The service tech told
me that it happened all the time and then proceeded to drill the hole and
insert the cotter pin. I performed the same operation on the remaining
jacks when I returned home.
david
> Harley,
> Without seeing a pic of one of the remaining jacks, I can't be sure, but I
> believe that it is the standard (ie NOT the lite duty version) BAL
> stabilizing jack. Airstream still uses them to this date and they have not
> changed one bit. The one thing that I have noticed is that it is a good
> idea to drip a small hole thru the nut (and the jackscrew) on the back of
> the jackscrew and insert a cotter pin. Even though the nut is a self
> locking (ie nylon captive design), it has a way of working itself off over
> time. You can get the jack from many sources as has been mentioned (assuming
> it is the BAL jack).
>
> david