Loved my BAL Leveler for the year and a half that it worked. The threads stripped out on a trip last month and I think I was fortunate to get the camper lowered without having to employ a jack under the frame. Due to back problems, I had been using an 18v impact driver, rather than the provided hand ratchet, to raise and lower the BAL. I now understand that was a bad thing as, apparently, the relatively soft steel in the BAL jack screw and trunion won't hold up to the high RPMs of the impact driver regardless of how much grease is applied to the threads. I have a friend who is a retired welder and superb metalsmith working on a fix. If he comes up with anything that proves to be a long term solution I'll take photos and post the result. Until then, I'm getting by with a stack of 1 x 6 pressure treated deck boards.
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Brian M.
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