Lifting the Jayco Swan

[Chimo]

Love the concept.

Do not like the weld across the drawbar extension section. Advice from engineers was to avoid cross welds rather better to locate welds along the tube sections. This certainly was proven when building chisel plow and similar ag box section style units.

Kallen's point about extending the drawbar further back to intersect the underbody chasis members is also worth considering IMHO

Cheers
Chimo

[gaddy]

Finally got around to mocking up the rear bar , just need to add some tie down points for Jerry's and paint , and fitted the drop jacks

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[Bigcol]

Love the concept.

Do not like the weld across the drawbar extension section. Advice from engineers was to avoid cross welds rather better to locate welds along the tube sections. This certainly was proven when building chisel plow and similar ag box section style units.

Kallen's point about extending the drawbar further back to intersect the underbody chasis members is also worth considering IMHO

Cheers
Chimo

its already been said - about making the draw bar go from under the chassis
when we did a similar thing to my Father-in-laws Camper years ago, we used 75x50x4RHS
started from behind the axle and went to the front - big long V shape - made it about 2m from front of the Van to the hitch

as the chassis was sitting on that for over half the Van length, and was welded everywhere possibly known, he never had a problem with it.......

[gaddy]

Yeah , I'm happy with it , the guy that will be doing the mod plate reckons more then strong enough due to the high tensile spring steel on edge under the draw bar , and runs from hitch back to past the new chassis , and the bracing behind the hitch box ,