How to Slide a Camper
- 1). Pull the safety clasp or pin from the jack with your hands.
- 2). Lower each jack until the feet of all the jacks contact the ground. Camper jacks are of two types, hand-crank and electrical, with electrical models running off power supplied by the camper's deep cycle batteries. For hand crank models turn the handle clockwise to lower the jack. For electrical models set the jack's switch to "down" or "lower."
- 3). Keep the camper as level as possible while operating the jacks. Lower each jack six inches at time, making a continual circuit around the camper. This is necessary to keep from stressing the camper frame as well as the points where the jacks are attached to the camper. Some electrical models of jacks are cable of working in unison and self-leveling the camper.
- 4). Raise the camper until the bottom is at least four inches higher than the top of the bed of the pickup.
- 5). Begin backing the pickup under the front of the camper, as slowly as possible. Carefully steer the pickup so the camper slips between the insides of the wheel wells in the bed of the truck. Do not allow the insides of the wheel wells in the truck bed to rub against the sides of the camper as the truck is backing up, or the truck can push the camper off the jacks.
- 6). Back up the truck until the front of the camper is within one inch of the front rail of the bed of the truck.
- 7). Raise the legs of the jack, lowering the camper onto the bed of the truck, until the legs of the jacks are fully retracted and the camper is set fully onto the bed of the truck.