Power drills for levelling

Have to agree with Happy and lostagain.  I use the crank away method, it is good exercise and helps to keep the "pipes" mean and lean.

This is what my tongue jack looks like now.  I ground off the rivet holding the handle on and pushed it out.  Then I took a 3/4" nut and drilled out the threads so that the nut would fit snug on the top of the jack screw.  Before slipping the bolt on, I very carefully drilled a hole right through the center of a flat face of the nut and through the center of the opposite face.  The hole was sized to take an appropriately sized roll pin.  (I don't remember what size, but I don't recall spending a lot of time thinking about it.  It must have been the same diameter as the rivet that held on the crank.)

That done, I slid the bolt on the jack screw, tapped in the roll pin, and finally ground off the ends of the roll pin flush with the faces of the nut. Voila.

I still carry the crank around with me in case this thing fails.  And of course I have the socket and a ratchet in case my drill or it's battery ever quit on me.  That hasn't happened in the 4 or 5 years since I made this mod.  I used to use an 18v DeWalt but now I have a 20v DeWalt drill, both of which work(ed) fine.  This is a job for a drill with some torque, especially raising the trailer and the back of my TV enough to attached the Fastway friction bars.

A store-bought 12v tongue jack looks fancy, but I really can't imagine that it works any better than this, plus I have a drill that gets a lot of other use.  A side benefit is that not having a ready go crank on the tongue jack at least arguably makes the Pod a little harder to steal.

TT