How to lift a Jayco tandem axecell

This will probably upset someone but what ever happened to grammar and punctuation, are you too lazy to use full stops. This happens too much now days. The "D" and the "B" aren't even near each other. Is this where we are headed with the English language?????

Its dangerous to lift the height of a van as it increases the centre of gravity and will make it more unstable when towing. It would be better to put a couple of wheels at the rear corners of the van so that when it bottoms out they will take the weight and roll on them. Some vans are already equipped with them for this reason. They are normally about 10CM in diameter made of steel and fit near where the back stabilizers are.

Mate, I had to read your post a few times to try to interpret what you want to do. I "think" I know, but I can't be sure because your post is full of spelling errors etc so if my answer is not what you were expecting, please forgive me.

If your van has solid axles (as opposed to independent swing arms etc), then you can do a relatively simple "spring over". This requires you to jack the van up at all four corners, remove the wheels, then remove the axles. You then place the axles UNDER the springs and bolt it all together again.

You MUST use proper safety equipment when doing this job. If you don't know much about tools etc, it would be best to get it done by a workshop.

NOTE: This will affect the overall ride height of the van and will mean you will have to raise the towbar height too AND the centre of gravity of the van will be raised and thus it will be compromised.

In some states this modification may also be illegal (not sure about that though).

If it has independent swing arm type suspension you may be able to simply buy taller springs.

To my way of thinking it is a lot of effort to go to just avoid it scraping on the footpath/roadway.......just drag it across!!

Good luck.

Roachie

I've taken the liberty of reproducing the original post into something that may come closer to "English".

I'm not trying to be a smart-rrrrrrrs, it's just that the way it was written it was virtually unintelligible.

OP: I would like to know if somebody knows how to lift a tandem so it does not hit the ground when I leave and arrive to back down the driveway of my home?
It is a standard Jayco van height, ground to underbody is normal height,
but driveway is steep at foot path and it bottoms out when I'm in the gutter.

Get some long boards like 8x2 and put them across dip in the gutter and pack under the middle and pull van across them..

The recommended way to raise vans is to remove the suspension from the vans (including the spring hangers.) You then use the same sort of RHS (rolled hollow section) the chassis is constructed from and weld a piece or that under both sides of the chassis. Then re-weld the suspension to the new packing pieces. Use 50 x 50, 50 x 75 or 50 x 100 mm sections depending whether you want a 50, 75 or 100 mm lift. If the packing sections are longer than necessary just to accommodate the suspension you will also strengthen the chassis.

Paulie,
Best advise is from Peter D, but if you can't afford it, then the old method of altering the axle from spring under to spring over works as well, with just a bit of axle walking.

Hell!!!!! I hope I haven't used any incorrect words or placed any punctuation thingies in the wrong place. Also, from what I see Roachie was only trying to help.

I know of many that have been lifted without problems or accidents.

As above the easiest way to get a lift is to unbolt the axle, remove it and rebolt it under the springs. One issue is that if you have a full annexe with built in floor it may not reach the ground near the van.

Ignore the spelling nazis, not everyone has had the luxury of a good education!!

Jayco (Perth) did this modification for us - axle under the springs - cost $400 as we had the same issue getting the van up our driveway

Thanks to al who understand an oldies problem with a near new van an a steep drive way.
Some highly educated people have know I dear what life is about .
but to critesize other people's lesser eduction.
O by the way did your boss give u a family holiday all payed for.