As you can see to the left, I have a Cummins Bluebird 40' pusher.
I want to install Grizzly levelling jacks.
https://www.shop.thebigfootleveler.c...On-AQ-DPA1.htm
Here's the situation, lots of room to work with on the frame rails on the front end, I have free real estate between the front axle and the belly cargo boxes.
However, the back end is all kind of messed up. Jacks are supposed to be mounted close behind the frame hangars between the axle and the engine. On the driver's side, there is an air tank, which shouldn't be all that hard to relocate. But on the passenger side, there is both the battery box and the muffler.
No muffler is not an option. I hate obnoxious loud diesels. And nothing sounds worse loud than a V six cylinder automatic. Fortunately mine is a straight six, but still, want a decent muffler.
So I'm asking for thoughts and relevant experience on the subject. Has anyone mounted hydraulic jacks like this? I've seen it done on the "Life is a Joy" bus but I can't tell exactly how he did it on the rear end.
My thoughts are the following: The muffler can simply be moved a foot or so outboard and the pipe extended to match. The exit pipe I was already planning to do a right angle out the side rather than through the bumper in the back, so as to soot my trailer up a little less. My muffler is brand new, so I would rather not scrap it.
The battery box is a little more of a conundrum. I don't exactly need a slide out shelf battery box that could hold probably twice as many batteries as I'm using. Perhaps I could reconstruct the shelf to hold two batteries end to end and thus have more space inboard. I just thought of that, I'll have to measure. I'm one of those people who doesn't know what I'm thinking until I say it out loud (or type it).
I don't know where to put the air tank. There is some space inside the frame next to the drive shaft so maybe that's an option.
At any rate, I want to do this as the first major construction project because I want to elevate the bus for the rest of the conversion and make it easier to work on.
Anybody use the Bigfoot jacks?