Changing Out a Trailer Tongue Jack Tim Barker. 5. Raise the Tongue With the new tongue jack installed securely, you can now use it to raise the trailer tongue enough to remove the jack stand(s). To ...

The tongue jack must be rated to handle the tongue weight of your trailer. This is typically somewhere between 10 and 15 percent of the weight of the boat and trailer. ­Except for very light, little ...

One of the best tongue jacks around tight now is the Brute Power Jack from Husky Towing Products: It sells for less than $200 and takes less than a 1/2-hour to install on most equipment trailers.

Fiddling around with the manual trailer tongue jack is a waste of good time and energy. So is dealing with slow, finicky or worn-out electric jacks. When it comes time to put an end to wasted ...