Best stabilizer help needed

When someone is walking around inside the 5er it will bounce/wiggle. Rubber tires will bounce, suspension systems are made to bounce. To eliminate the bouncing/wiggling you need to keep the weight from pushing down on the tires and suspension by making sure your stabilizers are tight between the 5er and the ground. Don’t just let them out far enough to touch the ground, turn the crank more to make sure they are tight so they will not allow the 5er to push down on the tires. Use a bipod/tripod under the king pin. Make sure it is tight between the ground and the king pin, don’t just adjust it till it touches, tighten it so the front overhang will not move. Make sure to check the stabilizers and bipod/tripod every couple of days because they will loosen up over time. Doesn’t make sense spending a lot of money on landing jack stabilizers when the landing jacks are stable and don’t bounce up and down. If you have properly adjusted the stabilizers and bipod/tripod then you shouldn’t have any bouncing/wiggling. This has worked for me over the past 15 years.

Chocks are to keep the 5er from rolling forward or backwards. They do not eliminate the weight of the 5er from pushing down and causing the bouncing/wiggling. If you park on a site that has a incline/decline then you probably want to use chocks to keep your 5er from rolling when you unhitch.

There are a lot of other options out there to “eliminate” the bouncing/wiggling if you have the extra money and want to spend it.

Get rid of the wife with the bad temper, life's too short...Then you won't need any stabilizers..JMHO

B.O.

Any of the diagonal bracing products will do the trick. some are simpler to operate than others. I made my own JT knock offs for both our last TT and our current 5'er. On solid ground it's absolutely rock solid. On dirt/gravel it's about 90-95% solid. On both I installed the four brace system on the front and one diagonal in the rear. Wheel chocks of any kind won't take the sideways wiggle out. They help with front to back. To get the bounce out you need to make sure the rear stabs are under pressure. I do like some have suggested and that's to level up slightly nose down (1/2") and set the rears, then lift the front up to level. That puts added pressure on the rears.

Alley Fox wrote:
Also, when you drop the rear stabilizers, do you get them really cranked down? I bring my front LG slightly nose high and then crank the rears hard to make it level.

I do the exact opposite: front LG slight nose DOWN, lower the rear stabilizers then raise the front LG to make it level. Front LG much stronger on my rig.

Four point leveling system with strong arm are the best.:B

I found by usind some large or stacked blocking under the landing gear and rear stabilizers, and taking it up about an inch to inch and a half on the springs takes just enough wieght off the wheels to drastically reduce the bouncing, just a little side to side motion remains.

what I found also was setting up with a full tank of water and outside stuff still inside, as the weight of the unit changed the springs would lift the stabilizers enough to render them redundant, so if you have patio funiture and bikes or anything else more than a few pounds (which adds up) unload them first.


and no my unit did not twist up like a pretzel or fold up like a V amazingly enough

We too had tried the route of the Bi-Pod for years. Dutch even installed an additional set of arm jacks at the rear of our Carriage but neither worked for us. When we installed permanently installed aftermarket stabilizers over 7 years ago, my rockin` and rollin` disappeared and I have been a happy camper ever since. Di

6Gun wrote:
I have a new 31 ft. Rock-Wood and need to get the shaking under control when parked. My wife has a really bad temper when woke up in the early morning:S. There are so many products on the markets I'm not sure what works the best. I have a Side Winder king pin so I don't think a front tri-pod stabilizer will work. Maybe Wheel Locks?

I do have electric landing gear on the back it helps but its not great.

Thanks

All the stabilizers in the world won't stop all the movement, you are sitting on rubber tires ,and leaf springs . The stabilizers will prevent the fifth wheel from shifting back to front ,and side to side, but you will still get some up ,and down movement . If you want to stop all the movement you will need to get the weight of the leaf springs ,and tires . I have seen guys put jacks in front ,and rear of the tires both side just tight enough to take the bounce out of the tires ,and leaf springs. Personally the stabilizers work well enough for me ,but I don't have a mean wife :)

On edit : Steadyfast are very good stabilizers ,a little simpler in design ,and gets the job done very nicely

JT Strongarms made a big difference in the stability of our tall, heavy toyhauler.

JT's for sure...AND put 6x6 blocks under the frt. landing gear so as to not have to extend them as much...worked for me...big diff.!!!