Faster Landing Gear
Finding I would like the landing gear on my 5er to be a bit quicker. It struggles at times even on full battery charge if I have the trailer heavily loaded. Its a single motor setup. What are best ...
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We just had the landing gear motor assembly come loose shearing off 3 of 4 mounting bolts on our new 5th wheel toy hauler. Covered under warranty, but we have to wait a week for Lippert to send the parts (new motor and gear reduction assembly).
Preferred not to leave our unit at the dealer while waiting for the parts, so I decided to manually crank the landing gear to hook-up. Of course, wouldn't you know, in their infinite wisdom, the factory didn't take the time to properly line up the landing gear shaft with the exterior access hole. I had to use a hammer to force the crank onto the landing gear shaft at a crazy angle. I suppose I should be thankful I was at least able to do that.
Anywhoser, retracting wasn't too bad; however, extracting was so difficult it consisted of pushing up the crank 1/2 turn, then changing body position to pull down 1/2 turn. Took about 20 turns of the crank to move the landing gear about an inch.
My arms are killing me this morning :(
Preferred not to leave our unit at the dealer while waiting for the parts, so I decided to manually crank the landing gear to hook-up. Of course, wouldn't you know, in their infinite wisdom, the factory didn't take the time to properly line up the landing gear shaft with the exterior access hole. I had to use a hammer to force the crank onto the landing gear shaft at a crazy angle. I suppose I should be thankful I was at least able to do that.
Anywhoser, retracting wasn't too bad; however, extracting was so difficult it consisted of pushing up the crank 1/2 turn, then changing body position to pull down 1/2 turn. Took about 20 turns of the crank to move the landing gear about an inch.
My arms are killing me this morning :(
