Modifying 5th Wheel landing legs

dpgllg wrote:
I am looking for a way to make the process of raising and lowering my landing legs easier on me. I am disabled and have extreme difficulty bending or getting down on the ground to deal with the landing legs. I have the pull pins to drop them but you always seem to need to raise them a bit to get them to lock into the hole. When raising I need to get down and lift them up until they lock.

I know expensive rigs have fully automatic systems but I don't have that kind of money available.

All suggestions to assist are greatly appreciated

Thanks !

Dave

Dave, don't worry about raising a leg extension. You're looking at a MAX difference of about 1.5", or the center-to-center hole spacing, between them. Unless there's something =seriously= wrong, this won't flex the frame enough to make a hill of beans difference. Just pull the pin with something (a manual awning handle would work), let the extension fall and extend the legs until the pins snap into place. Now, picking them back up can present an issue. You could replace the entire foot with one that has a ring on it to hook with the aforementioned awning hook, but you'd still need 2 hooks, one to pull the pin and one to lift the pad.

After thinking on this a bit, you =could= replace the landing legs completely, with hydraulic legs with a single "master" control to move them togeter, and =separate= controls for each leg (or maybe just for one) for fine-tuning. Ignore the extensions completely and just use the hydros alone. Just a thought...

Lyle