Rear Landing Gear Clearance???
Hi, I have been asking a lot of questions lately and appreciate the help. I just bought my first 5th wheel. I have an Open Range 371MBH. After I got it home my wife commented to me on just how...
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Campinghoss@51 wrote:shadows4 wrote:
I have a buddy who just took delivery of an new 5th wheel with the six point leveling system. He was concerned with the clearance of his rear jacks. He had the dealer raise them before accepting delivery. The first time out he ran into a problem. He had to put blocks under the rear stabilizers because they wouldn't lower far enough. Op'er, something to consider.
Good point as well. I have been to a few cg's that site we had was sloped and if jacks had been any higher we would have run out of stroke too.
I have a real issue with the programming logic of the LCI leveling system (assuming it's common between systems), in that it almost always levels =up=, and not down. I had an issue in front of my house when the RR jack ran out of stroke. The L side of my FW was noticeably unweighted, so why doesn't the logic measure the off-level numbers, the strokes and pressures on all jacks, then try =lowering= the entire rig to see if it will level. Hell, I could probably write a programming flow-chart to do this in about 30 minutes. In my case, my rig was off by < 1 degree and the L side had been lifted at least 2".
Lyle
