Slide-out jack stabilizers. Good or bad?
I'm wondering about the use of slide-out stabilizers. Will they bend the slide-out supports over time?
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rhagfo wrote:downtheroad wrote:
Slide-out jack stabilizers. Good or bad?
Bad.
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I wounder if most people understand that the slides in the out position, the weight is not so much supported by the arms, as the interior trim! That 6" wide molding surrounding the sides and top on the interior are what truthfully provide the support.
Yes indeed. Take the inner flange away and the arms would bend. As I mentioned, when its in and I walk on the edge of the slide all the force is on the outside top edge and trying to also tweak the rail and bottom edge out and up in a bending motion. There are a lot of things the manufacture didn't give us.
When people argue of why somethings are not included or improved on by the manufacturer people often say it's to keep costs down and competition. I do think you have the chance of damaging something if you mess up so the manufacture says dont use them. It's easier for them. People do all sorts of dumb stuff and that's not the wheel cock or the stabilizer or the unlatched pin locks fault. You could ague to not use a rear stabilizer in case the tires go flat and it twists the whole rig.
