How do you guys stabilize your RV's in the campground?

Another just level no stabilizers or jacks here. I use stacked 2x10's. An E450 chassis with stiff springs carrying a small house doesn't make for much of any side to side rock.

If it aint rocking how would anyone know not to knock?

Our smaller and lower profile Phoenix Cruiser is equipped with heavy duty front and rear stabilizer bars, and heavy duty shocks. They all help when parked as well as when driving. So we don't do anything special when setting up camp other than leveling the rig with Lynx Levelers.

I would assume a tall standing 30 footer with kids horsing around in the cab-over bed could benefit from those free-standing stabilizer jacks.

marc515 wrote:
For those of you who don't have built in levelers, how do you stabilize/keep your RV's from swaying while parked in campgrounds?

Appreciate any insight you can provide.

Thank you,
m

A friend of ours has a new Jayco Greyhawk with auto leveling system and 2 slides. He told me that even with the auto leveling system, he still gets side to side movement.

We also have a Greyhawk without auto leveling system and ours has a lot of side to side movement without using stabilizers. We have a set of these that help to reduce the movement, but they don't completely stop it. I put a 6" piece of 2x6 under the jack which helps to keep them from sinking into the ground.

We camp seasonally for about 4 months in the summer. I generally go around checking that the stabilizers are tight every couple weeks. I put the stabilizers on the body of the Motorhome, not under the frame. Putting them under the frame didn't do much at all. We have two slides, 1 on each side. One is about 10 feet long the other about 14 feet long. We feel the movement most when someone steps into or out of the motorhome or if someone is bouncing around on the couch (on a slide) or one of the kids is bouncing around on their bunk (on a slide).

-Michael

Like many others we don't feel the need to stabilize the R.V. Leveling is all we do at a campsite. Probably helps that we have no dogs or kids.

We don't and it's not a problem with our 30 ft. Class C. Very little movement but then we are small people.

We have hydraulic kick down leveling jacks. They do NOT help much with stabilizing. For one, they don't take much weight off the suspension, and two, they are too far away from the corners.

I installed Hellwig sway bars front and rear for better handling on the road. Surprise! They do better keeping the coach steady than the leveling jacks do. Really a big improvement on the campsite. And I thought they'd only help on the road. They do, in a huge way, but the steadier camping is a wonderful added benefit.

We don't--------never been an issue. We do level though.
FWIW, our Dish antenna is usually attached to the RV and the movement of us walking around has never affected the reception.
May be an issue on the larger, heavily laden, RV's.

I have a 24 foot C and installed two scissor jacks on the rear frame and have two more that I use, not installed in front of the steer tires and use a small scissor jack next to the entrance so that when I enter the RV does not rock to much.

Scissor jacks in rear permanently installed and scissor jacks up front that are deployed as needed as is the small door jack, while overnighting I only use the rear ones for sway, for leveling I have curved ramps for overnight, if staying longer I use wood ramps.

navegator

Well, it's never been an issue, as we don't notice any movement. After hours of driving, I guess that just being stopped feels stable. lol