power leveling jacks
Hi Folks, Just traded our fifth wheel for a 27' winnebago sunstar. My question is can you put down the leveling jacks on a slightly graded driveway, and open slides? There are three slides.
Forum Discussion
Effy wrote:
All sound like very logical explanations and they make sense. But why would the engineers, the same folks that tell you not to raise the wheels off the ground, engineer and attach them in a way that you can? More to the point, allow them to lift the coach off the ground but be under-engineered in way to allow for lateral failure. And why does the auto level feature ignore this "rule"? I've had mine lift off the ground in auto mode. Hydraulic rams for the most part aren't terribly expensive or complicated. Beefier ones could be installed pretty easily to prevent this type of failure.
The auto feature has no idea and there is no way for that feature to know if a tire comes off the ground. The auto feature, if just one jack reaches its maximum extension will shut the system down because the system knows that 1 jack has reached its maximum extension and if that corner needs to go up to level it cannot and shuts the system down. As to your mention of why engineers "allowed" the design. YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO READ THE OPERATORS INSTRUCTIONS AND THEY STATE TO NOT ALLOW A TIRE TO LEAVE THE GROUND. Doug
