Introduction, plus a levelling jack question
Hello! New guy here.. (and first post) I'm relatively new to RVing in general, but started off with a bang.. After researching for several months, I purchased an older Komfort travel trailer and hi...
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downtheroad wrote:
Welcome to the Forum..
The reason why you are having problems is that you are using the jacks for the wrong purpose..
They are for STABILIZING your trailer, NOT for leveling it. If you try to lift your trailer with them they will break and or you will tweak the frame of your trailer...
Use block under the wheels of the low side to level side to side and your tongue jack fro front to back leveling.
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Either buy some of the plastic leveling blocks or bring a about 3 2"x8"x24" boards. Put as many as you need under the tires on the low side to get you level side to side. Crank the jack for front to back level.
THEN, you crank the stabilizer jacks to snug+ 1/2 turn which prevents most of the shaking movement from someone walking around in the trailer.
Your trying to lift a multiple thousand lb. trailer with something designed to handle much less than that. I'm going to bet that you damaged at least the jacks if you busted the handles off due to difficultly to turn. hopefully you didn't bend the frame badly.
