Stabilizing hints please....
I have an 31' fifth wheel bunkhouse model. The bunks are in the very rear and when the kids even turn in their beds, the entire unit shakes. I stabilize the 5th wheel with the rear scissor stabilize...
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coolmom42 wrote:Terryallan wrote:
It is gonna move some, and believe it or not. The bigger it is the more it will move.
However. Once you have snugged the stabs down, and set the X chocks. The only thing you have let that you can do, is to use jacks beside the wheels. To take some weight off the suspension. With the weight on the suspension. It will bounce every move you make.
This. You can prevent back and forth motion with Xchocks and they help a lot. But as long as the suspension, with SPRINGS, is holding the weight, there will be vertical bounce.
That is true, and most of the problem is figuring out if most of your movement is up and down or back and forth. X Chocks can take care of the back and forth but do nothing for the up and down. When I went to the 35 ft trailer I noticed a big difference in movement like the OP states. I determined most of my movement was up and down from the suspension. I put and old scissor jack I had in the garage under one of the tandem axles, in the middle, and just snugged it up. Took away most of the movement.
