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Fastfwd75
Explorer
May 27, 2014

Conflicting info on levelling with stabilizing jacks or not.

My trailer has 4 levelling jacks; each corner. Plus the tongue jack. I have read that people use a block of wood under the tires to level side to side. I could do that when I am very off but I don'...
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wa8yxm
Explorer III
May 27, 2014
The rule I used when I was trailering.

I used wood 2x tire width (Still do) to get to within .75 inches of level (NOTE 2" lumber is 1.5" thick) then I used the jacks for the last little bit.. MOST trailers this should work.

If you want to take a bit of stress off. You could also carry a 1x tire width That gets you to 3/8's of an inch (actually both 3/4 and 3/8 of an inch are close enough to say "Forget it".

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