5th Wheel Landing Gear

Joe Way wrote:

valhalla360 wrote:

valhalla360 wrote:
One thing to remember is the ground isn't always level so it's off by 1/2" it doesn't matter. Now if they are off by 4-6" it's probably worth unpinning the driveshaft and turning manually to balance (while hooked up on the truck with FULLY SECURED hitch).

Check, the bottom of the feet. On ours, they screw out if you only need an inch or so to level them out.

When we drop the trailer, we do the following:
- Put a 2x6 under each leg (just to keep them out of the mud and dirt) and pull the pin so the legs fall to the ground.
- Lift each leg the same number of holes and re-pin. Usually 4-5 holes (more if the ground slopes upward from front to back and we need to drop the front of the trailer once off the truck).
- Drop using the electric motor until one leg touches.
- Spin the other leg until it touches.
- Now lift using the perfectly balanced legs.

Sounds worse than it is...

Very close to what we do. If you first lower the legs 4-5 inches (or whatever is appropriate), then pull the pins, you can skip the hole-counting part. Saves a few seconds.

valhalla360 wrote:

valhalla360 wrote:
One thing to remember is the ground isn't always level so it's off by 1/2" it doesn't matter. Now if they are off by 4-6" it's probably worth unpinning the driveshaft and turning manually to balance (while hooked up on the truck with FULLY SECURED hitch).

Check, the bottom of the feet. On ours, they screw out if you only need an inch or so to level them out.

When we drop the trailer, we do the following:
- Put a 2x6 under each leg (just to keep them out of the mud and dirt) and pull the pin so the legs fall to the ground.
- Lift each leg the same number of holes and re-pin. Usually 4-5 holes (more if the ground slopes upward from front to back and we need to drop the front of the trailer once off the truck).
- Drop using the electric motor until one leg touches.
- Spin the other leg until it touches.
- Now lift using the perfectly balanced legs.

Sounds worse than it is...

valhalla360 wrote:
One thing to remember is the ground isn't always level so it's off by 1/2" it doesn't matter. Now if they are off by 4-6" it's probably worth unpinning the driveshaft and turning manually to balance (while hooked up on the truck with FULLY SECURED hitch).

Check, the bottom of the feet. On ours, they screw out if you only need an inch or so to level them out.

When we drop the trailer, we do the following:
- Put a 2x6 under each leg (just to keep them out of the mud and dirt) and pull the pin so the legs fall to the ground.
- Lift each leg the same number of holes and re-pin. Usually 4-5 holes (more if the ground slopes upward from front to back and we need to drop the front of the trailer once off the truck).
- Drop using the electric motor until one leg touches.
- Spin the other leg until it touches.
- Now lift using the perfectly balanced legs.

Sounds worse than it is.

If your legs don't have the fine adjustment screw at the foot, 1x6 or other thin material (even scrape a bit of dirt out from under the high leg) to get them level will work.

SDcampowneroperator wrote:
Electric jack legs are connected to each other by one motor via a jack shaft with bevel gears on each end. They cannot be 'retimed' to each other by any other way than removing the shear pin through the bevel gear on one end of the shaft, putting it back in when the jack legs are equal.
Never top or bottom out the legs, that will at least blow the breaker, at worst strip gears or burn out the motor.
The other campers advice was not correct.