camperforlife wrote:
My trailer originally had the shackle to the front springs pointed up and the shackle to the back spring went down. That is the way the EZ-Flex went on as well but it put the EZ-Flex unit at an odd looking angle. When I started to put weight on the wheels the first side popped both shackles up as all the pictures show.
The other side stayed as it had always been so I jacked it back up and put bottle jacks under both axles and played with the load on each axle and low and behold the back spring shackle settled in the up position. I am wondering if the back spring shackles were never installed properly to start with causing the springs to be in a bind.
What you are describing is what we nick name, "shackle flop".
Some where in your campers life, maybe at the factory, when they had the axle up off the ground that one shackle flopped down and they never flipped it back up before putting it back down on the ground. The axle goes lower then normal, the equalizer pivots extreme and the shackle goes over center. It can happen to both sides or just one.
Like you said, just slide a bottle jack under the axle seat to hold the axle from flopping once the camper is up on jack stands. If it flopped, no big deal if the camper is up off the ground, just manipiulate the axle and equalizer so the shackle flops back up.
This is how I prevent it. Jack up, put on stands then slip the bottle jacks in place. You are not lifting with the bottle jack only support.
You did good getting this done. And yes the hard bonunce reduction is noticable. Schocks are the next step. They take the constant sine wave whip out going over a bump and the long camper flexing everything. Shocks are even more noticable then the EZ flex when I added them.
John
