Air Shocks or Air Bags on TT

JRscooby wrote:

Gdetrailer wrote:


They do make stick on graduated levels that readout in inches.



They also make graduated round bubble levels.

Inch reading will take the guessing out of your setup at a much lower cost than rigging air shocks and may be more reliable.

No sense adding extra things to break, RVs break easy enough..

If you are backing up a ramp until level, there is no need for the inch marks. Building a ramp, parking on top, the marks are some help, but if using 2X8s they leave some to be desired, IMHO Off by 1 inch? When on 2X, off 3/4 other way, do use a block or not? And if using the interlocking plastic even more confusing because the 2nd and higher layers don't lift as much as the first. This is why I mark the level in blocks.
I had 2 issues with the little stick-on levels. First, the 1 mounted on the front was too small for me to read from driver seat. Found a much larger tube/ball level. 2nd, the 1 on the side for front/back level, over time the sick-on let it walk over time. Found my eye debating the bubble. Re-adjust, and a couple of screws cured that (I trust my eyes, but DW trusts hers. Best to have a bubble)

Your making it overly complicated.

Back into your site.

Get out of vehicle.

Read level.

Get out appropriate materials to level that add up to the marking you just read.

Get back in vehicle, pull forward just enough to place your leveling materials.

Get out and place leveling materials behind the rear wheel of the trailer.

Get in and back up onto your leveling materials.

Done.

No guessing, the level tells you exactly how much you are out of level and you simply can setup your blocking without a bunch of guessing.

As far as leveling materials goes.

2x? are 1.5" inches thick.

For less than 1.5" you can use what is called "5/4" boards which are typically used for decking and are dimensional 1" thick.

For less than 1", you can buy 1x? and those will be 3/4" thick

For very tall lifts, you do a "pyramid" with wider boards on bottom and narrower boards laid on top of the wider boards.

Eaze the edges you drive up on with a miter..

You can also do a cribbing log cabin style with say some pieces of 4x4 and a couple of 2x? planks.

For a 7+" lift, you are my hero for even parking there, I am not into that much work and like enjoying not having to prop up one side of my outdoor tables and chairs just to be able to use them.