Broken stabilizer - am i expecting too much?
Purchased 2018 Starcraft Satellite in February and took first trip this past weekend. After returning home Sunday, one of the rear stabilizers got stuck a few inches from the ground (would not go up ...
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You probably didn't do anything wrong. Is the small end of your shaft hex shaped?
We installed a couple stabilizers from etrailer and one of the ends fell off right away. I had only lowered them one time and when we tried to lower the next time after travel the hex was gone.
When the large hex comes off the end of the shaft has about a half inch or so hex that the larger hex was pinned to. The pin holds the large hex on the small hex. The pin either fell out because the ends are just smeared over or because of the slop in the large hex riding on the small hex it does have enough play to put all the force on the pin and break it. It's not a shear pin otherwise they would mount the large hex on a round shaft end and when it did sheared you would know it right away because it would just spin.
If the pin breaks while using the Jack you don't really have any way of knowing it, it will then just vibrate off going down the road.
It's just more cheap junk that needs the nut welded to the shaft. Next time we back this into his driveway I'll be able to mig weld it.
Junk! Just junk after junk after junk.
We installed a couple stabilizers from etrailer and one of the ends fell off right away. I had only lowered them one time and when we tried to lower the next time after travel the hex was gone.
When the large hex comes off the end of the shaft has about a half inch or so hex that the larger hex was pinned to. The pin holds the large hex on the small hex. The pin either fell out because the ends are just smeared over or because of the slop in the large hex riding on the small hex it does have enough play to put all the force on the pin and break it. It's not a shear pin otherwise they would mount the large hex on a round shaft end and when it did sheared you would know it right away because it would just spin.
If the pin breaks while using the Jack you don't really have any way of knowing it, it will then just vibrate off going down the road.
It's just more cheap junk that needs the nut welded to the shaft. Next time we back this into his driveway I'll be able to mig weld it.
Junk! Just junk after junk after junk.
