Elec Lippert stabilizing jacks. How do YOU use yours...
these things aren't designed to lift your rig ... but how do you get minimal wobble/shake... any idears....
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The Lippert elect. stab. jacks are rather flimsy and move around a lot. Have someone walk in out of your TT and watch them move and flex. The horizontal beam flexes and the bolt that connects the main arms (that go up and down) to the flat-ish angle braces flexes a lot as well. About the only thing you can do is buy a set of stabilizers for your stabilizers like the BAL lock-arm braces. Only another $300 or so... Not sure what to do with ours. May give in and buy the BAL lock-arms or I may see if I can strengthen the Lippert jacks. I like our elect. jacks for convenience but am not thrilled about the idea of having to reach down to do the extra braces all around.
I like the structural design of this one and should be fairly sturdy in comparison but it is NLA and not self-levelling. http://www.ebay.com/itm/ELECTRIC-STABILIZER-JACK-RV-CAMPER-TRAILER-MOTORHOME-/320905518872?pt=Motors_RV_Trailer_Camper_Parts_Accessories&hash=item4ab7759f18&vxp=mtr
Manual scissor jacks aren't bad for vertical movement but you can still get side to side and fore/aft movement. X-chocks help and so does a set of bottle jacks ahead of the axles. Some have even added scissor jacks there. Sensing and controlling movement depends a lot on factors like your trailer length, weight, frame, etc. Our old 20' TT did fine on just 4 scissor jacks but when we went to a 29' TT with elec. stab. jacks, bounce and movement was awful in comparison.
I like the structural design of this one and should be fairly sturdy in comparison but it is NLA and not self-levelling. http://www.ebay.com/itm/ELECTRIC-STABILIZER-JACK-RV-CAMPER-TRAILER-MOTORHOME-/320905518872?pt=Motors_RV_Trailer_Camper_Parts_Accessories&hash=item4ab7759f18&vxp=mtr
Manual scissor jacks aren't bad for vertical movement but you can still get side to side and fore/aft movement. X-chocks help and so does a set of bottle jacks ahead of the axles. Some have even added scissor jacks there. Sensing and controlling movement depends a lot on factors like your trailer length, weight, frame, etc. Our old 20' TT did fine on just 4 scissor jacks but when we went to a 29' TT with elec. stab. jacks, bounce and movement was awful in comparison.
