Electric stabilizers
I have a 2012 Wildwood 26tbss. It came with Lippert Electic Stabilizers. I an wondering is it better to extend them down as far as possible or block them up and keep them as close to the frame as poss...
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myredracer wrote:
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If you look closely at how the electric stabilizers flex and move around, if they wanted to, they could use thicker steel and stonger pivot bolts, but they build them the lightest and cheapest possible. It's surprising to see how much movement there is at the pivot bolt where the angle braces connect to the leg.
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When they crumple permanently, it's right there "where the angle braces connect to the leg". The pivot bolts are fine. I'm thinking of bolting on a piece of 2"x2"x1/8" steel box along the whole outside length of each leg.
If you really overload them, for example overloading the rears by lifting the front with the tongue jack :), you will also bend the main casing (the U piece running from side to side with the screw in it) in the middle. Presumably you could strengthen that as well with another piece of U overlaying it.
But I'm hoping that just strengthening the arms will be good enough, if I'm careful. Haven't done this yet, just looking around for the steel box pieces right now. Have a new one coming from Outdoors RV under warranty to replace the badly crumpled one with the frozen motor.
