Electric stabilizers

The farther down the arms go to the ground, the more weight they can handle without crumpling. Having bent two of them, I never use extra blocks and use a very light touch when adjusting them if there's not much clearance between the jacks and the ground.

They should be not be allowed to call these things stabilizers. Pfft... Watch them while someone walks in and out of your TT and see how much they flex.

They are inherently weak and no matter what they just don't stabilize that well. If you have annoying bounce, the only thing you can do is to add more stabilization to your stabilizers. You can use bottle jacks or aluminum screw jacks under the frame in four corners or try something like the BAL lock-arm stabilizers (or other brand). Adding bottle jacks ahead of the axles can help too.

PackerBacker wrote:
I have the same ones. I have found that they provide better stabilizing with less number of blocks under them. I only use one piece of 2x6 under each. The more blocks, the more longitudinal dynamic stress (or bending) that can lead to more movement; at least that's my theory from an engineering perspective. :E

Yeah - Whatever it was he said.

I have the same ones. I have found that they provide better stabilizing with less number of blocks under them. I only use one piece of 2x6 under each. The more blocks, the more longitudinal dynamic stress (or bending) that can lead to more movement; at least that's my theory from an engineering perspective. :E

bigbird337 wrote:
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 possible for better stabilization of the trailer

I have the same stabilizers - looks like a big arm. It is best to extend them as far as possible because the closer to vertical they are the more effective the vertical support.

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I would block to make the stabilizer a bit shorter.