adamis wrote:
mountainkowboy wrote:
GeoBoy wrote:
When I bought my first TC in 2006 the dealer showed me how to load it. To get it perfectly even all around he took a dead blow sledgehammer, a 2x6 and placed the wood against the base of the jack leg and gave it a good wack. Went around to the other leg and hit it in the direction he wanted the camper to move. I can get my camper to within 1/8” to perfect with his method.
I watched a guy at the dealer straighten it out by leaning and pushing on the corners, it was dead straight.
By dead straight, did you take a tape measure and measure it or did you eye ball it? Each one of us has a different measure of what "dead straight" means. For some of us, being off an inch or two wouldn't bother us in the slightest, for others of us, anything greater than 1/4" is too much. Neither is right and neither is wrong so long as the camper stays on the truck from point A to point B.
Being an engineer with borderline perfectionist tendencies I've personally tried to push on a camper to get that last 1/4" but found I can't exert enough sideways pressure to really be effective. Taking a hammer to the legs could work if you are just tapping it 1/2" at a time but it is putting stress on something already under a lot of stress. It is surprising to me that there does not appear to be products on the market to address this problem (hence why I've been thinking of developing my own).
he would lean and lower, lift and do it again...it was within 1/2". If thats not close enough....you shouldnt have a TC.
