My TT - Love & Hate relationship
34ft Palomino Sabre 31qbds Love the floor plan Hate that it bounces & shakes I have used the x-chocks on both sides. I have attempted to use stablizer manual jacks on the slide out sides. ...
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lawrosa wrote:It is not an area that I want to be a beta tester on. But frame bounce is so well known, that it existence is pretty much irrefutable. Doing as you say definantly won't help it, and will make it worse. My main concern would not necessarily be a permanant bend in the frame. But rather the damage that more than designed temporary flex could impart.2112 wrote:lawrosa wrote:
I lower the front of the TT as low as it can go then place two jacks on the rear frame. Then I lift the front up to just above level then place two on the front frame. Then lower.. All four corners are now fully supported...
This is the easiest way to bend a LONG frame. You may get away with it on a short trailer.
Can you link any documentation that a travel trailer frame will bend that way?
Your comments seem absurd IMO as well as others that posted the same comments..
And as I stated longer trailers should use two more at the center.
Again this process does not lift the wheels off the ground. If the frame did flex you are still supported by the axles anyway.....
Do you know how bridges are built???? Steel is made to flex... Show me a TT with a bent frame from this process...
Possibly someone from a TT sales dept told you this and it was taken for gospel???
IDK all my opinion is all....
As I said previously... Convincing you is likely a lost cause. But letting others know the risk of doing as you recommend might not be.
Did you know that TT frames are designed to support most of the weight by the wheels? In fact most if not all manufacturers camber the frame to counter act the frame flex. It is done with the wieght being supported by the wheels as the design... Doing as you say would reverse this... It simply can't be a good idea.
