Shimmy and shake single axle trailers
My neighbor/friend just bought a 20-21' travel trailer. He an his wife did a 3 day/night at a local CG to check everything out. They both noticed the instability, and asked what they could do to minim...
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Lynnmor wrote:mike-s wrote:
What works great is to lower the tongue with the jack, set the rear stabilizers, then raise the tongue to take a lot of weight off the axle. Finally, set the front stabilizers then let the weight off the jack. Much easier than trying to lift weight off the axle using just the stabilizers.
Now you have the trailer sitting on its four corners bending the he!! out of the frame. Bad advice.
You don't have to take all the weight off the axle, just a few 100 lbs should work, enough that the weight of a person walking around isn't making the suspension flex. Long as you're level, nothing should be bending or binding.
Something I'll have to try next time I'm out, good idea mike-s
