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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mike-s wrote:Lynnmor wrote:LOL. First, I'm not suggesting lifting the wheels off the ground. Second, it's no different than cranking down on the stabilizers, just easier. Third, supporting a truss from 3 points gives it more strength than supporting it by one. Fourth, it works and doesn't hurt a thing.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.
Stabilizers are meant to stabilize not take weight off the axle. To the OP, do not listen to this bad advice.
