Can’t get motorhome off leveling jack
I have a forty foot motorhome that is our first. I had a problem on our last trip breaking camp. Getting ready to go I raised all four jacks but the front left was fully retracted but sitting on the b...
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wa8yxm wrote:
What happened? You loaded all your "Travel stuff" and thus loaded it down.. likely about 1.5"
This is easier with a car... Measure the bumper height with the car basically empty. Do this at the rear bumper.. Now open the trunk and set 3 or 4 5 gallon pails of water inside (however many you can fit) and measure the bumper height again.. Now remove the buckets .. carefully (you might put only 4 gallons in)
Each gallon is what about 8.6 pounds so 4 times 4 gallons is a bit over 250 pounds.. Now imagine all the stuff you put in the RV.
I’m trying to imagine any sort of reasonable scenario that compresses the front suspension an inch and a half due to loading up “travel stuff”. And even moreso how the camper got that much heavier “after” a comping trip where the same stuff goes home minus the heavy consumables.
But moreso I’m trying to imagine how even a wacky theory like that applies to air ride….
