deltabravo wrote:
bobbolotune wrote:
Someone in this forum mentioned using the 4 wheel drive low gear for climbing up blocks to level the camper.
It may have been me that mentioned this technique. I started doing it about 3 years ago.
My truck shifts to 2 wheel high faster if there's zero tension / bind on the drivetrain, which means I almost always shift the truck to Neutral.
To the nay-sayers that say "why won't a big ole Duramax / Cummins / Powerstroke with eleventy-thousand foot lbs of torque crawl onto the blocks in 2wd with 4000lbs of truck camper in the bed - try it in 4LOW and see it much easier it is.
9 times out of 10, I have to raise the nose of the truck. In 4 LOW, little or no throttle application is required, so it just walks the front tires up on the blocks.
In 2wd, application of the throttle is required, then when the truck gets on the blocks, it's "jam on the brakes so you don't overshoot the blocks"... the the truck and camper rock to and fro.
That's "my story" and it works for me.
I do the same with low range. Jamming on the brakes also tends to slide the blocks.
