Adding a 3rd Set of Jacks
Hello, We recently bought a new travel trailer and I have been thinking about adding a 3rd set of jacks somewhere in the middle of it to help take some of the spring and movement out of it when we ...
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LarryJM wrote:I have to concur with that. From an engineering perspective and ignoring the effect of the tires/suspension and the tongue jack, the optimal location of jack points would be 1/4 of the overall length of the I-beams in from each end. Who knows why they put them where they do???
The factory installed stabilizer jacks are simply in the wrong locations.
Larry
The tongue jack should also provide "some" reduction in vertical motion at the front which is even more of a reason not to have stab. jacks so close to the front.
A person could experiment by using some bottle jacks or stacker jacks at the quarter points and see if you find much of a difference. For heavy duty frames (which most aren't) you may not see much of a difference.
The big fallacy is calling them "stabilizer" jacks, haha.... :R
