Making my travel trailer stable when parked

[samwalker]

Have a 26' Rainier travel trailer. When we are parket at our sit with all four jacks down and the trailer being level, it shakes when we walk across the room. How to I make it more stable so it doesn't shake?
Appreciate it. Have tried adding fifth and sixth frame jacks about mid-length, but still shakes when we walk.

[silverfz]

After a year I sort have this down. Its a lot better now . I use a X choke on my dual axle wheels on one side and 2 chock on the other side. Also threw away the flimsy rear scissors and replaced them with camping world 6500 LBS scissors. Once down it improve the stability dramatically.
Now the scissor jacks flexing proportional to how much you have expanded them.
so now I carry 4 of those lync stabilizer of 10 piece. I try to keep the scissor jacks as compressed as possible.

this is very close and easy as we travel a lot of never stay long term anywhere. If we do I would probably carry a cement block. I just carry 1 for the tongue to prevent excessive flexing.

[justafordguy]

X2, the BAL 23216 Lock-Arm Stabilizing Bars work very well for taking the shake out. I used them on all 4 stabilizer jacks plus the X-chocks on my last TT and it was very solid.

[PAAK]

With the stabilizer jacks down and I also you an x-chok on both sides. it is more stable than ever.

[Chuck_thehammer]

as before home-made x-chocks and (2) 2 ton bottle jacks... in front of wheels...

as I am NOT a light weight... and do NOT want to wake up Wife by making trailer rocking as I walk..

this Works. short of cinder blocks. LOL.:)

[dwayneb236]

X Chocks definitely helped with ours. Not a complete answer but greatly reduced the movement. If my wife noticed it was better then that tells me all I need to know.

[GrumpyGator]

I just installed a set of Steady-Fast stabilizers on my TT and it is rock solid. I didn't think this would ever happen. These add-ons are spot on. Very impressed with them. Company offers guarantee and you can call the owner for install help. Who does that these days?

[_tiredTeacher]

GaryWT wrote:
Short of putting it up on cement blocks you will get movement, just life on wheels. Items talked about will help some, some more than others, but it will not be perfect.

And not worth the money, added set up time, storage of components, etc. We put the OEM stabs down and live with it.

Teach

[myredracer]

The Steady-Fast stabilizer struts work well and there's also similar ones - BAL Lock Arm, Ultra Fab Eliminator and JT's Strongarm. I recently installed a pair of the BAL struts at the rear and they work extremely well. One nice thing about the BAL struts is that they sell them in pairs only.

We bought 4 of the aluminum stacking jacks earlier this year. They only extend up to 17" tall and our frame is 24" above the ground which means using a bunch of wood blocks to build the height up. I've found for our TT that the BAL stabilizer struts do a better job and only use the jacks if camping for more than 2-3 days and want to min. bounce as much as possible. I have found that a set of bottle jacks ahead of the axles helps.

[Doug33]

Your susceptibility to movement is enhanced by how high your TT sits off the ground. Ours is very high, so it is very difficult to block with jacks, etc.

Also, our axles are very spread out (more than 18 inches between tires) so use of x-chicks is not practical. I do place two scissor jacks mid frame which helps some with bouncing. However, if you are sitting on the throne in the back of the TT and someone is moving around in the front bedroom, you are going to feel it.

[GrumpyGator]

Anyone have any experience with the Steady-Fast Stabilizers?

[mtofell1]

Basically, you need more bearing points and things to limit lateral movement. The X-chocks help but likely won't be the drastic change you are looking for. I've often thought of placing bottle jacks under the frame in a few places to see how much of an improvement it makes. Some diagonal bracing to the ground would be ideal to help the lateral movement. In the end I just live with it and remember it's not a house.

[2012Coleman]

I'm about to order a set of these - on sale at Camping World for 19.79 Going to set them up by the wheels on either side

[Chuck_thehammer]

bobndot wrote:
http://forums.woodalls.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/19777656/srt/pa/pging/1/page/240.cfm

thank you

I tried to copy and paste the one photo. could not figure it out.

[patperry2766]

Valterra stabilizer

My wife bought one of these, and we have had it in the box in the camper for over a year. I broke it out our last trip and it made a significant difference.

Were gonna buy another one for the back of the camper and possible one for the slide out