My TT - Love & Hate relationship
34ft Palomino Sabre 31qbds Love the floor plan Hate that it bounces & shakes I have used the x-chocks on both sides. I have attempted to use stablizer manual jacks on the slide out sides. ...
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Doug33 wrote:Ron3rd wrote:
One thing that might help is to use a scissor jack under one of the axles. I have a 35 ft TT and have had the same problem and explored options on the Forest River forum, where I got the idea of the scissor jack there. Seems to be a problem on the very long trailers like yours and ours. The jack helps quite a bit.
Same here. If it's just me and the wife for a weekend I won't bother, but if the whole family goes, I use a scissors jack on the axle between the wheels on both sides and it makes a huge difference. The X-chocks don't work effectively on my TT because it sits so high off the ground and there is a huge distance between the two tires.
BTW - I notice the bouncing the most when I am sitting on the bathroom throne at the back of the TT. When a bunch of people are moving around and in/out of the unit, I feel like I'm on an amusement ride and need to strap myself in. :)
I considered the X-Chocks but read posts like yours where it did not solve the problem. The Chocks help solve "front to back" motion only and do nothing for up and down motion which is very common on the long trailers. Some of the up and down movement is even in the tires. Putting the jack under the axle is the only thing I found to greatly lessen, but not eliminate the movement.
