Remove fast guns to level camper?
Y'all remove your fast guns to level up? I was with a guy who didn't. He just torqued up the suspension until level. Didn't seem right to me so I removed mine on the maiden voyage. Thoughts?
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I'm one who doesn't always remove the fastguns. The jacks can be deployed and lift, especially the rear, a fair amount and all that is happening is you are unloading the camper weight from the truck. There is no additional stress in the fastguns. What I do:
Site close to level: lower the jacks with the fastguns attached to stabilize and provide some leveling. I can tell either just by just "pulling" on the hooked up Fastgun and feeling their spring tension or just looking at the rear suspension to see if the overload spring is about to disengage from the Stableloads. While learning how far I could go with the jacks I would unlatch the fastguns and then relatch them checking to see if they were at the same tension (tension starting at the point where 1/2 of the whole was covered). Now I have a pretty good sense of how far I can go.
Site unlevel: I'll use the "Lego" blocks and drive up on them. Final stabilization and leveling done like above.
Site really bad: Use Leveling blocks as well as the jacks with the fast guns removed. It's surprising how level you can get things when you use both the blocks and jacks.
Site close to level: lower the jacks with the fastguns attached to stabilize and provide some leveling. I can tell either just by just "pulling" on the hooked up Fastgun and feeling their spring tension or just looking at the rear suspension to see if the overload spring is about to disengage from the Stableloads. While learning how far I could go with the jacks I would unlatch the fastguns and then relatch them checking to see if they were at the same tension (tension starting at the point where 1/2 of the whole was covered). Now I have a pretty good sense of how far I can go.
Site unlevel: I'll use the "Lego" blocks and drive up on them. Final stabilization and leveling done like above.
Site really bad: Use Leveling blocks as well as the jacks with the fast guns removed. It's surprising how level you can get things when you use both the blocks and jacks.
