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K2q
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Mar 27, 2016

Stablizie trailer - NEWBIE

What do y'all do the totally stablize your trailer with the scissor jacks.. Been thinking of putting in a couple more jacks near tires... Or am I not tightening down far enough? Or old fashion Jack stands? 34 foot travel trailer.
  • Get her level and cinch the stabilizers down. I use 2 x 6 blocks under mine plus chocks on the wheels.
  • It's a frame connected to a few wheels with some type of suspension. It's not like a house with a foundation around the whole perimeter. You have two choices 1) accept that it is going to have movement. 2) Throw a bunch of money at it until you get to (1) as noted above.
  • We have a 2016 Mesa Ridge 310BHS that came with struts attached to the stablizers. They have taken all of the movement out of the trailer. In addition, we use heavy duty squeeze chocks between the wheels to minimize the movement of the tires.
  • Short of using 6-8 stacks of cinder blocks you will not totally stabilize your trailer. There are various things that will help but it will not be totally set. The poles that go corner to corner seem to work well. We use extra A frames which help.
  • clicky

    the first one, the three-leg with strap trapezoid thing works very well, I hear. But there are obviously a zillion choices.
  • To keep the trailer from wiggling, we use a BAL single axle wheel chock on each side. If I didn't already have them, I would have purchased a BAL chock for dual axles.

    BAL wheel chocks
    http://norcoind.com/bal/products/consumer/chocks/chocks.shtml#single

    To keep the trailer level & stable, we stack blocks under the jacks so the scissors don't extend more than halfway. We tighten snug plus about 1/2 turn and recheck after the tires cool down.