My wife has mentioned (and I agree with her) is that the one bad thing about the FT air bag leveling is the constant jiggling when the wind kicks up or one of us is in bed and the other is walking in the coach. It often wakes us.
So I was thinking. (which is where I sometimes get into hot water) Would it be nutty to carry some suitable length screw jacks? They of course can be used for safety during under coach work and also solidify and lock in the level when parked for long periods.
If you want to. If ground fairly level some folks drop coach onto tyres.
Johnh
I don't see why you couldn't permanently mount some of those stabilizing jacks like they put on big travel trailers and 5'ers. Put one in each corner. Run them up and down with a cordless drill. Would be lots less hassle than using jacks that have to be set out each time you park, and later taken up to store in a bay.
Not sure about that as if the hwh leaked down over time (which ours does) and started putting its full weight on them, I'm sure it would likely break something expensive.
Might be more hassle, But a lot of owners seem to carry the solid safety bars around anyway for emergency work while traveling. (I don't) I just thought that a dual use adjustable set might make the carrying of such things more useful than just for an emergency safety block.
Haven't heard any chatter from the group on adjustable screw jacks for the jiggle while parked, So thought I'd ask.
If you are parked in a level spot you could always drop the coach down and would be solid except
for the tires.
Good point. OK, I retract my idea.
When we park ours on the slab in yuma I have some short safety stands I put the coach on. Seems to help but sitting on the tires it will still move a bit when someone goes in or out. I'm used to but it bothers my wife some.
Jerry I had given this some thought prior was thinking a lock cylinder with a paw inside on a long enough handle to reach from outside the wheels when almost down. Dropped low then leveled makes sense to me. Pull the pins and light spring extends and paw prevents dropping down. Then select dump or just drop a bit more staying within level. Would have to raise coach to remove to unload tension. Pull and reset for next use manually basically a mini jack stand
I'll have to search the web for that. 👍 I suspect that any 'jack stand' would be taller than the available space. But one never knows what the internet can find for you.
I do raise the coach to max, then level and just throw the aux step on the ground. I do that because quite a few RV parks have sewer pipes setup for high travel trailers, not low slung class A's. I find poo doesn't roll uphill very well.
if you have it up tall then reaching in isn't to bad. You could have some tubes that would fit inside each other and have a manual pin to adjust the height. Adjust, set pin , insert
I didn't understand your issue about movement before but after seeing you raise it to max before leveling, that would cause much more movement than what we do. Also there are stops to keep the tire from damaging the coach when dropped down. You could try setting down then leveling and just raise it when you go to dump.
When the coach is elevated the bags have a lot more pressure and less give. Don't want to run the coach engine compressor every week for three months just to raise the coach to make dumping easier. Of course the height isn't an issue in all parks sewer pipe drain. But happens enough that i just start high as a default.
When we had our Foretravel I used to just autolevel and call it good. Then I tried dropping onto the tires and autoleveling from there. We got some shaking both ways, but the step in was generally less with the coach dropped.
When we bought this travel trailer we expected that there would be less shaking. The trailer weighs 11,000 pounds (much less than the Foretravel), with stabilizers at all four corners plus the tongue jack and, of course, the four tires. Not so. If anything, there is more shaking now than with the Foretravel.
No Foretravel is exactly the same. There is one member on this forum who has both the airbags for traveling and hydraulic for leveling. From what I remember the hydraulic rams fit where the safety stands would normally go. I would imagine this would solve the wiggles