Rear Jack or Rear Stabilizer for a Fifth Wheel Some RV’s won’t have a rear “jack” or leveling jack at all. What they have is a “stabilizer” jack. The difference is really important. The IDEA behind a stabilizer is that it makes contact with the ground and then gets tightened up snug enough so that […]
RV Leveling System – Fifth Wheel Pictorial Guide
Fifth Wheel Leveling System Assuming most RV’s, particularly more expensive RV’s have electric or hydraulically controlled jacks (also called landing gear) on all four corners of your RV, then it is not a stretch that your RV might have an automatic leveling system. Our Open Range 399BHS has just such a system. The systems are […]
Fifth Wheel Landing Gear – Fifth Wheel Pictorial Guide
The Landing Gear Every towable RV ( travel trailers and camping trailers included ) has the concept that the wheels form the two rear corners of the “houses” foundation and that there is a front “support” that forms the front foundation. In a travel trailer, this is usually called the “jack” and on fifth wheels […]
My redneck moment – Unsafe without excuses – leveling your fifth wheel RV
Just because your jacks can make it level doesn’t mean you should! I had the RV parked on an incline once before… and it never bothered me. But the FRONT of the RV was very close to the ground and the front jacks were only extended about 6-7 inches. In other words, the wheels and […]
RV Basics : Leveling a fifth wheel : electronic leveling and JT StrongARMS
Open Range RV (now owned by Jayco as the Highland Ridge subsidiary) has a great video on leveling and stabilizing their RVs. I tried to capture in text below what the video said. I also found the 5th wheel leveling video online AND I found the JT Strong ARM instructions as well. I think it […]