RV draggggggggs.

[theboman]

Here's the deal. Got 03 F250 and a 35' 5th wheel. As I leave and enter the drive way the scissor jack(s) will drag on one side or the other.

The road is pretty darn level and flat the rise/hump is on the driveway. How do I figure out where and how much of the driveway I need to lower to get things to work propery?

Keep in mind that I have 15" tile that I'll be installing whenever I do this (or have it done).

No transit here, but plenty of string and a line level!! I know can't make it all level but I know there's a happy medium somewhere along the way.

Thanks!
Bo

 

[matt_isserstedt]

Basically, what has to happen is you have to increase the "radius of curvature". In other words where the truck and trailer have to make a sharp transition is what undulates the trailer to the point it scrapes. Make the transitions smooth and gentle and the problem will go away.

 

[theboman]

Such language! I didn't understand them....but figured it out as gotta get rid of the hump!

 

[BigE_]

I'd hook everything up and get it positioned in the place where you first start to hear the dragging. Stop, get out, and take a good look at where your truck is. That's the place that needs to be adjusted.

Of course, you could also lower the area that is dragging near the scissor jack...

 

[theboman]

Not exactly, but that works...

Drags going out in the driveway, drags coming back in the road, I'd upset a few if I dug up the road

 

[Bird]

Bo, I guess you know that Camping World and some other places sell some pretty tough skid wheels you can mount to the frame of the RV that might protect your scissor jacks.

 

[theboman]

The jacks are the lowest part of the unit, at the very end of the camper. I guess I'll measure from the drag marks in the road and take down accordingly, or until I get it right and try to maintain a small grade in the drive. It jumps is higher than the road.

The drive was never ever graded. It was an ATV trail, then turned into the drive...

 

[Willl]

Git rid of the jacks.

 

[JohnDeere4300]

I had the same problem with the jacks.....and i didn't do anything to the driveway or the county road....What i would do is when i got to the point where they would drag, then i would put some blocks of wood in front of the camper wheels & drive on them and it wouldn't drag at the low place.

Then i laid them beside my driveway so i could use to get back in.....I also carry the plastic leveling blocks and have used them before at campsites that had a low place, and i could always tell if someone else had dragged there before....because the blacktop had places in it.

LEVELING BLOCKS

 

[ronjhall]

Problem may be the truck is on a hump. Raising front end of 5er and lowering rear end causing it to drag. Some 5er owners flip the axles on top of springs to get more clearance.