The front wheel and my dumb move

ChanW

You should start driving backwards to even out that wear. 

PXLated said:

Ya - I'm 250 miles from picking them up - Still not quite to the wear bars though but uneven wear on back two - The fronts are better :-)

Nomad

They look worse in the photo than in real life :-)

mickietucs

Well that was easy- got out the truck's jack, placed it under the tongue and with a few turns, it was high enough to put the wheel back on. Now I wish I had thought of that (but kudos goes to the fine folks on this forum). 

Dalehelman

Simply lift the tongue with the tongue Jack high enough then lower your front stabilizers. They are more than able  to support the front indefinitely or while changing the dolly wheel. Stabilizers can not be used for lifting just for supporting. They can not lift because the foot pad moves in an arch and must move horizontaly as well as vertically when lowered.

Fergie

"Dalehelman  Posts: 305Member

September 19  edited September 19

Simply lift the tongue with the tongue Jack high enough then lower your front stabilizers. They are more than able  to support the front indefinitely or while changing the dolly wheel. Stabilizers can not be used for lifting just for supporting. They can not lift because the foot pad moves in an arch and must move horizontaly as well as vertically when lowered."

Best entry yet in this series! Physics and mechanics will always trump over all else! I too have a pad to replace the wheel as I have found many sites where the tongue needed to be low to get the rig level, especially on a sandy soil site where a wheel wouldn't work. This was the case when we parked the T@B at Shadock Island State Park in NY on the Hudson River for a week this past July on a trip east.

Nomad

When on dirt, sand, or soft... A pad does the trick...

ericnliz

PXL, Is that your dual purpose cutting board?

Nomad

Yep, saves space :-)
Actually, I think it a stabilizer pad for a big rig - found it in the middle of the road when leaving a campground.

ericnliz

Somebody is chopping onions on a rock. But I will say, I like the "space saving" idea!

Photomom

We haven't used the jack wheel since the first trip, more trouble than it is worth. A piece of board works great and doesn't make a divot in our driveway.

Nomad

Don't know what I'd do without the wheel and pad - Would certainly make hooking up a bigger hassel. And I hook and unhook a lot.

mash2

I keep a piston jack in the back of a cabinet for emergency adjustments.  Block, raise with piston jack and fix whatever went wrong.  

AldebaranJill

mickietucs said:

I've found a few places I can't get the front end low enough with the wheel on so I almost exclusively use the foot.

@mickietucs - Also have this issue while camping and parking at my house. Just realized a foot would help both at home and when leveling.  Searched for "foot pad" and found this post. Looks like you have the surge brakes (not electric) - is there any issue with the foot being too low (can you retract it all the way and not have front of tongue touch ground?)

Ratkity

This is where PXL says something about them Lego blocks lol

Nomad

Yep - A couple blocks under the T@B wheels (raising it) also raises the tongue height - Problem Solved :-)

mickietucs

AldebaranJill said:

mickietucs said:

I've found a few places I can't get the front end low enough with the wheel on so I almost exclusively use the foot.

@mickietucs - Also have this issue while camping and parking at my house. Just realized a foot would help both at home and when leveling.  Searched for "foot pad" and found this post. Looks like you have the surge brakes (not electric) - is there any issue with the foot being too low (can you retract it all the way and not have front of tongue touch ground?)

I have elec brakes. I do have a foot and use it 99% of the time. I like the wheel if I needed to move the trailer around by hand but I'm usually on dirt or gravel. PXL - I don't know how you do it as I know you're mostly on dirt too. 

Nomad

Don't know how I do what exactly.
For the wheel, I have a leveling pad that's smooth on one side and it's about 18" square - found it on the road, think it's a big rig pad. Have seen them in RV supply places. Allows me to move the wheel around a bit when I'm on sand/gravel.

Dalehelman

If you had 2 of those you could move it almost anywhere. I like the idea. I have had problems on soft terrain, and that's a good  solution. Flat and easy to store.

Nomad

Allows me to shift the tongue 6" or so, easily - Even though after a thousand hooks / unhooks I'm pretty much dead on the hitch.

Sharon_is_SAM

I commandeered an old gel type cutting board for this purpose.  

Nomad

Ya, a good solid cutting board would work. The back side of my pad is honeycombed so grips the ground.