elm_tx
Well-known member
Hey Y'all,
We're heading out tomorrow for our first ever trip with out 36' 5er, it's a short 2 night trip. The purpose being to simply get familiar with camping in a 5er before we make any long trips.
I've read on here that I need to be balanced for the Frig to actually cool down properly. I'm fine with that, no problem. We went out this evening to load her up, I put a level on the fridge door and saw that it was way out of wack, the front being too high. I went out and dropped the front landing gear as low as it could go, I was still way off the center mark.
My question is this, how do you balance the 5er front to back? I can easily drop the front, but only so far, the back has scissor jacks, I thought those were pretty much just to stabilize it and not carry a heavy weight load (i.e. drop the front as much as possible and then NOT lift the back to compensate to get it balanced). What do I do if the camp site is not level?
We're heading to Lake Somerville Tx, can't wait to do some fishing, bbq'ing and kicking back, but I think we're gunna be learing more then relaxing...lol
We're heading out tomorrow for our first ever trip with out 36' 5er, it's a short 2 night trip. The purpose being to simply get familiar with camping in a 5er before we make any long trips.
I've read on here that I need to be balanced for the Frig to actually cool down properly. I'm fine with that, no problem. We went out this evening to load her up, I put a level on the fridge door and saw that it was way out of wack, the front being too high. I went out and dropped the front landing gear as low as it could go, I was still way off the center mark.
My question is this, how do you balance the 5er front to back? I can easily drop the front, but only so far, the back has scissor jacks, I thought those were pretty much just to stabilize it and not carry a heavy weight load (i.e. drop the front as much as possible and then NOT lift the back to compensate to get it balanced). What do I do if the camp site is not level?
We're heading to Lake Somerville Tx, can't wait to do some fishing, bbq'ing and kicking back, but I think we're gunna be learing more then relaxing...lol