Following H. John Kohl's lead, we added mid-line stabilizers. The pictures are here:
MidLine stabilizers
We tried them over the Canada Day (July 1) weekend and they worked great - the floor of the trailer was almost rock-solid. As per John's advice, I set the Monty's nose high, cranked the new jacks down (even easier with a drill and socket), then lowered the nose to level. The stabilizers take enough of the load off the springs to stabilize the floor. Then lower the rear stabilizers.
Last fall, I got the stabilizers at the RV clearance store in Goshen. For clearance and height, I had a pair of steel beams cut near home (I call them the "sub-beams"). I painted them black. I attached the stabilizers to the bottom of the sub-beams, then cranked the stabilizers up to press the sub-beams against the main beams in front of the front spring hangers so I could drill the pilot holes in the main beams. In our case, we had previously added stiffening to the hangers, so the stabilzers were pushed about four inches forward, necessitating removal of the stairs to do the work. Self-drilling screws made the assembly farly easy, except that the steel of the sub-beams seems to be harder than the main beams and broke or wore out some drill bits! I figured out that first, drill a pilot hole through sub-beam AND main beam, then drill a hole in the sub-beam a bit bigger than the screw, so it slides through, then drill a hole in the main beam smaller than the screw so it grabs some meat and pulls itself in.
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