How do you stop the rocking

[Montana_2008]

How do I keep my 3400RL from rocking, I put front legs down, back Jacks, chock the wheels with plastic chocks plus a metal one between the wheels. Does anyone out there have any Ideas?? 3400RL Monty with electric awning, wing deck. Hitch on back, all new Micro cloth furniture,(got rid of the crap} Ford 250, 6.0, flowmaster exhast, air ride, airaid filter system. Thanks Jerry, Peg and Cody

[sreigle]

We've never totally eliminated it but have got it down to an acceptable level. Most of the time. In addition to what you've already done, we have..
1. put between-wheel chocks on both sides
2. use a kingpin stabilizer (2 or 3 leg, both seem to work about the same)
3. added scissor jacks on both sides. Either behind of in front of the wheels seems to work similarly. These stop the up and down movement.

We still have a little movement but not bad.

On the rear stabilizers you have down, I'd recommend you take them to just snug on each side, then go back and give each a half turn more. That seems to work best for us. Others have different approaches to this that may work just as well or even better. You don't want to crank them down too much or you are just lifting the rig off the suspension and reducing effectiveness of the wheel chocks.

Good luck. If you find something even better, please let us know. Many of us constantly are looking for something better to stop the movement.

[Glenn and Lorraine]

Click Here to find my method of getting rid of the "wiggle wobbles"

[ols1932]

I used to use a kingpin stabilizer. It wasn't the tripod but a bipod. Too many times we were parked where it ended up not being tall enough so I sold it. We use RotoChoks between the wheels. They really stop the forward/backward movement. We used to use the BAL chocks from Camping World but found that there was still some movement. Engineering wise, it was metal against rubber and allowed for some slippage between the tires and the chock, not much, but a little. When I changed the chocks I completely eliminated the movement. But everyone needs to do what fixes it for them. We don't use anything else other than our rear stabilizers snugged up after we level out.

[CountryGuy]

Someone in the park we are currently in had the same problem, obviously, that their tripod was too short. Solution, he put some of those yellow large plastic leveling squares that look like huge legos (can buy at CW and other trailer places) under each leg of the tripod. Looked like he had 2 blocks under each leg. Have no idea how wiggle free that might have been, but parked on blacktop, looked very wiggle free.

[Roman4]

We use the RotoChocks and the tripod kingpin stabilizer (unless it is just an overnight stop). When we are on a concrete pad those things, together with the normal stabilizers, seem to work pretty well. On gravel or dirt, we have mixed results as well as results that change over the course of a few days. I have concluded, therefore, that our movement is sometimes caused or exacerbated by the legs of our various stabilizers working down into the parking surface. I use a 2x6 pad under each leg, but I am thinking about trying pads with larger surface area under the stabilizer legs.

[Sweetfire]

You wild and crazy kids just have to calm down. Trailer rocking, my cheeks are red. :-)

[richfaa]

All of the above methods will reduce the rocking..But the camnper will move after all it is a camper connected to the ground by wheels not a house with a foundation.

[trukdoc]

There is a difference in the between the wheel chocks. There is a cam lock setup that does not work very well. And there is the one that uses a wrench, that one seems to work much better.

[Montana Sky]

I got a set of jacks like Glenn has posted in his pictures. Will not be able to try them out until April when I bring the coach out of storage. I did find that using my tripod under the kingpin really helped take out that rocking, not all of it but a good portion of it.

[patodonn]

In addition to the betwween-the-wheel chocks and back stabalizers, a bipod or tripod under the kingpin helps lots..mainly on lateral sway, some, but not as much on the up/down motion.

[Bob & Lee]

we use a king pin tripod and it works well with our LR in the front and 2 grand kid runing around. Made some between the wheel chocks from two car jacks, work pretty good so far and were free. the other 4 jacks I think need moved, I put them evenly spaced between the wheels and the front and the wheels and the back.. from reading everyones best results are next to the wheels front and back..think I will move mine. and as stated the ground gives out under them I adjust them every two-three weeks.