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Old 09-03-2018, 05:00 PM   #21
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Question - Why can't the trailer be supported by the stabilizer jacks?
Hi: cvanzan... Could possibly bend/twist the frame!!! Alf
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Old 09-03-2018, 05:26 PM   #22
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The stabilizers are not jacks, even though people use that term. They are not strong enough and you can also twist the frame since I assume you would jack them up one at a time.
If you read the manual, it says not to over tighten them. Says to snug them and give another quarter turn. They are only for stabilization.
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Old 09-03-2018, 05:39 PM   #23
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This is from the C-Jack installation instructions off BAL's website.
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Old 09-08-2018, 11:43 PM   #24
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Scissors jacks, a good thing to have

I am in the process of checking the axle bearings and setting the brakes, so we can do some late season camping.
I also recently purchased new tires from Fountain Tire.
However for storage I take most of the weight of the trailer off the tires, but leave enough on for the chocks to work.
I have in the past installed sciccors jacks
Leveling is a five minute process.
And no, I do not twist the frame or the trailer
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Old 09-09-2018, 09:05 AM   #25
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I say you just can’t have too many jacks. Took my 19 on a test see-run, to make sure everything was good for a bigger shoulder season trip upcoming.

I keep a small scissor jack in my tongue box along with a 2-ton hydraulic bottle jack. They came in very handy yesterday. Was driving to the Tent Rocks National Monument near the Cochiti pueblo. That’s 22 miles south of Santa Fe. Off I-25, 12 miles in, on a lonely paved road. Has about twenty concrete “dips” for channeling rain run-off across the road. These dips are well marked with signs, aren’t deep, but they make trailer towing across them a drag. Have camped at Cochiti before but had never gone to see the Tent Rocks.

After slowly crossing over the first ten dips I must have gotten impatient and did the next one a tad too fast. Bam! I was de-hitched! Couldn’t believe it. There’s no shoulder. Five cars stopped behind me, then went around. The tongue was nested in the emergency chains but was down real low, nearly touching pavement. Low enough so to raise it back up and onto the receiver the right tool was my low-profile little scissor jack. If the unexpected finds you unprepared, you are screwed. It didn’t get the tongue high enough, so wood blocks and the bottle jack finished the job.

The bigger question was, how come I got so easily de-hitched? Turns out because this was supposed to be just a little day trip test run I didn’t lock the tongue cup down with my padlock. Lesson learned.

Oh and I should mention two guys also visiting Tent Rocks for the first time stopped to lend assistance. Turns out they were from my same home town in New Jersey. Amazing.
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Old 09-12-2018, 10:35 AM   #26
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Washing the exerior of the Escape?

Hi,


Got black spots all over the top and the sides are showing some black mold along the seam.
What do you folks use to wash the exterior?


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Old 09-12-2018, 12:46 PM   #27
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I use what I use for my vehicles, a good automotive finish wash with wax https://www.griotsgarage.com/home.do..._content=Brand
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Old 09-12-2018, 04:40 PM   #28
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When we lived in the Yukon, we had no problems with mould.
However now that we live in BC Campbell River, mould occurs on the exterior.

I wash it off with soap and water, works fine.
During the winter I keep a small electric heater running inside, works well.
As noted in the spring, wash the trailer and wax it.

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