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Originally Posted by CWSWine
If you have a motorhome with airbags and drop them to the internal stops then hit auto level lifting the motorhome more than inch or two most of the chassis weight is on the jacks and tires are still firmly planted on the ground support the weight of the axle only. If the hill is steep enough that my motorhome on jacks would slide down the hill I won't be able to get it even close to level.
Now a 5er. We were doing wheel weights on 5er and decided to drop it and hit 6 point auto level. The tires on the 5er seemed to be in full contact with the ground but they're only 1700 pounds left on all four tire positions added together. The 5er GVW was close to 15,000 pounds so 13,300 was being supported by the jacks.
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Line service boom trucks are often worked with the drive axle off of the ground in order to get the truck level enough to operate, especially the REA type trucks. They will tie off, but do not take up all of the slack because they want to know if the truck starts to move, and they always point uphill so the drive axle comes up first.
Like I said, optics.
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Kelly and Jerry Powell with Halo (Lethal White Aussie), Nash the Rat Terrorist, and now Reid, the "Brindle we have no idea puppy"
2020 Grand Design Solitude 390RK-R
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