Quick Leveling January 18, 2001, 10:22:42 pm Yahoo Message Number: 1662Some of you folks missed out on the leveling demo that is part of the delivery experience when you pick up a new LD.Here's what we picked up during our delivery and used with our old rig:Level the rig using a bubble level in the referigerator.With the rig level, place fore/aft and left/right (cheap) levels where the drive can see them. Glue them on level.Use two ramps to level the rig.Look at the levels and figure out which corners are the lowest and must be raised.Set the park brake and put the transmission in park.Put one of the ramps in front of the tire on the lowest corner; make this ramp touch its tire. Place the other ramp in front of the other low corner; pull it away from the tire an amount that experience will make easy to set. The two ramps will both be on one side or one end of the rig.Get back in the rig and drive up the ramps until the driver-compartment levels are centered.Note that in vintage C-30s, the lowest gear is first, not reverse; that's why you pull forward to level.Set the park brake, select park, kill the engine.You'r done and quit in less than 1/2 a minute.With our 22' with a 144-inch wheelbase, we made ramps of wood that are 7-in high. Only once did we have to dig out the high side or shim up the ramps. We'll probably want taller ramps for the new, longer rig.bob phillips Oxford, MI
Quick Leveling Reply #1 – January 19, 2001, 10:35:18 am Yahoo Message Number: 1670"...Note that in vintage C-30s, the lowest gear is first, not reverse; that's why you pull forward to level."Interesting, I wasn't aware of this, but it does explain a lot.Usually we do pull forward, mostly because we are pulling forward into the site, and because it is often a tiny one in some remote area where we have to pull all the way in to get further off the road.We don't use ramps, though. We use stepped blocks I made, so the tire sits on a level surface - a level change in increments of 1.75". Even pulling on backward, I'm not too worried about transmission strain with this type of block. Interestingly, our m'home came from the previous owner with ramps of hardwood as you described, which I leave home.I have found with the experience time brings, I just pull into a site, Nancy reads out to me from a portable bubble level on the counter, I pull back a couple feet and know just the right blocks to put where, with about 90% acuracy the first try. This gets us level enough for comfort inside and the fridge works fine.One gadget that has been on the market a few years interests me, and please post if anyone has tried it. It is an aluminum ramp with a curved surface top and bottom - the bottom a larger radius - and it rotates in a vertical plane as you drive up the thing. This should be much easier to use, I would think, than a regular ramp. A picture of the item is at: [url=http://www.lazydazeowners.com/[url=http://www.campingworld.com/shop/products/index.cfm?type=product&skunum=14035Steve
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