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Subject Topic: Levelling camplet Post Reply Post New Topic
PersonQwerty73
02/9/2012 at 5:27pm
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Can anyone offer any hints and tips to successful level a camplet.

Any help at all would help as its quite a conundrum rapped in a puzzle. I have tried using the jocky wheel to level back to front and the use the legs to level from side to side but I keep ending up with wheels off the floor and then when its unfolded the second bed section is always too high...!

I know I am probably being an idiot but it just seems almost impossible unless its on ver level ground.

Thanks D

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PersonJo123
02/9/2012 at 5:57pm
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I use the jockey wheel to level front to back - just approximately level is fine. Then I lower the steadies so they touch the floor (but no more than than that - you shouldn't raise the wheels at all). Then the bedroom legs I usually extend to the third hole. I find this works well on most ground - sometimes I adjust the bedroom legs, or put a small block under one of them if need be. I wouldn't get too obsessive about levelling TBH.

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Persongriff10553
02/9/2012 at 6:01pm
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Can`t comments on the best way to level a Camp-Let, but I would not raise the corner steadies so the wheels are off the ground.

Corner steadies are just that they steady the trailer at the corners and can be used to help level the trailer.

A Camp-Let owner will be along shorty for advise on best way to level your TT.

Griff


Personnaebother
02/9/2012 at 6:37pm
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We use blocks under the wheels to level from side to side, then use the jockey wheel to level front to back. This means the wheels are still on the ground for a bit of support.

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Personkate w
02/9/2012 at 6:39pm
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According to the Camplet instructions you're supposed to raise the steadies till the wheels are nearly off the floor. In practice i've found that I ignore the instructions and just try and get it level, but if you don't have them raised enough the Camplet wobbles. I did buy a small spirit level but have never remembered to take it with us. When levelling front to back I have found that if I get it a bit low at the tow bar end I feel sick during the night as i'm lying head down. I agree with Jo123, bed legs on the 3rd hole is usually about right, sometimes I've ended up with an extra bit of wood underneath one of them. It does need to be quite level side to side as if it's not the wardrobe bar won't fit.

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Personalisonme
02/9/2012 at 6:42pm
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The Camplet Instructions say that the steadies should be wound down until the wheels almost clear the ground, see here

However the first instruction in the book is 'find a level pitch'!

Have you got a jockey wheel? We found the best way with the Jametic is to drop the A frame a bit so the back of the trailer is ever so slightly higher then wind down the steadies, then use the jockey wheel to raise the A frame until its level.   Side to side you should probably put something under one of the wheels, but we always endeavour to position the trailer so that isn't necessary, because that would really be divorce material!.

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PersonMiserly
02/9/2012 at 6:43pm
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Unusually,the steadies on a camplet ARE weight bearing.On level ground,the wheels will just be touching the deck and almost all of the weight is on the steadies,with a smaller amount on the jockey due to the counter-balancing effect of the kitchen. However,it all goes a bit wrong on real campsites. Try to pitch in-line with the slope if possible,but when side on then it's ok to leave a bit of weight on one wheel and level to that. That should allow you to level the lid side. There is no way that you can get it perfect,so don't worry!


Personammdkids
02/9/2012 at 8:57pm
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We use a caravan leveller ramp under one wheel to get it level side to side and then jockey wheel for front to back. I use a spirit level to get it right as I hate sleeping on a slope. Unfortuately when on a slope the canvas doesn;t hang right though on our TT- trigano odyssee so on the holiday we have just returned from we ended up having to duck to get through the door and the canvas at the back was miles off the ground!


PersonDamonST
02/9/2012 at 9:40pm
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As Miserly says, trying to get it completely level in the real world is liable to send you off at the deep end.

If the wardrobe bar goes in, the canvas reaches the floor nicely at all four corners, the body is stable, things aren't sliding off the kitchen and you don't roll out of bed, count that as a win...

...or a miracle. Your pick.


PersonBridgelayer
03/9/2012 at 5:38pm
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An 18" length of 4x4 timber, cut corner to corner, lengthways will give you 2 wedges. (They sell plastic levellers in G.O. - at a price. Use a pair of 4x4x4 wedges as a chock on 1 wheel and spin the trailer so it rides up one of the long wedges, then chock that when you've got the trailer level. Then use your steadies. I've only tried it once and it worked fine.

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