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we have had this caravan since  feb 09.

we have just returned from our week away and yet again ( this has happened on our last few trips when towing ) while towing on the motorway or other raods our jockey wheel somehow drops this is very worrying and no matter how much we tighten it, it still seems to come lose and drop down we have to then stop on the hard shoulder and re tighten it.

this has never happened on any of our other caravans.

we are due to have our first service after christmas.

has anyone else had this problem and got any ideas if there may be a fault of somekind.

Possibly the shaft of the jockey wheel is slightly too small for the holding bracket so that you are tightening the bracket to its max without clamping tighter around the shaft.

Until your service take your jockey wheel off during travel

Yea Steve, that sounds about right. Although I must say that we had a brand new Bailey that kept doing that and we tried everything.  It was such a relief when we finally part exchanged it for our current Compas.

It will be interesting to know if you ever manage to find a cure.  Just be careful though, one time when ours dropped down we were up Scotland and before we could manage to pull off the road it had bent our jockey wheel shaft and damaged the jockey wheel its self. Fortunately without damaging the 'A' frame.

Good Luck,

Les Wilson.

A possible cause is that the wheel is unwinding, though the body is in place and tight! Some Williams trailers have an 'R' pin to locate the winder part to the body of the wheel to prevent this.

Best way to stop this happening is to wind the wheel fully into the body, tight, then lift the body and tighten the arm.

Is your jocky wheel needing to be wound back up or is the shaft dropping down and you have to unclamp and raise the shaft .

atb

Wizard

I had this happen once.

 I had a reel of velcro that sticks to itself, I now wind a length of this round the a frame and jockey wheel just in case.

John

Quote: Originally posted by wizard9956 on 29/10/2009

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Is your jocky wheel needing to be wound back up or is the shaft dropping down and you have to unclamp and raise the shaft .

atb

Wizard

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Quote: Originally posted by wizard9956 on 29/10/2009

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Is your jocky wheel needing to be wound back up or is the shaft dropping down and you have to unclamp and raise the shaft .

atb

Wizard

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the shaft is dropping down, so this needs to be unclamped and lifted again then retightened.

Quote: Originally posted by wizzo on 30/10/2009

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If it's an Alko make sure that the wheel has located in the two slots at the bottom of the jockey wheel tube before you locate it up into the A frame otherwise the wheel will wind itself down during transit.

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of course we do this ,

it is not unwinding it just drops with the clamp still tightly in place.

Quote: Originally posted by nora on 30/10/2009

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Quote: Originally posted by wizzo on 30/10/2009

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If it's an Alko make sure that the wheel has located in the two slots at the bottom of the jockey wheel tube before you locate it up into the A frame otherwise the wheel will wind itself down during transit.

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of course we do this ,

it is not unwinding it just drops with the clamp still tightly in place.

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