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04/7/2017 at 11:14am
Location: Blackpool
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If your caravan does not have auto level -
To level the caravan side to side you should buy a ramp from a caravan shop. They are not expensive.
To level your van - You do this whilst the caravan is still attached to the car. Put the van where you want it. Put the ramp under the lower wheel then drive forward slightly until caravan is level.
Then everything else people have suggested.
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04/7/2017 at 3:20pm
Location: N Wales
Outfit: Hymer Nova 590GL
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It's best to call them steadies rather than legs or jacks because that's what they should be used for.
My leveling ramp looks like one of these. Ramp. I'm a bit vague because I think I paid a couple of quid at a carboot. I still have the wooden ramp that my dad made about 45 years ago out of scrap wood. Other people use pieces of scaffold board It's a case of whatever works for you. Sometimes I pull onto a ramp and sometimes I back on that doesn't make any difference anyway.
We do a lot of rallies on fields so levelling is the norm we have got to the stage where we can almost level the van without thinking it's just practise. It doesn't make you perfect it does make you quicker.
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06/7/2017 at 3:37pm
Location: Northern Ireland
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Of course, it's frequently impossible to keep the van hitched to level it.
Many pitches, especially on the continent, require unhitching and then moving the van into position, either by hand or with a mover ...
Winding steadies down is easier using a battery powered drill ... set to the right output. it'll wind down the steadies and do the 'extra half a turn' automatically.
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