Help! My jockey wheel as pitched forward!
Need help quickly. I was setting up for the motor mover and had the steadies up (mistake).
My jocket wheel was set in a steel dish to stop it sinking into the grass I tried to lift it up to remove the dish from uderneath and it pitched forward! In a panic - what do I do?
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Thank you so much Huskydog - I thought I had broken it. The steadies are down they are about 8 inches from the grass at the front and about 19 inches at the back. So as long as they are down but uneven is it still OK to the jockey wheel thing? I've taken the motor mover switch out, but I still have the wheels engaged with the rollers. Will that be an extra brake so to speak?
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You only need to drop front steadies rosie so that you can slacken clamp. However I am at a loss to understand why you could not have tightened the red clamp. Wound jockey wheel to raise caravan nose, extended front steadies and wound jockey wheel up to remove bowl.
Mind I am a fella so daft.
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As long as the weight is taken by the steadies you'll be able to play with the jockey wheel. Having the van near level will give more stability but the mover rollers engaged with the wheels will provide a braking effect (assuming they are adjusted properly). Engage the handbrake as well.
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LOL! I have a feeling I am going to be on here quite a lot and keeping you all entertained!
I shot a little video going around the entire caravan showing all points of interest. Then I drove to the dealer where I bought it from (Sussex Caravan Centre, Ashington - cannot praise these people enough) played it to them and they told me to -
Raise the back steadies (as you said)
Keep the clamp tight and wind the jockey wheel up - i think he said clockwise - is that right?. Eventually the front steadies will also come up, then I can do the levelling thing.
I am not touching anything else until my friend comes tomorrow to help me move it to storage (that's a whole new story too!)
Thank you again everyone. I look forward to the day when I can actually give advice back. The only thing I can advise now is where to get pretty battery operated fairy lights for the interior.
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Rosie. As I said on your post about access, I am fairly local to you and when I get back from my long trip in July I would be happy to come and run through any problems/questions you may have. Where are you going to store your caravan; not easy to find in this area.
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Hi comeyras.
Thank you for that, much appreciated. The compound is here
The very nice lady owner showed me around today, quite a few caravans stored there. She also mentioned somewhere in Steyning but that was hard to get into apparently - I'll get the name from her when we take the caravan up tomorrow.
Where are you off to on your travels?
BTW I thought my last post had gone through, but got the steadies now back on a somewhat even keel!
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It looks from the photo that the jockey wheel has hit the underside of the A frame, which has stopped it going lower. Fortunate, because if it had caught the fibre glass surround it would have damaged it. As others have said, you should just be able to tighten the clamp and raise it back up. Then wind down the front steadies.
Ours currently looks very like yours by intention. This site is rather sloping and it was the only way we could get the van anyway near level.
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