RE: Yikes, how d that happen?

[CathyAnn]

 
While driving down the highway coming home from Inks Lake, all of a sudden we hear a funky scraping noise coming from the pop-up.  Luckily we were able to quickly pull over.  One of our stablizers came down!  The sucker not only came down, it locked in place!!!  Imagine what a disaster that could have been if we didn t catch it quick enough.  We took a good look and everything seems to be okay.  Hope it never happens again though.
 
 Have any of you ever had something like that happen?
 
 
 CathyAnn

[Gamecock Camper]

 CathyAnn
Your Skamper must have the spring loaded / flip down stabilizers.  The BAL crank-down levelers on mine wouldn t be able to do that.  I guess maybe they weren t locked in all the way OR they became loose from going over a (pretty severe) bump in the road..... That s my guess.

[JemJen24]

 CathyAnn
OMG!  That could ve turned out very bad!  Thank God everything s ok. whew! []

[wiininkwe]

 CathyAnn
Wow,  glad you noticed that strange sound right away.  Just think of what it would have sounded like if you had hit a bump or something!   I think you must have the same kind of stabilizers we have, and I have wondered if they could come down by themselves.  Now I know, and will tell Rick too, so that we will remember to always check them before pulling out.  Thanks for the heads up on this.
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[MtnCamper]

 CathyAnn
Have you ever greased, or oiled them? DON T!

[Trlrboy]

 CathyAnn
Our Rockwood used to have stabilizers that were the spring load type and when I put them up I had to make sure they " locked"  into place.  However, if you have the crankdown type, be sure that when you crank them up that they are firmly up in place with the crank handle.

[Acts 2:38 girl]

 CathyAnn
We have some friends who actually started towing thier camper [] and realized quiclky they forgot something!

[Acts 2:38 girl]

 CathyAnn
and,   no - it was not us!!!

[scpreacherswife]

 CathyAnn
So glad it wasn t worse than it was!  We have the old snap downs too, but I just bought 2 sets of the Olympian scissor jacks on Ebay to replace our old worn out fold out ones.  I look forward to the ease of using the crank down on any level of surface, and since I want to be able to use them myself in case husband can t come along, these seem perfect.  Hope yours stay up and in a the right position from now on-could have been a one time fluke![&:]

[Gamecock Camper]

 CathyAnn
After seeing this message again, I thought about what you could do about it to prevent it from happening again....... You can simply drill two small holes in the frame (paint them too so they don t rust) that will allow you to put a small bungee at a point that will prevent the stabilizers from coming down unless you want them too.  I m glad you are ok, but I d do something as it could have caused problems in manuverability and could have damaged or caused an accident......

[CathyAnn]

 CathyAnn
[]Thanks everyone for the replies!  Definately some good ideas and suggestions.
 
 I grately appreciate it.
 
 CathyAnn

[startx]

 CathyAnn
Hey Cous .  We had an experience on our way home too.  A blowout, just looks like the tire slung the belts on us.  Sure would be the trip too that Brian didn t check the spare before we left, so we limped along on a low spare for about three miles before we found a service station with working air.
 
 Now I have to replace the tire, and really don t like the prices I am being quoted!
 
 I m glad nothing bad happened to your camper, and glad Brian and I both heard the blowout right away!  No damage to the wheel well or anything thank goodness.

[CathyAnn]

 CathyAnn
Hey Cuz!!!
 
 We saw you guys getting out of the truck at KFC!  We were on the highway so you wouldn t have seen us!
 
 We need to plan a trip with you guys soon.  Just say when.  []
 
 Feel free to email me at Cathy_Ann31@hotmail.com