Auto level Cougar fifth wheel

[Shasta Bob]

Hello all, I was wondering if anybody has re leveled their fifth wheel after camping for a couple of days? using the auto level with slides out ? mine seams like it loosens up. any ideas?

[JRTJH]

Depending on what the auto level system does when you push the "start" button, I probably would recommend NOT to do it. If the auto level system drops the nose of the trailer, then levels from side to side, then from front to back, it's going to "twist the chassis".

If the slides are cable slides, they aren't attached to "anything" but "hang in the opening". If you start moving the trailer body, the slides are going to shift. If they shift and compress or pull on the seals, the seals may tear away or be damaged, If they shift and pull on the pulleys/cables, they may pull them out of the wall, break a cable or stretch something, causing a "misalignment".

If the slides are "electric ram or hydraulic ram" actuated, they may twist or bend the ram making it impossible to retract the slide or cause it to be misaligned and damage the seals or the slide/trailer when activated.

Now, if the auto level system only raises the trailer to "tighten up the slop" when you push the start button and there is virtually no "re-leveling" or significant movement of the trailer, then it's a risk you might consider....

BUT: If the trailer is going to be shifting, raising, lowering and redoing the process "start to finish", I wouldn't even consider it. Why not go to the manual function and just "tighten up what's loose" ???

[Canonman]

Never had to relevel the Cougar via the ground control 3.0. If I were to re-level, I'd go through the process as if I were reconnecting to the Ram. Slides in reconnect etc. Then let the system Auto Level. I agree with John, too many things can go wrong either leveling or re-leveling with the slides out.
Are you sure the problem isn't that the 5er is settelling? Rather than the jacks "loosening"?

[travelin texans]

If the RV settles then the jacks will be loose, not necessarily that they're leaking.
I had to tighten mine up several times, especially when parked on loose materials, did so by going into manual mode, just remember that when doing this you will have lost the re-hitch memory so it'll have to be done from manual mode.