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Originally Posted by Ribtip
We are out at our rec club this week. We do a halloween trick or treat for all the kids. I leveled the camper with the auto level and realized i was on an angle and should of pulled the left side up on some boards. The tires on the left came off the ground about 3/8 of an in. I said hell with it and left it. Is this ok for the camper dont know but it feels sturdy and i just left it for the week. Seems ok to me.
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Question: if you had driven the tires up on boards, how would that have impacted the hydraulic rams and the level up? As you raise the frame, those boards under the tires would not change the first opportunity of the frame to get level relative to the ground. If you put boards under the rams (to match the tires), that only shortens the stroke of the rams to find that first condition of level for the frame.
I'm sure others will disagree, but the only warning in my Lippert Owner's manual about tires being off the ground is in relation to being dangerous to get under the trailer for service work while using only the Level-Up system to elevate the trailers. There are no other cautions in my manual stating this is a bad thing.
One of their big marketing points is that their patented system is designed to lift the trailer by the frame (rather than the suspension) so as to NOT put stress on the chassis. With 2 ea 14K front jacks and 4 ea 8K rear jacks, the system has a total lifting capacity of 60K on my 17K trailer. When I am at home, I purposely raise the frame to put most or nearly all the weight on the Level-Up system in an attempt to relax the suspension & tires.
For years, we used to level the tires & suspension to attempt to get the frame level. Subsequent changes to slides and other load issues on the frame always impacted the suspension based level. With the LCI system, the connection is from the frame directly to the ground.
So, I don't have any precautions in my LCI paperwork that precludes parking with the tires off the ground (except for the warning about not doing maintenance under the trailer). My system is a 2018 - maybe they made subsequent changes, but I doubt it.