Re: additional stabilizer jacks
If you use only the front jacks, you are still on the "live" suspension. In order to stabilize you will need a minimum of four points of contact under tension to the ground to lose that rocking feeling.
As far as location goes, most campers add jacks to the rear of the back axle. Many rigs have jacks at the back corners by the bumper, if you go this route with jackstands, or permanently mounted jacks, I've found that worked best for me was to get close to level, but nose down. Deploy the rear jacks, then use your front jacks to rock the weight back onto the rear jacks. The idea is to basically "lift" the weight partially off of the axle springs. Depending on how stable you want to go, I've also seen people with tripods under the 5th hitchpin, and special wheel chocks that wedge between the front and rear tire at the midpoint (3:00 / 9:00) that, when tension is applied, acts like a parking brake, and keeps the wheels from "squirming" independently of each other.
Our current rig has six way hydraulic leveling, but even with that, after a day or two, we get some movement as thing settle. The only sure way to eliminate all motion, is to jack it up until all four are in the air, and put cinder blocks everywhere... kinda like a doublewide...LOL!
Good Luck!
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