Front Jacks
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trvlrerik
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I have had the same problem, if the battery on the trailer is not fully charged it creates a higher load on the electric motor, often causing the 30 amp fuse to burn out. If the battery is not charged fully I leave the truck plugged into the trailer and this helps. I also keep my spare fuse box in the front storage as I do still burn them up when I am raising the jacks nearing full extension. (We stop in a lot of places that are not very level).
beasleyrl
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We had the same issue on the first trip out. The dealer quickly replaced the fuse with an auto reseting breaker. I highly recommend this upgrade as you don't have to worry about the fuse again. It will simply stop working for about 10 seconds so you know it has blown then it resets. Mine has done that only about 3 times in 2 years but I've been glad it was there.
htneighbors
Unbelievably Blessed!
Mine has a fuse, too. Really like the auto-reset breaker suggestion. I checked the AMP draw on this little bugger, once upon a time. 30A fuse blew at about 52A when raising! 
truknutt
Committed Member
Better yet Dave, they should come standard with hydraulic jacks AND the Level-Up system!!
DW_Gray
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I agree with that 1000% I'm considering that mod for the future. Okay Heartland, I hope you're listening.
Woo hoo! I just became a Senior Member with my 100th post.
DW_Gray
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Sorry Bob, I'm not Landp but I had to respond. Now Bob I remember you telling me about a dumb question. That's not a dumb question.
I don't for the landing gear except I do use a one under each leg when directly on earth just to spread out the foot print. Just extend the primary legs about half way then extend the extension legs the rest of the way.
I do carry three 2"X8"X8'. I have one that's 8 feet long and the other two are cut; one 3 inches shorter and one 6 inches shorter. I use those for leveling under the three wheels on one side or one one each side on soft ground.
Hey Dave - Congrats Mr. Senior Member! And you didn't have to pay jimtoo anything to get there
For the current (2011) model year Cyclone, hydraulic front landing gear was made standard. We listened
And we continue to do so. Standard on Level Up or equivalent.... pretty sure we'll never see it standard, Daves (that's all yall) - but who knows what the next model year will hold for options
jimtoo
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Hey Dave - Congrats Mr. Senior Member! And you didn't have to pay jimtoo anything to get there
Dave,,,,I'm not sure how you got by, but congratulations on being a senior member and welcome to the society of seniors. This is where you join the CRS group,, also to the one's that change to a totally different subject in mid sentence without knowing it, (we have a couple on here). So congratulations on your status now... but just wait until you reach the next level. The price really takes a upgrade and we are looking and thinking about a 3670 BH but still have not decided on how to sell the 3055 that we have now... so until we make up our minds on whether we want a BH or Landmark is kinda up in the air. Did I ever tell you I used to jump out of air planes with a parachute? Yep did that a few times and it was a thrill.
Anyway, what were talking about??? Oh well...
Later my friends..
Jim M ? what's the M for??
Bob&Patty
Founders of SoCal Chapter
Hi Dave, how are you and the little woman doing. We havent talked for while. My only point is, that if you have to extend the legs a lot, your better off putting some lumber under the feet. This what I have found. The less you have to lower the legs..the more stable the front of the coach is. This is to say, not as much movement when walking around. I do, however, run the main part of the legs down farther. That way the telescoping part has less wiggle room, if you get my drift. Just my thoughts on the matter. BTW, congrads on making it to the old farts (senior member). You might just get as old as Jimtoo someday. Bob
DW_Gray
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Hey Dave - Congrats Mr. Senior Member! And you didn't have to pay jimtoo anything to get there
For the current (2011) model year Cyclone, hydraulic front landing gear was made standard. We listened
Standard on Level Up or equivalent.... pretty sure we'll never see it standard, Daves (that's all yall) - but who knows what the next model year will hold for options
Thank you. I'm glad I didn't have pay anything this time.
Hydraulics become standard on 2011. That's outstanding! I hadn't really looked at the latest models to see what's happening. Besides, Amy and I are having so much fun in our Cyclone we don't look at the future. I do hope there will be few new Cyclones in Nashville.
DW_Gray
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Hi Bob, Amy and I are doing great. We continue to travel. We've been Florida now for over a month looking for some warm weather. I think we finally found some. We are at MacDill AFB now (Tampa). We hope to head north in 3 or 4 weeks before heading to Nashville. I haven't had much stability problems on the front end. I wish there were better stability on the rear end though. Even with the rear stabilizers down it's not as stable as I'd like to have it. It's better than nothing but I would like to see some improvement somehow. I tried a couple of stabilizer jacks but that didn't make much difference. Those may work well on small RVs but not a Cyclone. Old, no way. Becoming old is not in my nature.
Bob&Patty
Founders of SoCal Chapter
Dave, next time you park try this, it seems to help a little. Leave the front down just a little, a wee bit, put your blocks under the rear stabilizers and run then down tight. The raise the front of the coach up to level. See if that makes any difference. Most of the bounce and sway is the suspension and tires and thats hard to stop. Did you see the setup that Arthur had on his BH at the last rally we had? He swears that it made a difference. Bob
DW_Gray
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Thanks Bob. I will try that tomorrow carefully. There is a caution in the owner's manual not to use those for load bearing. Yes, I remember what Arthur did.
Hmmm..... now I have another idea. I'll look into that this week and see if that may work.
Dave,
Another way to do this would be to level just a touch nose-high, then put down the rear stabilizers until they hit the ground and run them until you see the back end of the coach begin to raise up slightly. You aren't really lifting it off the ground, just pushing the nose down a bit. With the last 2 leveling systems I've had, the rear stabilizers are to be put down last. In fact, with the current leveling option on Landmark, the rear stabilizer come down automatically - yet, they come down after the coach has been leveled and surprisingly, they come down and take more pressure off the back than I was ever doing manually. Sure - they are for stabilizing, not leveling, but they can take some decent pressures. Have fun.
Jim
Another way to do this would be to level just a touch nose-high, then put down the rear stabilizers until they hit the ground and run them until you see the back end of the coach begin to raise up slightly. You aren't really lifting it off the ground, just pushing the nose down a bit. With the last 2 leveling systems I've had, the rear stabilizers are to be put down last. In fact, with the current leveling option on Landmark, the rear stabilizer come down automatically - yet, they come down after the coach has been leveled and surprisingly, they come down and take more pressure off the back than I was ever doing manually. Sure - they are for stabilizing, not leveling, but they can take some decent pressures. Have fun.
Jim
DW_Gray
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Thanks Jim, unfortunately the bad news is my stabilizers aren't functioning at 100%. They were slightly damaged coming out of a service station last September. That's another story. Anyway I can extend them but the motor will lock up if I extend them too far. I think Bob's suggestion may work better. I'm going to try that now.
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