Here are 3 tips to help winding down the stabiliser legs. The idea is to make it easier, quicker and avoid having to get on your knees.
The pictures will tell it all, but basically you insert your battery drill which has a socket attached into the plastic tube (so it locates the screw head), then hook the wire to the hole you've drilled in the foot with your left hand and then pull the wire so it extends the foot whilst with your right hand operate the drill. As the leg goes down, the foot is kept parallel to the ground. Sounds complicated but once you've done it once or twice you do it without thinking. (I get into a lot of trouble doing things when not thinking!!)
None of the ideas are original, just putting them together.
Good Luck.
-- Edited by hako on Friday 25th of October 2013 11:30:13 AM
I use a drill to do this but the lead in is a good idea The wire I,m unsure of the use as the big feet fold out of the way when the legs come up to dock
hako said
04:29 AM Oct 30, 2013
My big feet do not always lay flat as you lower the leg and the foot meets the ground resulting in the foot not laying flat on the ground, so the wire is used to keep the foot parallel to the ground as the foot lowers. Maybe this is just a problem on my van. I've seen others who have removed these 'big feet' as they hit the ground when transversing driveways.
Regards
Wombat 280 said
02:55 PM Oct 30, 2013
Have seen vanners who have folded up then drop downs towards the front and they have dropped down while traveling and goodbye arse end of the van and drop down. Thanks for the explanation of the wire didn't understand the reason before
ShortNorth said
05:30 AM Oct 31, 2013
hako wrote:
My big feet do not always lay flat as you lower the leg and the foot meets the ground resulting in the foot not laying flat on the ground..................,
Denis, you'll just have to take more care when you step out of your tug
hako said
04:05 PM Oct 31, 2013
Brian, that's not my only problem - thought I'd be smart and reduce the size of the table in the Avan...make it easier to get in or out of the seats - works great, however as I'm over 6ft my skull now contacts the side of the "A" over the table unless I take care., and I don't always take care! Alineritus?
Regards
Denis
Here are 3 tips to help winding down the stabiliser legs. The idea is to make it easier, quicker and avoid having to get on your knees.
The pictures will tell it all, but basically you insert your battery drill which has a socket attached into the plastic tube (so it locates the screw head), then hook the wire to the hole you've drilled in the foot with your left hand and then pull the wire so it extends the foot whilst with your right hand operate the drill. As the leg goes down, the foot is kept parallel to the ground. Sounds complicated but once you've done it once or twice you do it without thinking. (I get into a lot of trouble doing things when not thinking!!)
None of the ideas are original, just putting them together.
Good Luck.
-- Edited by hako on Friday 25th of October 2013 11:30:13 AM
Regards
Denis, you'll just have to take more care when you step out of your tug
Regards
Denis