How To: Level a dual axle caravan with independent suspension
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Learn from our mistakes, if like us you went from towing box trailers and boats straight to a large off-road caravan, the thought of levelling the van may concern you.
After 6 months on the road, we are getting the hang of it.
Feel free to reach out to us via our socials or comment below if you have any questions, this is what works for us, some others may do it differently.
Safe Travels!
It does help... a newbie here. Thanks guys!
Your welcome!
Actually it can make a difference, the safest option is to drive up onto the ramps so if your handbrake doesn't hold when you unhitch, the van will roll back (away from your vehicle and you) and not into the rear of your vehicle, or you.....just things you learn after many years of caravaning.... You will love the DO35 hitch it is quieter in operation and easier to hitch up....
Correct. I see lots of people reversing up on to ramps.
Well there you go, i did not know this, thanks for clarifying. We have never had an issue but will drive onto them from now on
Thank you so much for this info, we stood in Auto One today not knowing what to purchase so You Tubed your channel and got the answer.
Saved us time and $$ cheers for that 👍🏻
Oh awesome, thats exactly why we made that video, so tricky when your getting everything you need,so we are glad it helped.
Goodluck with your set up!
We always use walkie talkies and have spirit levels attached to the outside of the van we bought from US Amazon. I never lift off the ball with the chains detached as a rule. Once our caravan moved on us despite the handbrake.
Thats fair, we sometimes use walkie talkies but we have some good hand signals now.
The leaving chains attached is fair, we dont ever disconnect until its all chocked and handbrake aswell
Cheers guys great little video tips
No worries mate, i struggled to find a decent video on how to do it before we left so i made my own to help others
@@Ourwhittleadventure we hope to be starting our traveling journey after we sell our house. No plan just winging it 😬. And definitely will be noobs haha any tips are very useful. So now owning your van for a while are you still happy with the New age van ?
Awesome guys! You will love it.
Yeh still love the New Age van, has lived up to or exceeded all expectations for us.
Comfortable enough that we have just commited to another year in it 👌🏻 few things i would change if we did it again but stuff we are happy to live with for now
Great information trendsetters. Keep the videos coming.
Thanks John, it all seems so simple now but that first trip was alot of new information so want to try and help others
Thanks mate, what was the brand of those Ramps/levellers? Cheers
They are called Explore, i think you can get them an Super Cheap Auto
how do you find the plastic ramps stand up to the rocky ground?
We haven’t had a problem but we also just dig holes aswell if the ground allows to save using the ramps
HI, are you sure that tow ball shank is rated for your van,I have one and it's only,two ton rated due to being a two part setup with bolts,regards Rodney
Can get theses same hitches rated at 3.5t
Hey, yes it is rated. Thanks for asking
You didnt show where the breakaway cable was attached.
Its z big no no to attach to any part of the towbar if thats where you had it attached to.. Goid rule of thumb is to drive onto the leveling ramps not reverse onto them
Your right i did fail to show that, thanks for clarifying for viewers.
We were told that also when we picked up the van.
@@Ourwhittleadventure NA GC did the hand over on our MR er s/e and did the exact same thing.Used rattle gun to tighten all nuts didnt check the tourqe .
Happy travels
Oh right, not great. We had a really good handover from Perth. Only issue we had was wheel alignment when we got the van. Otherwise everything has been great. Just finished Oodnadatta track without an issue
Hi, what kind of levelers are this?
Just super chesp auto caravan levellers for tandem axle
@@Ourwhittleadventure i can´t find this, because it´s 2 parts of a leveler. I found only "normal" things.
@pixxmedia3698 try explore caravan leveller tandem pair as a search on super cheap website
@@Ourwhittleadventure Of course I've already done that. Why don't you just tell me what model you have? It's the easiest thing to do, instead of talking about it.
@pixxmedia3698 im sorry im not really sure what else you want from me.
Explore caravan levellers is the name of them, i purchased them from super cheap auto.
www.supercheapauto.com.au/p/explore-caravan-leveller-ramps---tandem-axle-pair/326651.html?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIvZvcmbnLhAMVQMAWBR2okg7tEAQYASABEgLe8fD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
Good video. You mentioned getting a DO35 Hitch. Man I suggest you have a look at the McHitch Auto Coupler system (czcams.com/video/fYRwV9byYT4/video.html) which in our opinion is far easier to use and (again in my opinion) better than the DO35. We've had it on 3 of our caravans.
Oh right, had not heard about that one.
Have had the DO-35 now for 6 months and have been really happy with it so far, but will remember that for future.
Cheers
I've had both McHitch and D035. In my opinion D035 wins hands down and is way better than McHitch