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Old Mar 30, 2019 | 08:01 AM
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Auto leveler height.

Our 5ver has the Lippert Ground 4 point leveling system. As delivered, when doing a 'auto level' sometimes the wheels/springs have very little load, especially of site is not so perfectly flat. I manually lower the 5ver a bit when this happens to place more load on tires/springs.
I have not tried to do a new Zero Point Calibration. When on a level site, about how much pressure should be on springs/tires?
 
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Old Mar 30, 2019 | 09:08 AM
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Why lower 5th wheel to put more load on spring/ tires? If you set up the auto level to be level from the start it's doing what it should do. The legs from the leveling system will carry the load.

There are times when one side of our 5th wheel tires will be off the ground but the trailer is level. If you don't want wheels in the air add some level bubbles to the trailer and drive on some blocks before auto leveling.
 
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Old Mar 30, 2019 | 03:18 PM
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I would level it and be done. Don't worry about it. Those legs are designed to take the load.

BTW going through the calibration process is not a fun thing to do either.
 
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I would level it and be done. Don't worry about it. Those legs are designed to take the load.

BTW going through the calibration process is not a fun thing to do either.
Not Page 17 https://www.lci1.com/assets/content/...CD_0001519.pdf
Use the leveler after you set Zero. The shorter the legs the less wobble. I use my old lego blocks to shorten them, small stack under each.
 
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Originally Posted by scraprat
If you don't want wheels in the air add some level bubbles to the trailer and drive on some blocks before auto leveling.
That is what I do.
 
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Old Apr 2, 2019 | 06:47 PM
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Been a lot of times I’ve had some wheels off the ground with auto level.
 
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