Hello,

I'm after some advice about positioning the jockey wheel. I seem to struggle with the correct height. Either I cannot get the caravan front end low enough to level because it is completely wound back into the shaft, or I cannot get enough height to wind it above the tow ball. (The height thing came to light when the mover was fitted and the engineer wound it totally down so he could get under the rear more easily, i.e. he dropped the caravan on its front end to get the back off the ground). Is there a trick to this I seem to be missing? Hope you understand what I am on about.

Thanks.

I have a small mark made with a Permanent marker on the tube which I line up with the clamp, this ensures I have enough leeway either way. It just makes it easy when you have to pull the jockey wheel up when in transit and then when you pitch up.

Thanks Poptop. I was thinking along those lines too. I just need to initially get it right. Do you have a photo of yours so I can see a rough starting point? (Having an Eriba is a big learning curve, but I think I am slowly getting there)

Quote: Randa france wrote in post #4

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If it's any consolation Philip, I think the jockey wheel on ours is longer than most yet I still can't get it right all of the time, even after 5 years. It's often a case of corner steadies down and a second bite at it.
Randa

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With a previous caravan, we were once directed onto a pitch where the warden had to get a spade and dig a hole around the jockey whelel in order to drop it enough to level the caravan. Result was that we had a huge step down from the door at the rear end and when it (inevitably) rained, the whole hitch mechanism was covered in gritty mud. Was I happy... No! But at the time, was happy to get on the site. Wouldn't settle for it now but hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Rob

We had a similar problem at Ayr park in St Ives the other week. Massive slope and the site expected me to prop the corner steadies and jockey wheel up on broken breeze blocks.
I expressed my displeasure and eventually we just got our money back and left.

Two weeks back when we were hitching up to take the Eriba to AL for service and mover fitted, I messed up, not having done it for many many months and the whole A frame dropped to the ground. I thought I had a jack in the garage, but darling son, golden balls as his sister calls him, has it in his garage and he was at work.
The neighbours didn't have one or were at work, I was 10.30am. Carole popped down the road and asked a couple of builders if they had one on their van. They didn't but they wandered back with her to see the trouble we had. They were thinking big white boxes and when they saw the cute little Eriba, one of them, a big B*g*e* just lifted the hitch up until we sorted it. Grateful thanks and lots of laughs.

I've done the same in the past Derek!
I know the steadies are not to be used as jacks but if you could wind the front ones down together or even simultaneous like, then the front of the van would be raised gently without twisting the frame thus allowing the jockey wheel assembly to be suitably punished and retrained!